A series of recent articles from HowToGeek, PC World, XDA Developers, and MUO detail practical Excel features that can improve efficiency. They cover lesser-known keyboard shortcuts, macro recording, ...

Recent coverage highlights how Microsoft Excel’s AI features, Office Scripts, and Power Query are transforming data cleaning, analysis, and automation. These tools replace fragile formulas and ...

Anthropic has upgraded its Claude AI model with new capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, marking a strategic move to expand its enterprise footprint and potentially challenging Microsoft’s ...

In one of the most impactful changes made in recent years, Microsoft has announced today that it will block by default the execution of VBA macro scripts inside five Office applications. Starting with ...

Sumit acknowledges 5 sets of people in this 5-minute award acceptance talk for his "most influential" POPL 2011 paper, which describes the technology behind the popular Flash Fill feature in Excel. He ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Q. Could you explain how the AGGREGATE function works in Excel? A. AGGREGATE is possibly the most versatile function in Excel. Think of it as an advanced version of the SUBTOTAL function that offers ...

Columns can be hidden in Excel to streamline the spreadsheet's appearance and protect sensitive information, keeping the data intact but out of sight. Look for gaps or double lines between column ...