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I use Excel all day—the simple Ctrl+1 shortcut does 80% of the work

Ctrl+1 streamlines the Excel workflow, efficiently handling most of my day-to-day and advanced formatting needs. Universal ...
How-To Geek on MSN

How to do math in Excel without formulas

The fix for the disposable formula habit in Excel is already on your screen. At the very bottom of your Excel window is a ...

College football overtime rules 2025: Explaining how the NCAA OT format works and differences from NFL

In the NFL, there are differences in the overtime rules for the regular season versus the playoffs. This mainly stems from the fact that in the regular season, games can end in ties. In the playoffs, ...

This Ridiculously Detailed Spreadsheet Has Helped Me Stick to My New Year’s Resolutions for Five Years

From the most thorough travel plans to your fitness journey, if you have a goal, that goal needs a spreadsheet tab. It’s a ...
Hackaday

A Brief History Of The Spreadsheet

We noted that Excel turned 40 this year. That makes it seem old, and today, if you say “spreadsheet,” there’s a good chance ...

Spreadsheets Get Intense in Viral Clips from the Microsoft Excel Championships

The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship finals, were held in Las Vegas on Dec. 2 to 3. According to their website, The Microsoft Excel World Championship (MEWC) is a global esports competition whe ...

Y Combinator-Backed Model ML Raises Massive $75M To Kill Junior Banker Grunt Work Forever

AI workflow automation platform Model ML announced on Nov. 24 that it raised $75 million in Series A financing to eliminate the formatting grunt work that haunts junior bankers. The funding comes just ...
BBC

'It's the golden age of spreadsheet geekery'

"Who doesn't want to be the spreadsheet champion?" That is what the co-founders of the UK Microsoft Excel chapter said when explaining how the everyday computer program Microsoft Excel became a ...

How to create an invoice the right way

Brex reports that proper invoicing is crucial for timely payments, outlining essential components and best practices to ...
Financial Post

William Watson: Real-time budget spreadsheets reveal a lot

Though too late to be of any use to Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, I’ve just run across a helpful page on the Government of Canada’s website, in particular the Financial Consumer Agency ...
CNET

AI Can Now Help You Create Top-Grade Word Documents and Excel Spreadsheets

Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being ...
Ars Technica

With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”

With a new set of Microsoft 365 features, knowledge workers will be able to generate complex Word documents or Excel spreadsheets using only text prompts to Microsoft’s chatbot. Two distinct products ...