How-To Geek on MSN

How to use the MAP function in Microsoft Excel

Row precision vs. Aggregation errors: MAP is the best way to use "greedy" functions like AND or OR in a single, dynamic ...
PCMag on MSN

These 47 expert Excel tricks will transform you into a power user

Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might imagine. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know.
Wall Street Journal

Using Your Credit Card at the Checkout Is Set to Get a Lot More Complicated

Your favorite latte at the local coffee shop could soon cost $5, $5.10 or $5.25—depending on how you pay. A settlement between Visa, Mastercard and U.S. merchants announced this week could usher in a ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
Futurism

Lawyer Gets Caught Using AI in Court, Responds in the Worst Possible Way

What is it with lawyers and AI? We don’t know, but it feels like an inordinate number of them keep screwing up with AI tools, apparently never learning from their colleagues who get publicly crucified ...
Des Moines Register

No ringing in the school year. Iowa's cell phone classroom ban is law. Will it help kids?

A new Iowa law requires public schools to create policies limiting student cell phone use during instructional time. Early reports from some Iowa schools show improved grades, attendance, and fewer ...
Oregonian

Dear Doctor: How do doctors calculate absolute risk reduction numbers when considering use of statins?

DEAR DR. ROACH: A cardiologist recently suggested that I should consider taking a statin because of my “borderline” cholesterol level. So, I took a dive into the details of statin therapy. I learned ...
Detroit Free Press

Michigan starts the school year without a state law limiting student phone use

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called for a new state law to limit student cell phone use at school. The Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Senate introduced competing plans to restrict student ...
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 ...
Telegram

State Senate passes ban on all cell phones during school hours

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate has passed a bill that would impose a statewide ban on cell phone use in public schools. The bill would ban the use of cell phones by students in all schools from ...
GEN

Cell Activity Predicted Using Plain-Language “Hypothesis Grammar”

Drs. Jeanette Johnson, Elana J. Fertig, and Daniel Bergman review mathematical models and genomic data to simulate cancer cell growth. [University of Maryland School of Medicine] Researchers at ...