Modern business intelligence demands speed, and utilizing AI tools for Excel is the ultimate way to hyper-charge your data workflows this year.

VBA may have a bad reputation, but it's still one of the most effective ways to automate repetitive actions in standard XLSX ...

I didn't realize how much time I spent on cleanups until regex let me stop.

Asset tracking is crucial for the majority of businesses to maintain efficiency. But not every business needs a premium solution. Starting off with an Excel template or a free asset tracking software ...

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XLIDE gives Excel VBA projects a modern VS Code workspace. Add one or more .xlsm, .xlsb, or .xlam workbooks to your VS Code project and XLIDE detects them automatically. Navigate each workbook's VBA ...

A new generation of LLMs are tiny enough to fit comfortably on local hardware, but offer surprising amounts of power for code analysis and generation. This video shows how you can use LM Studio and a ...

Anthropic has upgraded its Claude AI model with new capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, marking a strategic move to expand its enterprise footprint and potentially challenging Microsoft’s ...

Anthropic's open source standard, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), released in late 2024, allows users to connect AI models and the agents atop them to external tools in a structured, reliable format ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The LEN function calculates the length of ...

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