Microsoft Excel turns 40 today, and the company has outlined plans for future updates set to transform how we work with data.

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When Andrew Grigolyunovich first started using Excel more than two decades ago, he never imagined the spreadsheet program would land him in Las Vegas or on ESPN.   The Latvian financial consultant ...

If you're "vibe working" or "vibe writing" in Microsoft Word, you're doing the same thing, but with a text document: you're telling it what you want the document to say, reading it, accepting the ...

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If you’re feeling particularly spreadsheet-y today, this BBC podcast highlights some interesting details about the creation of Excel, including Gabe Newell’s involvement and how developers wanted to ...

To do this, with the 1% cell still copied, select the cells containing the values you want to convert from whole numbers into percentages. If your data is formatted as an Excel table, hover over the ...

Thanks to Agent Mode in Excel and Docs, all you have to do is describe the task at hand, and you will have a well-formatted and aptly edited document at your disposal.

Have you ever stared at a sprawling Excel spreadsheet, wondering how to make sense of the chaos? For many, Excel formulas feel like a secret language, powerful yet elusive. But here’s the truth: ...

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 ...

Use Excel in your rate card formulas to calculate discounts, dimensions and unit costs of your advertising rate document. Instead of manually calculating each of ...