Excel Add-In for Higher Productivity in FDD, Transaction Services, M&A, and Finance

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  • Quick Tools

    Accelerate everyday formatting work and use more than 30 quick time-savers.

    Highlights:
    - Customizable formatting shortcuts
    - Copy exact formulas
    - Swap contents between two cells

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  • Navigation

    Manage sheets, understand workbook contents, and navigate formulas.

    Highlights:
    - Explore formula logic and precedent ranges in a visual treeview
    - Modify multiple sheet names at once

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  • Key Functions

    Time-saving utilities for key functions in professional services.

    Highlights:
    - Copy-paste only SUM/SUBTOTAL in a selection without affecting other cells
    - Convert SUMIFS and INDEX MATCH to direct cell references

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  • Utilities

    Partial automations to simplify common repetitive tasks and more.

    Highlights:
    - Flip through or create links to the same range across multiple sheets
    - Summarize cells with a certain value and create a link to each cell

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  • Selections, Copy & Paste

    Streamline repetitive and complex formatting or copy-paste tasks.

    Highlights:
    - Duplicate a range
    - Copy-paste non-contiguous selections
    - Enchanced selection functionality

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  • PivotTables & Data Model

    Convert PivotTables into formatted and grouped normal cells while maintaining hierarchies.

    Standard PivotTables can be converted into values, SUMIFS, or GETPIVOTDATA formulas. PowerPivots into cube formulas.

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  • Charts

    Simplify chart formatting and efficiently adjust data sources.

    Highlights:
    - Copy colors between elements
    - Explore and adjust a chart's range references

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  • General

    Customize formats with an intuitive interface. Create multiple user profiles with customizations for different clients or projects.

    Import/Export user profiles for team or project consistency.

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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

  • Accelerate is a comprehensive toolkit offering additional features in Excel.

    Designed by former M&A and Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) professionals, it addresses real-world challenges faced by professionals daily.

    You'll find everything from customizable formatting shortcuts and enhanced navigation capabilities to automations like converting PivotTables to formatted normal cells.

    Technically, Accelerate is an Excel add-in that requires downloading and installation. Once installed, the Accelerate ribbon will appear among your Excel ribbons, giving you access to all its features.

  • Accelerate is ideal for professionals in:

    • Financial due diligence (FDD)

    • Transaction advisory services (TAS) / transaction services (TS) / deal advisory

    • Investment banking / mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

    • Strategy consulting and other consulting/advisory roles like financial modeling and valuation

    • Finance & accounting roles (controlling, FP&A, etc.)

    • Excel power users in general

    Its intuitive and user-friendly design becomes even more powerful with regular use—a given in these Excel-heavy industries.

  • Everything you can do with Accelerate, you can also do without it—the difference is the time it takes.

    Over six months, professionals in financial due diligence (FDD) / transaction advisory services (TAS) can perform their Excel work at least twice as fast using Accelerate.

  • Features are easily accessible through the Accelerate ribbon in Excel. Additional options become available in task panes once a tool is started.

    Demo videos, practice files, case studies and tooltips for every tool ensure you become proficient in no time. Tools that involve task panes or windows include a question mark button that links to a demo video on our website.

    Designed with practicality in mind, this comprehensive toolbar will make a noticeable impact, even if you start by using just a few tools.

  • Most third-party or in-house toolbars prioritize basic formatting, such as brand and company colors. While Accelerate includes essential formatting tools, it also emphasizes more technical aspects, enhancing number crunching, data preparation, and overall Excel efficiency. In this regard, we find that other Excel toolbars are often either too broad and lack necessary depth or too complex and focus on cases we consider irrelevant.

    Our aim is to balance these extremes by offering a toolkit that is both comprehensive and user-friendly. Take our Copy & Paste tool, for example—it perfectly illustrates our approach. It combines numerous features into a single, intuitive task pane, catering to a wide range of applications without being overly complicated.

  • Yes, we offer a 14-day free trial of Accelerate with full access to all features, no restrictions. No sign-up needed. Download, install, restart Excel, and your trial begins automatically. Even after the trial period ends, you'll still have access to limited functionality like the Explore Formula feature.

    Make the most of your trial by exploring our tutorials and case studies, which include examples and instructions on how to use the tools effectively.

    Note: Accelerate is compatible only with desktop versions of Microsoft Excel on Windows.