Maximize Excel: Intro to Macros Part 2
Presented by David H. Ringstrom, CPA
 
Event Date/Time: 12/19/25 3:00 PM Eastern
Duration: 100 minutes
 

In this presentation author and Excel expert David H. Ringstrom, CPA cherry-picks 10 of the best features in Excel that can make accountants more productive. He'll also share 3 common time-wasters that can frustrate accountants and heavy users of Excel. You'll learn about two key worksheet functions, the benefits of the Table feature, pivot tables for report writing, and managing information overload by filtering. Tame unwieldy workbooks by instantly unhiding all hidden worksheets, and then deploying Excel's Custom Views feature to enable you to hide/unhide multiple worksheets at once. You'll see how to build in some insurance against Excel crashes, and quickly identify duplicates within a list. David will also discuss three common timewasters/frustrations in Excel.

David is the author of “Microsoft Excel 365 for Dummies”, “Exploring Microsoft Excel’s Hidden Treasures”, and has written or co-authored six other books. He demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in the subscription-based Excel for Microsoft 365. David draws your attention to any differences in Excel 2021, 2019 or 2016 during the presentation and in his detailed handouts. The handouts include an Excel workbook with most of the examples he uses during his demonstrations.

Excel for Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based product that receives periodic feature updates. Conversely, perpetually licensed versions have year numbers in their names and do not receive any feature updates.

Who should attend: Professionals seeking to use Microsoft Excel more effectively.

Topics typically covered:

• Choosing the proper file workbook format to preserve macros within Excel workbooks.

• Exploring Excel’s Goal Seek feature, which can be used to solve for a single missing input.

• Discovering a situation where the macro recorder can introduce errors into a macro under certain circumstances.

• Executing Excel macros one line of code at a time when needed to understand how the macro works or debug problems in the code.

• Providing feedback to a user by way of the MsgBox method within a macro.

• Understanding syntax errors within Excel macros.

• Triggering and then resolving compile errors within Excel macros.

• Viewing the programming code for recorded macros.

• Discovering the array of form controls available within Excel.

• Enabling the hidden Developer menu in Excel to access additional functionality.

• Creating custom views that will enable you to display all worksheets in a workbook at once as well as hide/display selected worksheets.

• Creating a PivotTable to transform lists of data into on-screen reports.

Learning objectives:

• Identify the menu tab that can be enabled to access additional tools related to macros.

• Identify the location of the Goal Seek command within Excel's menu.

• Compare the difference between objects and methods in an Excel macro.