Here are all the new Excel blogs and webinars from the Excel Community in May 2025.
Webinars
This webinar will give you a better understanding of using Power BI and its applications in Accounting.
You can find our archive of all previous webinars here, many of which remain exclusive to Excel Community and ICAEW members.
Check our list of upcoming webinars or refer to the latest newsletter to see what is planned for the rest of the year.
Excel Tips & Tricks
This Basic User level post explores the new focus cell functionality in Excel.
Excel Tips and Tricks #500 – get better at Excel
Over the last 10 years, we have covered a range of tips and tricks to help our community members make better use of Excel. In this special 500th tip, we cover how to master the learning process to get better at Excel.
Blogs
Excel Community round up – April 2025
Here are all the new Excel blogs and webinars from the Excel Community in April 2025.
Is Canva Sheets the new green?
The Canva Suite has become a force of nature with 1 billion designs being produced monthly, and now it finally launched Canva Sheets, but how does this compare to Excel or Google Sheets.
Comparing SUMIF, SUMIFS and SUMPRODUCT
Liam Bastick explains the use of three Excel functions commonly used for aggregating values based on conditions.
Excel, what’s occurin’ 9 – the wrong trousers
This part of the series moves on from Data Validation to lookup functions.
Excel, what’s occurin’ 10 – a date with PivotTable destiny
This part of the series moves on from lookup functions to dates in PivotTables.
Calculating dividends with MAX and MIN
MAX (and MIN) may be familiar to many Excel users, but it is still probably worth performing a recap (I haven’t discussed these functions for nine years!). As a model auditor, I do see errors made regularly due to misunderstandings made with how these two similar functions actually work.
Demystifying eta reduction in Excel
In this article, Mark Proctor looks at the concept of eta reduced lambdas. They may have a complex sounding name, but you don’t have to be an advanced user to apply them.
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