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Tom Urtis

@TomUrtis

Microsoft Excel MVP, Excel skills testing, project developer, trainer, author. Stanford & Michigan State athletics.

 San Francisco, CA
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Here is Microsoft’s What’s New in Excel blog for October 2026, for naming Tables at creation in XL for Windows, and Copilot can-do’s for data skills. techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
What's New in Excel (October 2026) | Microsoft Community Hub

What's New in Excel (October 2026) | Microsoft Community Hub

Welcome to the October 2026 edition of What's New in Excel!

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Showing formula syntaxes that return the count of days between today and a future date.
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Using a keyboard shortcut to quickly paste special for values a range of formulas into a range of static constants.
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Keyboard shortcut to select the next or previous worksheet.
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Identifying the source row and listing a selected record's contents of a ListBox having vertical field dividers.
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Showing a vertical divider between ListBox fields without affecting the worksheet or source data range.
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Parsing a string at the position of the first numeric character.
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Reordering field locations in a VBA array.
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Selecting all worksheets as a group, or deselecting all but one worksheet.
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Selecting more than one worksheet as a group.
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Showing your active window's named ranges by setting its Zoom property to 39% or less.
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Reordering field locations in a VBA array.
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Operating with the last number in a dynamic list.
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Showing elapsed times with custom formats for hours, minutes, and decimalized sums.
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Extracting text between character sets of differing types, lengths, and instances.
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Open a new Word document from Excel with this macro.
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Listing incremental cell values into a contiguous range, using two function alternatives: OFFSET and INDEX.
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Many will argue #Excel is NOT a database.🥊 But, at our Nov 5 Vancouver #PowerBI and Modern Excel meet-up, Richard Nero will show how in a few clicks you can turn Excel workbooks into cloud based #SQL databases that fuel #AIAgents. Sign up here to join us: meetup.com/vancouver-power-b…
Excel as A Database and AI Agent Fuel | Richard Nero, Thu, Nov 5, 2026, 9:00 AM | Meetup

Excel as A Database and AI Agent Fuel | Richard Nero, Thu, Nov 5, 2026, 9:00 AM | Meetup

**SESSION TRACK:** Excel **SESSION OUTLINE:** Many will argue Excel is not a database. Well, Microsoft MVP Richard Nero will show how in a few clicks you can turn Excel wo

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Counting multiple criteria in more than one criteria range.
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Looking up the max (or min or average) for each unique item in a list.
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