Refresh Your Excel Skills March 14

The National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Regional Reporters Association (RRA) will hold the next in a yearlong series of programs for reporters covering the 2012 campaign with a refresher course in Microsoft Excel.

The program will be held Wednesday, March 14, at 9:30 a.m, in the Bloomberg Classroom at the National Press Club.

Led by RRA board member Herb Jackson of The Record (Bergen County, NJ), the program will be a follow-up to last month’s Federal Election Commission (FEC)data diving class, but anyone who missed that class could still benefit.

Intended for those with some Excel skills who want to get better at importing, sorting and filtering data, the session will cover how to grab data from the FEC and other sites and use it in your story. The session also will spend time on the most powerful feature of Excel -- pivot tables and charts -- which tap the database management functions of the program.

Space will be limited, so reserve at [email protected].