Smarter, faster, easier: Here’s what’s new in Excel

Excel Tips Summer Season
Encore presentation from October 2025

In this episode of Excel Tips, we explore the latest Excel updates that can help to boost productivity and simplify workflows for finance and accounting professionals.

Listeners will learn:

• How to use TRIMRANGE for flexible range selection  

• What's new with pivot table formatting and an exciting update on auto-refresh  

• How the TRANSLATE function works for multilingual data  

• The simplified syntax for BYROW and BYCOL functions  

• How three new Regex (regular expressions) functions can use patterns to identify data. 

Packed with practical insights, this episode helps you explore Excel's latest upgrades to save time, improve analysis and elevate decision-making. 

Tune in now. 

Host: Neale Blackwood CPA. He has more than 20 years of experience as a Microsoft Excel educator and is the author of more than 200 INTHEBLACK articles as well as a book, Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants. 

The companion video and Excel file will go into more detail to demonstrate these techniques. 

Read more of Neale's Excel articles on INTHEBLACK.  

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