Microsoft has removed App Skills from Excel's Copilot after users found multiple AI entry points confusing, now consolidating them into a single interface.

Dark Mode has its drawbacks. For example, the worksheet grid usually remains white. You can choose Black under Office Theme, which activates a Dark Mode toggle in the View tab of your Excel ribbon.

Only two Excel updates this month, but Copilot just got way more powerful. Here's what Microsoft quietly rolled out.

As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

Sometimes, the YEAR function returns the correct value, but Excel displays an unexpected year, such as 1900 or 1905. This occurs when the cell containing the YEAR formula is formatted as a Date ...

Copilot is graduating from a basic chat interface to a full-blown agent that can autonomously edit workbooks and toggle between GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.5. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

If you often work with data that starts life as a text file or CSV, Microsoft Excel now has new built-in tools that simplify how that information gets pulled into a spreadsheet. The update introduces ...

If Excel is not recognizing functions after a reboot, here is how you can fix the issue. If your functions are not working after an Excel restart or a computer restart, you can try these solutions to ...

After the upcoming changes for Microsoft Teams, the company also plans to add improvements to Excel in the form of better Copilot integrations, so let’s see what we can expect to see. As we know, ...

How to limit shared design data, protecting IP and securing the manufacturing handoff. Last month’s column on intelligent data transfer discussed how PCB design data have evolved from unintelligent, ...