Microsoft Excel turns 40 today, and the company has outlined plans for future updates set to transform how we work with data.

Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might realize. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know.

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The sheet of a Microsoft Excel workbook is a work space that contains a series of cells that contain your data. The data in the sheet can include numbers, text, and images. If you want, you can copy ...

To try Agent Mode in Excel, you need to get the Excel Labs add-in and choose Agent Mode. In Word, you can just open Copilot ...

How to use sheet view for more flexible collaboration in Excel Your email has been sent Collaboration is the latest Microsoft 365 push, and it’s easier now than ever before to share a document in real ...

That all changed when I discovered two features in Excel most people don't know about: Watch Window and Custom Views. Together, they provided me with a way to track the numbers that matter without ...

There's no escaping spreadsheets. Tools like Excel and Google Sheets are ubiquitous these days, and learning how to use them more effectively will quickly enhance your daily work. But spreadsheets ...

The VSTACK and HSTACK functions enable efficient data combination from multiple sheets while maintaining dynamic ...

Microsoft Excel makes it easy to import data from other sources, such as Access and Oracle databases. Doing so, however, may result in poorly formatted data that is difficult to analyze, sort or ...