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Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might realize. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know. I've been writing professionally about computers, the internet, and technology ...
Usually, if you share an Excel spreadsheet with someone, that person is able to freely edit the spreadsheet. In some cases, you may want to send someone a spreadsheet with data but you also want to ...
The unlikeliest hobby? People are using spreadsheets for fun, and winning world championships along the way. Here’s how I got into the quirky world of data. Andrew “The Annihilator” Ngai won the World ...
A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ...
Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyze data directly in spreadsheet cells using plain-language prompts. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is building generative ...
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 ...
Tech upstarts for decades have been looking to unseat Microsoft Excel, arguably the most important piece of business software ever invented. They’ve touted more technically advanced ways of organizing ...
There is a stark example this week of how things are changing in the race toward artificial intelligence. This involves a household-name model, and an administrative technology that’s instantly ...
There's a new AI agent on the block for people who spend their waking hours inside spreadsheets. Navigate to Shortcut AI's website, and you'll find a page that looks almost exactly like an empty ...
The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 96, No. 5 (December 2014), pp. 916-935 (20 pages) We propose a random coefficients nested logit (RCNL) model to compare the tractable nested logit (NL) ...
Q. You released an article about using ChatGPT-4o in September 2024. Could you show us more ideas about how to use ChatGPT-4o with Excel? A. In today’s fast-paced accounting world, being efficient and ...