Here are all the new Excel blogs and webinars from the Excel Community in October 2025.
Webinars
Excel Lunch and Learn Series: Discovering the underappreciated gems within the Excel Ribbon | Formulas and Data
A guided tour of the lesser known but incredibly useful features and functionality tucked away in the Excel ribbons.
What’s new in business tech
Discover how to increase productivity across Excel and other applications you use daily.
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.
Blogs
Excel Community round up – September 2025
Here are all the new Excel blogs and webinars from the Excel Community in September 2025.
Excel, Teams, Google Sheets, Chat GPT, M365, Power BI, Canva, Zoom ++: New tech features for June-Sept 2025
David Benaim’s digest of new features across Microsoft 365 and other business tech products in written, images and video format.
Controlling your icons with conditional formatting
Sometimes using too many colours and too many different icons can have the opposite effect to that intended, obscuring the information rather than drawing attention to the key points. We’ll look at how to avoid this issue when using Icon Sets.
Running totals in filtered tables
In this article, Liam Bastick considers the problem of ensuring running totals still work, whether an Excel table is filtered or not.
Making conditional formatting more interactive and more automatic
This time, Simon Hurst will make use of the extra flexibility that putting the value in a cell allows us and use an Excel Spin Button to set the value more easily.
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Archive and Knowledge Base
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