50+ new Excel features so far this decade

As we’re half-way through the decade (yes time does fly), David Benaim will go through a whistlestop tour of the most important functions, commands and tools to have hit Excel in the 2020’s so far.
So many Excel enthusiasts are highly familiar with classic Excel features, but many of the stalwarts have actually been superseded by better features, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, commenting, SUMPRODUCT, LEFT/RIGHT. New cell-based data types including checkboxes, images, geography, currencies are useful, new formula audit techniques plus AI is also now nested to Excel in several ways, and Excel has made strides for simultaneous editing and collaboration, for example the ability to check, cell by cell, who edited what and when.

• Understand how to  keep up to date with Excel’s regular release of new features
• Learn how to make use of Excel’s latest capabilities across all fields
• Learn why some Excel features should be replaced by newer capabilities
• Learn why XLOOKUP should replace VLOOKUP and INDEX MATCH
• Learn how to use the best tools for 2025, leading to more streamlined solutions with fewer errors
• Understand how to maximise automation using the most up to date featurs 

• Dozens of brand new functions such as XLOOKUP, TEXTSPLIT, ARRAYTOTEXT, UNIQUE
• New analytics tools such as formulas which acts like Pivot tables or Python integration
• Data entry upgrades through searchable dropdowns, images inside cells, checkboxes and built in exchange rates
• Collaboration tools for simultaneous editing in Excel desktop and accessibility improvements
• AI features introduced to Excel not only copilot but other auto-analysis, formula writing features
• New tools for formula auditing, navigation, shortcuts or data clean up

Many consider themselves Excel experts when they can use the classic Excel features very well, but are unfamiliar with some better features which have been released recently.
Excel releases new features monthly so it can be difficult to keep up with every feature, and so David breaks it down in a fast paced digestible format that users of all levels can benefit from.

This is best applicable to anyone using Excel for more than 30 minutes per day at work. Although any office worker could benefit, those who work in finance or analytics would probably benefit the most.

David Benaim is considered by Microsoft to be in the top 100 or so Excel users worldwide by holding the Microsoft MVP award, he has a YouTube channel with tech tutorials with over 18,000 subscribers under his name David benaim and does 50+ webinars/presentations per year on Excel/public speaking. 

David keeps up to date with new Excel features so much that he contributes to every official Microsoft Excel monthly blog post and he also runs Xlconsulting where he assists with process automation and analytics via Excel.