Today saw the final day of the two week tour Down Under for seven Excel MVPs, two Microsoft staff, an academic and several CPA staff, as the Unlock Excel event drew to a close in Auckland.

Over the eight days, in excess of 500 Excel users listened to various topics including the perennial tricks and tips, financial modelling, PivotTables, Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI, charts, dashboards and VBA. It was quite the success story - we'll tell you more about it in next month's newsletter.

Our picture shows from left to right, Mynda Treacy, Ingeborg Hawighorst, Microsoft's Dany Hoter, Roger Govier, Ken Puls, Chandoo, Jon Peltier and our own Liam Bastick. Absent was Microsoft's Eric Patterson and modelling expert Bas Jansen.

If you missed it, don't worry. Online video sessions will be available soon and we are hoping to create a similar event in 2018 where you can come along in person. More to follow in due course!