I'm not arguing that PivotTables are now useless, because they still solve certain problems very well. However, after seeing how fluid, responsive, and adaptable GROUPBY and PIVOTBY can be, I've found ...

It's cleaner and less cluttered: The double-unary operator is the most concise way to apply a mathematical coercion operation to an array. For example, if you have a complex nested array formula, two ...

Researchers at Google have developed a new AI paradigm aimed at solving one of the biggest limitations in today’s large language models: their inability to learn or update their knowledge after ...

Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lindsay Philips is a founder and change leader In 1979, a new tool called VisiCalc landed on finance desks. For the first time, ...

A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

Microsoft is introducing Agent Mode in Excel, part of its new approach to “vibe working,” where Copilot can analyze data, generate visualizations, and iterate on results through multi-step tasks.

The PMT function is an Excel Financial function that returns the periodic payment for an annuity. The formula for the PMT function is PMT(rate,nper,pv, [fv], [type]). The NPV function returns the net ...

Spreadsheet apps like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are used worldwide to organize and analyze data, but getting the right information into them isn’t always straightforward. Businesses often need ...

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 ...

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 ...