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

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

From Excel Tips by CPA Australia

October 1, 2025 · 14 min

About this episode

This episode explores the latest Excel updates that enhance productivity and simplify workflows for finance and accounting professionals.

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: H ow to use TRIMRANGE for flexible range selection W hat's new with pivot table formatting and an exciting update on auto-refresh H ow the TRANSLATE function works for multilingual data T he s implified syntax for BYROW and BYCOL functions H ow 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 v i deo and Excel file will go into more detail to demonstrate these techniques. R ead more of Neale's Excel articles on INTHEBLACK . You can find a CPA at our custom portal on the CPA Australia website. Would you like to listen to more Excel Tips episodes? Head to CPA…

People in this episode

Host: Neale Blackwood CPA

Topics covered

  • Excel updates
  • productivity
  • finance
  • accounting
  • data analysis

Keywords

  • TRIMRANGE
  • pivot table formatting
  • auto-refresh
  • TRANSLATE function
  • BYROW
  • BYCOL
  • Regex functions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CPA Australia

Books & works: Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants

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