Ha Dang's victory in the inaugural UK Excel Championship turned a quiet London livestream into a high-pressure showcase of spreadsheet speed, logic and fluency — and it means the Leeds-based accountant will represent the United Kingdom at the Microsoft Excel World Championship in Las Vegas this...
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Microsoft has quietly folded generative AI into Excel’s calculation engine with a native worksheet function — =COPILOT(...) — that accepts plain‑language prompts, reads cell ranges as context, and returns live, spillable outputs directly into the spreadsheet grid. Early previews show it can...
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I had been ignoring Power Query for years, treating Excel like a calculator with a few handy formulas—until a messy, cross‑vendor CSV pile forced me to learn the tool everyone always brags about. What started as a tedious weekend of copy‑pasting and find‑and‑replace turned into a few well‑chosen...
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Microsoft Excel users are entering a new era of productivity this August, as fresh features arrive across Windows, Mac, and the web—moving the world’s leading spreadsheet platform ever closer to a seamless, modern, and highly collaborative experience. These updates, mainly available to Microsoft...
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Microsoft Excel, arguably the most battle-tested spreadsheet tool used by number crunchers far and wide, has been continually evolving for decades like your favorite pop culture sequel. The latest updates announced for 2025 carry the momentum of significant gains made in 2024—putting a spotlight...