As we step into a new year, we’re delighted to welcome all our members to the growing Excel Community. With over 1,000 articles, over 490 tips, 4 thought leadership guides and an extensive archive of webinar recordings, we realise that it can sometimes be tricky to find what you’re looking for. So, here is a guide that you can use as a starting point to make the best use of your community.
Over the last year, the Excel Community has continued to grow significantly and now exceeds 36,000 members, establishing itself as one of ICAEW’s largest communities. Whether you’ve just joined or have been here for a while, this guide will be your starting point.
Our main page at icaew.com/excel, is split into relevant categories to make it easier to navigate the community and find relevant content. We explore the categories in more detail below.
Articles
You can read all the latest articles from the community in this section. We publish between 6 to 8 articles a month, that include a quarterly update on new tech and Excel features, articles to address your unanswered questions from webinars, and guidance for best practice in Excel.
Hints and Tips
This section is an index of 490+ Excel Tips and Tricks articles we have published since the community was first created. The index is split into topic and level, so you can filter and search what you’re looking for.
If you’re not sure where to start, take a look at our top 3 most popular Tips and Tricks articles:
- Excel Tip of the Week #440 - How to get better at Excel
- Excel Tips & Tricks #490 – Revisiting data entry shortcut
- Excel Tip of the Week #388 - Power Pivot: Filtering measures
Events and Training
In this section, you’ll find information about all our upcoming events, webinars and training. This page is regularly updated with events and webinars throughout the year, so make sure to keep a lookout!
Our most popular webinar series – ‘Excel Tips and Tricks Live: your questions answered’ is back in January. You can book your place to this webinar here.
Recordings
Here you’ll find an archive of most of our webinar recordings. So, if you were unable to join us live or need to revisit the content, the webinars are available for you to watch on-demand in your own time.
If you’re not sure where to start, take a look at our top 3 webinars from 2024:
- Power Tools Part 4: Build dynamic dashboards with Power Pivot
- Excel Tips and Tricks Live: your questions answered
- What's new in Excel and Sheets over the last year
Thought Leadership
Our major thought leadership publications cover guidance and best practice. Here you’ll find the updated version of our flagship 20 Principles for good spreadsheet practice, a competency framework, the financial modelling code, and guidance on how to review a spreadsheet.
Archive, resources and eBooks
We have an extensive archive of content which extends to our legacy ION platform. The archive section in the community, allows you to search the ION archive by keyword. You can also browse the archive index, or, for a more interactive experience, use this Power BI dashboard featuring all articles tagged by keyword, author and date.
If you’re looking for articles on a particular topic, you can use the resources section on the main page to access our Knowledge Base which provides you with access to all community content by topic.
We also have a list of useful resources and eBooks on Excel that are available online for ICAEW members and ACA students.
Get involved!
This year we launched a LinkedIn group for members to share tips and ask questions. You can join this group to find more resources, ask questions, and discuss areas of interest with experts and your peers.
We’re also keen to involve you, our community members, in our content. We have some plans in the pipeline, but in the meantime, if you have any suggestions for topics, or have an Excel problem that you’d love for us to help solve, please don’t hesitate to email us at excel@icaew.com. Here’s to 2025!
In case you missed it, you can take a look at our insights and highlights from last year, and plans for 2025 in this article - Your Excel Community – Highlights from 2024 | ICAEW.
Archive and Knowledge Base
This archive of Excel Community content from the ION platform will allow you to read the content of the articles but the functionality on the pages is limited. The ION search box, tags and navigation buttons on the archived pages will not work. Pages will load more slowly than a live website. You may be able to follow links to other articles but if this does not work, please return to the archive search. You can also search our Knowledge Base for access to all articles, new and archived, organised by topic.
