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How to use the SCAN function in Microsoft Excel to calculate running totals

The SCAN function lives in a single cell and spills the results down the column, ensuring my totals are always structurally ...

Use Microsoft Excel data types to save unnecessary typing

If you’ve ever doing an assignment for work or study that requires you to display information about a country, you could ...
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How to do math in Excel without formulas

The fix for the disposable formula habit in Excel is already on your screen. At the very bottom of your Excel window is a ...

This Ridiculously Detailed Spreadsheet Has Helped Me Stick to My New Year’s Resolutions for Five Years

From the most thorough travel plans to your fitness journey, if you have a goal, that goal needs a spreadsheet tab. It’s a ...
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A Brief History Of The Spreadsheet

We noted that Excel turned 40 this year. That makes it seem old, and today, if you say “spreadsheet,” there’s a good chance ...
VentureBeat

Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for finance, integrates with Excel to rival Microsoft Copilot

Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and ...
Investopedia

How To Build a Monthly Budget That Actually Fits Your Life

Make your budget work for your real lifestyle—not the one on spreadsheets Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using 3 Excel View tools to manage large spreadsheets

Q. I work with large spreadsheets. These spreadsheets have hundreds or even thousands of rows and often 10 or more columns. It’s so much to process that I become confused and make mistakes. Does Excel ...
CNET

AI Can Now Help You Create Top-Grade Word Documents and Excel Spreadsheets

Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being ...
Ars Technica

With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”

With a new set of Microsoft 365 features, knowledge workers will be able to generate complex Word documents or Excel spreadsheets using only text prompts to Microsoft’s chatbot. Two distinct products ...
The Verge

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

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 ...
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Excel + AI: Microsoft brings new ‘COPILOT’ function directly into spreadsheet cells

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 ...