Accelerate Excel: Disaster-Proofing Spreadsheets
Join this Webinar to Master Tricks Required to Quickly Decipher Even the Most Complex Formulas in Any Spreadsheet.

Instructor :
David Ringstrom
Webinar ID:
2385
Date: MAY 12, 2025 (MON)
Start Time: 10 AM PT - 11:30 AM PT
Duration: 90 Mins
What you will learn
- Identify the button within the Scenario Manager dialog box that allows you to apply a given scenario.
- Identify the command within the Tools menu within the Save As dialog box that enables you to password protect an Excel workbook from being opened or modified.
- Learn what steps to take if you can’t open a damaged workbook.
- Identify the button within the Scenario Manager dialog box that allows you to apply a given scenario.
- Identify the command within the Tools menu within the Save As dialog box that enables you to password protect an Excel workbook from being opened or modified.
- Recall the section of the Excel Options dialog box where the AutoRecover setting resides that controls how often Excel creates a back-up copy of your workbooks.
- Learn what steps to take if you can’t open a damaged workbook.
Course Description
Sometimes your Excel formulas can grow out of control, or, more likely, you’ve inherited spreadsheets from others that you’re to take ownership of.
In this insightful presentation, Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, shares various ways to make sense of complicated formulas in spreadsheets.
You’ll have an abundance of tricks at your disposal to quickly decipher even the most complex formulas after attending this webcast.
David demonstrates every technique at least twice:
- First, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps
- Second, in the Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365) version of Excel.
David draws your attention to…
Sometimes your Excel formulas can grow out of control, or, more likely, you’ve inherited spreadsheets from others that you’re to take ownership of.
In this insightful presentation, Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, shares various ways to make sense of complicated formulas in spreadsheets.
You’ll have an abundance of tricks at your disposal to quickly decipher even the most complex formulas after attending this webcast.
David demonstrates every technique at least twice:
- First, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps
- Second, in the Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365) version of Excel.
David draws your attention to any differences in the older versions of Excel (2019, 2016, 2013, and earlier) during the presentation as well as in his detailed handouts. David also provides an Excel workbook that includes most of the examples he uses during the webcast.
Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based product that provides new-feature updates as often as monthly. Conversely, the perpetual licensed versions of Excel have feature sets that don’t change. Perpetual licensed versions have year numbers, such as Excel 2019, Excel 2016, and so on.
Why you should attend
- Identify the button within the Scenario Manager dialog box that allows you to apply a given scenario.
- Identify the command within the Tools menu within the Save As dialog box that enables you to password protect an Excel workbook from being opened or modified.
- Recall the section of the Excel Options dialog box where the AutoRecover setting resides that controls how often Excel creates a back-up copy of your workbooks.
- Identify the button within the Scenario Manager dialog box that allows you to apply a given scenario.
- Identify the command within the Tools menu within the Save As dialog box that enables you to password protect an Excel workbook from being opened or modified.
- Recall the section of the Excel Options dialog box where the AutoRecover setting resides that controls how often Excel creates a back-up copy of your workbooks.
Areas Covered
- Enabling the File History feature in Windows 10 to afford an additional level of file versioning.
- Using Excel’s Scenario Manager feature to backup key inputs within a spreadsheet.
- Exploring options for recovering lost passwords for Excel spreadsheets.
- Improving the stability of Excel by deleting accumulations of temporary files in Windows.
- Learning the mouse trick that lets you quickly make a copy of an existing worksheet.
- Learning what steps to take if you can’t open …
- Enabling the File History feature in Windows 10 to afford an additional level of file versioning.
- Using Excel’s Scenario Manager feature to backup key inputs within a spreadsheet.
- Exploring options for recovering lost passwords for Excel spreadsheets.
- Improving the stability of Excel by deleting accumulations of temporary files in Windows.
- Learning the mouse trick that lets you quickly make a copy of an existing worksheet.
- Learning what steps to take if you can’t open a damaged workbook.
- Limiting access to sensitive workbooks by way of password protection.
- Protecting a worksheet to ensure users are limited to changing only specific areas of a worksheet.
- Protecting hidden sheets from within a workbook.
- Protecting macros by assigning a password that prevents macros from being viewed.
- Protecting sensitive information by marking key worksheets as VeryHidden.
- Recovering previous copies of Excel files from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or Windows 10 File History.
Who is this course for
- Accountants
- CPAs
- CFOs
- Controllers
- Income Tax Preparers
- Enrolled Agents
- Financial Consultants
- IT Professionals
- Auditors
- Human Resource Personnel…
- Accountants
- CPAs
- CFOs
- Controllers
- Income Tax Preparers
- Enrolled Agents
- Financial Consultants
- IT Professionals
- Auditors
- Human Resource Personnel
- Bookkeepers
- Excel Users
- Marketers
- Government Personnel
Instructor Profile
Nationally recognized Microsoft Excel expert David H. Ringstrom, CPA, is the president and owner of Accounting Advisors, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia. David founded Accounting Advisors in 1991 as a consulting-services business, later he began teaching continuing education classes as well.
David’s mantra is “Either you work Excel, or it works you,” so he focuses on what he sees users don’t, but should, know about Microsoft Excel. His goal is to empower you to use Excel more effectively. His mission since is to offer quality training and consulting services on Microsoft Excel via live webcasts, on-demand self-study webcasts, and in-house engagements.
David has taught hundreds of webinars on Excel and other topics, in addition to speaking at conferences and in-house engagements.