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The simple Excel function that decides if your formula spills or returns one value

For decades, Excel worked on a simple principle: you enter a formula into one cell, and it returns a single result into that ...

Optimize Excel's Goal Seek: Master Reverse Calculations

Discover how Excel's Goal Seek reverses calculations to find input values from known outcomes and enhances your data analysis skills.
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I thought Excel was unmatched until I discovered this LibreOffice Calc capability

The core of the problem in Excel isn't that it lacks regex functionality. Indeed, in 2024, Microsoft introduced REGEXEXTRACT, REGEXTEST, and REGEXREPLACE to the long list of functions available in its ...
Redmond Magazine

The New Copilot Function Vastly Improves Microsoft Excel, Part 2

Microsoft’s new Copilot function in Excel lets users generate, analyze and explain data directly from cell formulas, marking a major step toward full AI integration within spreadsheets. Microsoft’s ...
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 ...
ZDNet

Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them

Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.
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Moving sales, service, and finance to the Frontier with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Frontier Firms are a new type of organization that puts AI at the heart of business—reinventing customer experience and employee productivity while reshaping processes and bending the curve on ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft to lessen reliance on OpenAI by buying AI from rival Anthropic

Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic’s AI in Office 365 apps, The Information reports, citing two sources. The move means that Anthropic’s tech will help power new features in Word, Excel, Outlook, and ...
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 ...
TechSpot

Excel gets Copilot formula function, but Microsoft warns about accuracy

TL;DR: Microsoft is launching Copilot AI for Excel, a new feature that uses advanced language models to help users analyze data, summarize information, and generate ideas directly in their ...
ZDNet

Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it

A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ...