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I started using Microsoft Excel with Copilot and it's been a game-changer

After playing with Copilot in Excel for a while, I decided to throw a messy sales sheet at Copilot to see if it could ...

17 New Excel Features for 2026 to Speed up Your Work

Discover 17 new Excel features and functions for 2026, so you track edits and data faster. Including auto-refreshing pivots ...
BBC

'LeBron James of spreadsheets' wins world Microsoft Excel title

Diarmuid took the Excel World Championship belt from three time winner Andrew Ngai Irishman Diarmuid Early emerged onto the HyperX arena in Las Vegas under the bright lights, dramatic music, and ...
PC Gamer

The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship went way, way harder than it needed to with its wrestling-style intros and I'm so here for it

But this year, the organisers have upped the ante. While the championship has experimented with wrestler-style intros before, in which competitors run down a tunnel to a smattering of muted applause ...
BBC

'It's the golden age of spreadsheet geekery'

"Who doesn't want to be the spreadsheet champion?" That is what the co-founders of the UK Microsoft Excel chapter said when explaining how the everyday computer program Microsoft Excel became a ...
Engadget

Anthropic's Opus 4.5 model is here to conquer Microsoft Excel

An illustration Anthropic commissioned to mark the release of Opus 4.5. (Anthropic) Hot on the heels of Google's Gemini 3 Pro release, Anthropic has announced an update for its flagship Opus model.
Redmond Magazine

The New Copilot Function Vastly Improves Microsoft Excel, Part 1

Excel’s newest Copilot integration finally delivers the data intelligence Microsoft promised years ago, transforming how users clean, organize and understand information within their spreadsheets. Way ...
Microsoft

Formulas, fandom and an AI-fueled future — Microsoft Excel celebrates 40 years

When Andrew Grigolyunovich first started using Excel more than two decades ago, he never imagined the spreadsheet program would land him in Las Vegas or on ESPN. The Latvian financial consultant ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

Certain Windows 365 Copilot users now have access to a new feature in Excel that lets you use Microsoft's Copilot AI to generate formulas, but you might want to be careful how you use it. Microsoft is ...
waketech

Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2016

If you work with numbers, you need to master Microsoft Excel 2016! This hands-on course will teach you dozens of shortcuts and tricks for setting up fully-formatted worksheets quickly and efficiently.