Diarmuid Early won first place in the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship. He has some pointers for using Excel at work.

FORECAST.ETS applies an exponential triple smoothing (ETS) algorithm to create forecasts that can include trend and seasonal ...

If you've ever tried building a product catalog in Excel, you know the headache — images float over cells, they don't move ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyze data directly in spreadsheet cells using plain-language prompts. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is building generative ...

You can now interact with Excel cells in natural language with =COPILOT It doesn't interact with external data from the web... yet You can combine it with other Excel functions Microsoft is rolling ...

Have you ever spent countless minutes—or even hours—manually deleting blank rows in Excel, only to realize there’s a faster, smarter way? For years, the process of cleaning up spreadsheets has been a ...

Have you ever been frustrated by Excel treating blank cells as zeros? It’s a small quirk, but one that can wreak havoc on your data analysis. Whether you’re building financial models, tracking ...