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

Have you ever stared at a blank Excel spreadsheet, wondering where to begin or how to make sense of all those rows, columns, and tools? You’re not alone. For many, Excel feels like an overwhelming ...

The introduction of dynamic arrays triggered the biggest change to how we work with Microsoft Excel formulas in years, if not decades. They allow a single formula to spill multiple results into ...

AI Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it's time to stop talking about AI 'slop' and start talking about a 'theory of the mind that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier ...

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 ...

Have you ever spent hours manually updating a spreadsheet, only to realize there’s a faster, smarter way to get the job done? Excel is a tool most of us use, but few truly master. The irony? Some of ...

Excel's IF function validates a cell's contents, determining whether it meets criteria that you set. It provides no information beyond what your workbook already contains, but it analyzes the data ...

Placing spreadsheet data into a table quickly formats it and makes it easy to work with and analyze. Here’s how to use this basic yet powerful Excel tool. Tables are one of the fundamental tools in ...

Are there times when you don’t want to calculate the values on your spreadsheet and instead want the total count of items? Using the five COUNT functions in Microsoft Excel, you can count a number of ...