Macros are powerful, but they don't work on the web or mobile. I’ve switched to the native REDUCE function for my complex ...

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

Text-to-speech (TTS) tools convert written text into spoken word using AI, which can increase accessibility and offer a shortcut to natural-sounding voice-overs for creative and p ...

Excel now supports IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions that load external text and CSV files as dynamic arrays, making it ...

Build bulletproof workbooks with named ranges, dynamic tables, and Excel's built-in error-checking tools.

Q. How can I use Benford’s Law in Excel? A. Benford’s Law is a powerful tool in the accounting and auditing profession. It is based on the observation that in many naturally occurring datasets, the ...

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 ...

Have you ever spent countless hours wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to convert “one thousand two hundred” into “1,200” or vice versa? For years, this task has frustrated professionals across ...

Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...