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 ...

If you have a spreadsheet and want to create multiple folders from the Excel spreadsheet’s values, you can follow this tutorial. Whether you use the Excel desktop app, Excel Online, or Google Sheets, ...

Dropdowns are useful features that simplify data entry and enforce data validations in spreadsheet software. Creating a dropdown list is easy. And you might have done that already in Excel. But did ...

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 about computers, the internet, and technology professionally ...

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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 has been the industry standard spreadsheet software for decades, since outdoing the once venerable Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for PCs in the 1980s. And Excel's dominance has yet ...

Microsoft Excel is testing a new AI-powered function that can automatically fill cells in your spreadsheets, which is similar to the feature that Google Sheets rolled out in June. You would use the ...

Microsoft is building generative AI directly into the cells of Excel, attempting to bring one of the defining apps of the PC revolution into a new generation of computing. A new “COPILOT” function for ...

The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a group of cells. The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a ...

What if your Excel spreadsheet could think for you? Imagine typing a simple prompt like “Summarize sales trends by region” and watching as your data transforms into actionable insights, no formulas, ...

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