George Mount

Helping orgs modernize Excel for analytics, automation, and AI 🤖 LinkedIn Learning Instructor 🎦 Microsoft MVP 🏆 O’Reilly Author 📚 Sheetcast Ambassador

[George Mount @gjmount]

I’ve been building out something I call the Modern Excel Playbook, a store that brings together the same frameworks, workshops, handouts, and project materials I use with real clients. The goal is to offer a structured way to approach Excel, analytics, and AI so your work becomes more reliable, more scalable, and more deliberate.

You can begin with a few free, role-based guides to get a sense of what’s possible. From there, there are short quick win courses on topics like Python in Excel, Power Query, and AI workflows.

If you’re ready to go further, you’ll find in-depth handbooks, workshop recordings, and bundled trainings. There’s also a low-pressure monthly membership with new releases to help you stay current without feeling like you have to keep up with every feature update.

If you care about doing stronger, more thoughtful work in Excel, I’d invite you to take a look and let me know what you think: https://t.co/AsQNDevzSS

[George Mount @gjmount]

Look: Private Ohio island once owned by a U.S. president goes on sale for $5 million https://t.co/BtYCPHNIze

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Summer of George, Day 14:

Airport beer < expense-accounted airport beer < complimentary airport lounge beer < complimentary airport lounge Bloody Mary

[George Mount @gjmount]

LAST CALL: Modern Excel Magic in a Week starts this Monday.

If you spend too much time cleaning up messy data, fixing fragile formulas, rebuilding reports, or waiting on expensive teams and software to get answers from your data, this class is for you.

Modern Excel has come a long way. With tools like Power Query, Power Pivot, dynamic arrays, Python in Excel, and Copilot, you can build cleaner workflows, reduce manual errors, and get much more value from the software you already use every day.

This matters even more now that AI is becoming part of the Excel experience. The people who will get the best results from AI are not necessarily those chasing every new tool, but those who understand how to structure their data, ask better questions, and use Excel’s modern analytics features with confidence.

- Modern Excel Magic in a Week
- June 8-12
- 12 PM-1 PM Eastern each day
- Online
- Register: https://t.co/qhEoZMHoOw

You’ll get five live 60-minute sessions with me, a Microsoft Excel MVP, plus recordings, demo notes, a certificate of attendance, and a free ebook copy of my book, Modern Data Analytics in Excel.

We’ll move through Power Query for repeatable data cleaning, Power Pivot for stronger reporting models, dynamic arrays for better formulas, Python in Excel for advanced analysis, and Copilot for working more effectively with your data.

This is a practical way to modernize your Excel skills, make fewer spreadsheet mistakes, and put yourself in a much stronger position for the next wave of analytics work.

Sales end soon, and the class starts next week.

I hope to see you there!

[America250 @America250]

Only one month to go until July 4. 🇺🇸

From America’s Block Party to Giving 4th, this milestone is an invitation for every American to reflect on where we’ve been and take part in shaping what comes next.

The countdown to America’s 250th is officially on.

[George Mount @gjmount]

The Pub at Hopkins is so random. I just assumed it was like Hudson News, one of those generic airport fixtures that somehow exists everywhere.

Turns out, as far as I can tell, it’s basically one of a kind. Well, not exactly. It’s part of a Cincinnati-based chain: https://t.co/cd9YjWxaEs. But the website doesn’t even mention the airport location.

Airports really are a netherworld, aren’t they?

[George Mount @gjmount]

The real reason this NYC icon has disappeared

https://t.co/lgSTCLUhAd

[America250 @America250]

Our American Story is heading north to Springfield, Missouri on June 6! 🇺🇸

Find us at Cracker Barrel on North Glenstone Ave from 1-5pm to share your memories, stories, and traditions.

Every voice adds something meaningful as we look ahead to our nation’s 250th anniversary.

[George Mount @gjmount]

Excel Copilot Gets Personalization: AI Can Now Follow Your Preferred Spreadsheet Style https://t.co/7ZvEtNcdAY via @TheWinCentral

[George Mount @gjmount]

Summer of George, Day 13: Turns out that being on a flat grid makes the piano much more disposed toward VR than other instruments.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Meta mercifully spun out VR fitness game Supernatural instead of just killing it https://t.co/4X7huG9bXZ

[George Mount @gjmount]

GitHub Copilot Costs Skyrocket As Users Are Pushed to Per-Token Billing https://t.co/yt9NQnuKZk #PCMag

[America250 @America250]

Last week, Flag Sojourn made a meaningful stop in Tennessee. 🇺🇸

On May 27, the flag was received at the Tennessee Air National Guard’s Berry Field in Nashville by the Tennessee Department of Military, Tennessee America 250 staff and Tennessee State Museum staff.

[America250 @America250]

Rogers, Arkansas, you’re up next! 🇺🇸

On June 5, from 11-5PM, Our American Story is coming to Walmart on S. Pleasant Crossing Blvd in Rogers to hear from you.

Every family memory, hometown tradition and personal experience adds to the story of our nation. Stop by, share yours and be part of America’s 250th.

[George Mount @gjmount]

We are so back (I hope!) !

[The Verge @verge]

Supernatural isn’t dead after all https://t.co/TUAhVE3zwb

[George Mount @gjmount]

I'm very proud that, nearly a year and a half after launch, I've been able to keep the wheels turning on my LinkedIn Learning course, Excel with Copilot: AI-Driven Data Analysis... and it's now approaching 200,000 learners!

If you'd like to check it out for FREE, it's included in the Microsoft Copilot for Productivity learning path from Microsoft and LinkedIn Learning. You can complete the full learning path, earn a certificate, and download exercise files by signing in. Or, if you'd just like to explore the videos, you can watch them without logging in.

Check it out and feel free to share it with anyone looking to get more out of Copilot and Excel:

https://t.co/xHh73EAmDS

[George Mount @gjmount]

Meanwhile Power Query in Excel is broken in beta channel and the astronauts can't open either Outlook in space.

[OpenClaw🦞 @openclaw]

"You can run OpenClaw inside your company now." Annoucing our work with @Microsoft to bring OpenClaw to the Microsoft and Windows ecosystems. Claws now work securly in the enterprise.

[George Mount @gjmount]

LMAO the InTune policy settings actually refer to it as Clawpilot 😅 https://t.co/9EkJqdKAlO

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They couldn't help themselves 😅

Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent https://t.co/TAa2eSa6hk

[George Mount @gjmount]

NYC travel frequency status: I just keep a stack of postcards with me now and send them as I go. It's easier that way 😂

[George Mount @gjmount]

Summer of George, Day 12: Thank you to the 107.3 programming team for the opportunity to confirm that I have the lyrics to Cake's "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" memorized.