Microsoft has started to roll out a new feature that promises to turn Excel into a much more valuable data-surfacing tool than ever before. Here's how it works. A few months ago, I wrote about the ...

Microsoft on Thursday leaned more heavily into its support for “data types” within Excel, going beyond the staid concept of numbers and formulas to embrace a huge variety of elements that could reside ...

If you’ve ever doing an assignment for work or study that requires you to display information about a country, you could manually search for it and type it out in Microsoft Excel, but that would be ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

Microsoft today announced that it is adding more than 100 new cloud-connected data types for Office Insiders on Windows and macOS. The types include topics such as Food, Chemistry, Space, and more.

Even though you sorted in ascending order in Excel, it lists as "100, 20, 3". Even if they look like numbers, they don't behave consistently in aggregations or filters. One potential cause is that ...

Reshaping wide data makes it easier to use familiar Excel tools like PivotTables and charts.