37 years ago to the day (30th September 1985), the inaugural Microsoft Excel 1.0 was released. What’s perhaps surprising is that Macintosh users were the first to experience it. Minus the early years, Excel for Mac has always had an…
The current Excel logo was first rolled out in April 2019, which means it’s about the same age as the average lifespan across the series (3.6 years). It arguably represents the best phase of Excel’s illustrious history, where the pace…
I love to hear about obscure uses for Excel. Why? Because it debunks the notion it’s purely a number-crunching tool used for a certain activity, by a certain group of people, in a certain place, and at a certain time….
Ever wanted to know which words pop up a lot in your LinkedIn posts? Or, what tone you write in? MonkeyLearn provides two free tools for this: a word cloud generator and a sentiment analyser. A word cloud is a…
VBA will soon have a challenger — it’s called Office Scripts. Microsoft first announced Office Scripts back in 2019. Since then, it’s been available in Excel for the web to those with a commercial or educational license. However, it’s set…
Relative timestamps are commonplace across social media feeds. They are reader-friendly and instantly interpretable, making it easy to know when posts were published. On the other hand, absolute timestamps are not. They require extra mental work, are unnecessarily clunky, and…
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