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Copilot is on the way to Microsoft Excel. Or rather, more Copilot is being packed into the popular spreadsheet program. A new COPILOT function is rolling out now to users in the Beta Channel and ...
Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. After the rollout ...
Data wonks, rejoice! Pivot tables now automatically refresh themselves in a new beta version of Microsoft Excel. You might expect that pivot tables—which can be used to summarize rows and columns of ...
It's that time of the month again: when Microsoft recaps everything new that it introduced in Excel during the past four weeks. This roundup is useful because it allows us to see the improvements ...
I discovered artificial intelligence tool GPT Excel in my quest to cut down on all the busywork it takes to create and update spreadsheets. Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist ...
Windows may get all the attention, but when you want to get real work done, you turn to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel. Excel is, of course, ...
Excel is a fantastic spreadsheet app, capable of processing large quantities of data with ease, but it’s missing arguably its biggest recent feature addition on Mac. Still, it’s absolutely packed with ...
Turns out, you really can make a competition out of almost anything. A recent The New York Times piece peeled back the cover on the e-sport you didn't know you were missing: the Microsoft Excel World ...
It was down to the final 30 seconds at the Microsoft Excel World Championships in Las Vegas, and the crowd was going wild. Canada's Michael Jarman was in the lead, his eyes fixed on the scoreboard, ...
The Microsoft Excel World Championship handed the 2024 trophy to a beaming, bearded Canadian: Michael Jarman, whose spreadsheet skills topped all others in a heated competition in Las Vegas this week.
Japanese characters often become garbled when you work with CSV or text files in Microsoft Excel. To avoid the problem, use the Unicode encoding option when importing the data into Excel. Unicode is ...
Placing spreadsheet data into a table quickly formats it and makes it easy to work with and analyze. Here’s how to use this basic yet powerful Excel tool. Tables are one of the fundamental tools in ...