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Excel continues to add features and improve its experience for users,
particularly those finance professionals who want to dig into their
data and gain new insights.
Neale Blackwood CPA, founder of A4 Accounting, provides Excel
training, webinars and consulting services, and shares his knowledge
in a monthly column for INTHEBLACK magazine. The following slides
feature some of his recent articles.
Challenge yourself to learn something new in Excel from one of them.

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Can you convert an existing budget
into a forecast in Excel?
Can you use conditional formatting
to identify important information?
Why would you use icons and how can you
incorporate them into a spreadsheet?
Here are 11 handy demonstrations of
how to use Excel better.
CLICK THROUGH ON EACH SLIDE TO LEARN MORE FROM THE ARTICLE AND ACCOMPANYING VIDEO.

4. Converting a budget
into a forecast
Is it possible to convert an
existing budget into a forecast
in Excel? Yes, and this tutorial
will show you how.
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5. Excel’s Treasure maps
On a treasure map, X marks
the spot. When it comes to
mapping tables, Excel makes
its mark and can provide
treasure in the form of
identifying new relationships
and trends not apparent in
separate datasets.
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6. Allocating amounts
across months
Excel’s MOD function can
make your life easier when
you are drawing up budgets
and forecasts.
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7. How the Excel LEN
function helps you
allocate values
month by month
Sometimes you need to
allocate amounts to specific
months; this technique shows
how the LEN function works
in Excel.
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8. Excel reporting
dashboards:
how to make them
work for you
Reporting dashboards
are more popular than
ever. Here’s how to
get the most out of
Excel reporting
dashboards.
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9. How to use a
PivotChart to create
interactive Excel charts
There are a number of ways
to create an interactive chart
in Excel. The quickest and
easiest way is to use a
PivotChart.
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10. How to do conditional
formatting in Excel
Conditional formatting in
Excel enables you to apply
a format to a cell or range
of cells, so you can identify
important information.
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11. How to use Excel’s
message box feature
When you record a macro
in Excel, you create a
repeatable set of
commands in a language
called Visual Basic for
Applications (VBA).
Here’s how to add
basic interaction to
a recorded macro by
using message boxes.
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12. How to use Excel’s
IF function
A new logic function has
been added to Excel 2019.
Learn how to use the
IF function to build
decision-making into
your spreadsheets.
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13. How to use icons
in Excel
Using icons in Excel
spreadsheets enhances
your ability to get your
message across. This
step-by-step tutorial
shows you how.
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14. Hitting the slope
charts in Excel
The slope chart is a popular
way to compare past and
present performance in Excel.
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15. More resources from CPA Australia:
• Recorded webinars
• Workshops
• Online courses
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