Microsoft Copilot can now handle more of your finance work in Excel with reusable skills and data connectors

Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.
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I built my own Excel toolbar using basic VBA, and it works in every spreadsheet I open

VBA may have a bad reputation, but it's still one of the most effective ways to automate repetitive actions in standard XLSX ...
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Excel finally speaks regex, and it cleans the data I used to fix by hand

I didn't realize how much time I spent on cleanups until regex let me stop.

6 Excel Settings You Keep Forgetting to Check Before Hitting Send

Safeguard your Excel data in 2026 with these six practical tips for sheet protection, file encryption, and preventing ...
The Tech Edvocate

How to recover unsaved Excel file

Spread the love“`html We’ve all been there: you’ve spent hours crafting the perfect spreadsheet in Excel, only to have it vanish into the ether because of a crash or, worse, forgetting to hit save. It ...
ZDNet

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

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These 5 Excel functions are silently slowing down your spreadsheets — use these instead

In 2021, after catching the tech bug as a kid and earning a degree in communications, Ada got into tech writing by editing crypto guides. Ada's expertise now spans Windows, Android (especially Samsung ...
CNET

Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...
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Good news for Excel users: You can now import data from CSV files without Power Query

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...
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Extract Data from DBF File to Excel Without Data Loss

Extract data from DBF File to Excel is often the first thing people search for when they inherit an old database and need quick access to the data. Here’s the thing. DBF files were never built for ...
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 ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using 3 Excel View tools to manage large spreadsheets

Q. I work with large spreadsheets. These spreadsheets have hundreds or even thousands of rows and often 10 or more columns. It’s so much to process that I become confused and make mistakes. Does Excel ...