Lynda Excel Tutorials - Dungeon Review

Greetings once again children of the night, today we shall take a trip to the wonderful 'Lynda' tutorial system or more precisely the 'Excel Section' of the system. Firstly I have a small bone to pick with the people who run 'Lynda' for not allowing an unlimited membership use option in the payment plans available, the closest to this they have is an annual billing choice of a measly $250 dollars or a monthly option of $25 a month (not that bad as it costs less than a college course! 'Another Review' (and some could argue is more effective than). But all costing nit-picking aside 'Lynda' is a fairly solid learning tool that almost anyone (excluding people without a computer) can pickup and use to their hearts content while keeping a steady pace of expanding their knowledge in not only 'Excel' but in its huge library of other programs (They have enough to warrant an A-Z library).

Now to keep things simple for all you scrollers I shall make a dot point style 'Pros' and 'Cons' list just for you!

'Dennis (The Master) Taylor' Lord of Excel

Pros:

• Easy to pickup and use
• Well developed Closed Captioning System
• Clean interface (GUI) (Graphical User Interface)
• Huge library of Software tutorials

Cons:

• Could use a little less 'Dennis Taylor' and a little more 'Morgan Freeman'
• May be a little better with a lump sum payment for unlimited use (for us, not them)
• Benefits could arise from adding interactivity to tutorials such as those found at 'Codecademy'
• Need good bandwidth speed to keep the videos consistent (don't feel bad, 'YouTube' has the same issue)

Anyhew, I hope you all found this to be interesting/eye opening and that you will all now approach 'Lynda' with a new view on what the best bits and the worst bits are, Now to avoid future rants on the subject please revisit this page to admire our lord and master Mr 'Dennis Taylor' at anytime in the future.

As always your faithful Dungeon Master :)