Wise Owl's news tweet | Issue 98 - Autumn 2026

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Our new course schedule for next year, including 3 new one-day Excel and Power BI courses

You can now see a concise PDF showing all of our courses dates up to June next year (or use our online calendar to see the same thing).

You can choose the area of training you're looking for, and scroll between months.

We've also divided our previous two-day Excel Advanced course into a one-day Excel Advanced Formulae and one-day Excel Advanced Data course (and updated the contents of both), and have launched a new one-day Power BI Reports in a Day course for those who want to learn the basics of Power BI without spending too much time (or money).

One big and two small changes to Excel in the September 2026 update

The latest Excel update has introduced a brilliant new feature - you can now store a list of values in a single cell:

There's a lot more to this change: it's well worth reading our blog explaining all of the new features.

In addition to this you can now give a table a name when you first create it, and (finally!) choose to centre cells across a selection more easily.

The main changes to Power BI in the last 4 monthly updates, plus 5 truly inspirational reports

Highlights of our summary of the changes to Power BI Desktop over the July, August, September and October updates include multiple updates to slicers, charts and matrices.

You can even format the inside of a donut chart!

Otherwise if you're short of inspiration for what to include in your reports, you could try these 5 amazing reports:

An example of one of the reports, allowing you to play arcade games in Power BI.

The other 4 reports let you calculate your life expectancy, give an FT statistics style guide, show Shopify statistics (and allow you to create your own playlist) and include an impressive scrolling animated CV.

Don't like a website? Destroy it! Or watch a wise owl shooting up the NRA website for you ...

If you get angry with a website (and who hasn't been there?), you can destroy it with a choice of weapons:

The irony of using a succession of more powerful weapons to destroy the NRA website!

Watch a 40-second video of Wise Owl destroying the NRA website (or have a go yourself) here. Don't forget to turn your sound on!

A logic puzzle with a chance to win £50, plus the best image generated from last issue's competition

This month's competition invites you to work out the real names, number of followers and debut year for 5 (imaginary) influencers:

You can use this grid to help you, download our Excel workbook or even one including helpful macros.

The first correct entry drawn out of MR BEAST (our Microsoft Random Ballot Engine for Award Selection Tool) will win £50 and a mention in our next newsletter.

You can see the top 3 images chosen from last issue's image generation competition - together with details of the winning entry - here, or why not have a look at the full set of 19 entries on our website?

Note that to keep our website content up-to-date we only publish newsletters from the last 3 calendar years.

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Wise Owl's news tweet | Issue 98 - Autumn 2026

Our new course schedule for next year, including 3 new one-day Excel and Power BI courses

One big and two small changes to Excel in the September 2026 update

The main changes to Power BI in the last 4 monthly updates, plus 5 truly inspirational reports

Don't like a website? Destroy it! Or watch a wise owl shooting up the NRA website for you ...

A logic puzzle with a chance to win £50, plus the best image generated from last issue's competition

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