Excel reaches its 40th anniversary in 2025, yet its relevance in Australian workplaces has never been greater. Despite the rise of specialised business intelligence tools, Excel remains the backbone of corporate operations, with 83% of job postings for clerical and administrative roles explicitly requiring proficiency. For professionals seeking to advance their careers, understanding Excel's evolution from simple spreadsheet to AI-powered business intelligence platform is essential and structured learning through a strategic pathway delivers measurable results.

Explore the new standard in Excel lookups with this deep dive into XLOOKUP. Covering key features, advanced formula options, side-by-side comparisons, and real-world business case studies, this guide helps you automate, analyse, and future-proof your data workflows. Perfect for corporate users aiming to save time and reduce errors in their spreadsheets.

Discover Excel tips that go beyond basics. Learn how to build interactive dashboards, automate reports, and use powerful formulas that set you apart in any role. Whether you’re in admin, finance, marketing, or project management these are the Excel skills that impress.

Excel and Power BI are both incredibly useful data science tools and if you are starting out your career in data science, they will give you a solid foundation. You can get amazing interactive dynamic reports with Power BI but at times you do need static reports that require copying data from Power BI to Microsoft Excel. This can be a confusing process, especially for a beginner...

A Financial Analyst uses financial data to predict business outcomes which help their organisations make better business decisions.

Knowing how to effectively use Excel is a game-changer in workplace productivity, so it's time to ask the question: What is the best way to learn Excel online? Find this and other FAQs here

Discover the art of Excel Power Maps to take your data visualisation to the next level, whilst gaining new and valuable insights in doing so. 

The team at Microsoft is always implementing new tools to make sure your important data is properly integrated into your digital systems. Read on for three simple, yet smart features that help make this happen.

Pivot Tables are one of the most powerful tools in Excel. A Pivot Table is a table of statistics that summarises data from a more extensive table. Here’s a quick overview of how to create your own Pivot Table.

Drop-down lists are a great way to work as efficiently as possible with data entry in Excel. This short guide will show you how to make your own custom drop-down list in five easy steps.

Tracking a series of related tasks against time is a process we perform often in both the workplace and in other aspects of our lives.

Visual Basic for Applications is a derivative of the programming language Visual Basic. Each Office application has its own particular kind of VBA depending on the objects and operation of the application.

Financial modelling is a skill that requires planning, consistency and a deep understanding of the business problem being modelled. Here are 8 smart tips to get you started.

In an exponentially digitising world it's more important than ever for professionals to learn to code. Nexacu offers leading Excel Macros training.

If you are trying to automate an Excel spreadsheet using VBA programming the following tips and tricks will help you become more proficient.

If you are a Mac user and also delve into Excel then read on for some tips and tricks that could save you a ton of time!

I’ve been conducting Excel Courses for Excel Consulting for a couple of years now. Excel Intermediate is our most frequently offered course. In that course, Conditional Formatting seems to be the most favorite topic for most groups that I’ve come across.

Concatenate is one of the most effective ways of combining data in Microsoft Excel.