As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.

Build an automated employee schedule in Excel with SEQUENCE dates and M A N shift dropdowns, so you track coverage fast.

The INDIRECT function has a rep for being a "nightmare," but for building reactive dashboards, it’s irreplaceable. Here is ...

This move makes advanced AI tools more accessible for spreadsheet-heavy workflows. The update, which aims to streamline data analysis for professionals in finance and operations, now supports drag-and ...

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.

Sync your drop-down menus with table headers using this robust, auto-expanding Named Range trick.

Microsoft announced new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They can help to shrink the gap between ideation and production. Other Copilot updates include an expanded Voice mode. In the era of AI ...

A Column Chart can be used to create the most common form of a timeline in Excel, which consists of a horizontal layout with a time-based X-axis and events or milestones plotted along it. To create a ...

If you would like to display data in a more visually pleasing and easy to understand way. An Excel heatmap is a data visualization tool that uses color coding to represent different values in a range ...

Q. I often use watermarks in Microsoft Word to indicate that the document is a “Draft” or “Confidential.” However, the options to create a watermark are not in Microsoft Excel. I want to indicate that ...

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