Excel-related articles.
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….
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…
Ever typed a phone number, identification number, or ZIP code, only to find Excel annoyingly strips away the leading zero and converts it into a numeric value? We might know that numbers have a use beyond mathematical operation, but Excel doesn’t. Thankfully,…
Last year, Microsoft introduced a collaboration feature in Excel for the web called Show Changes. It allows users to track modifications to cells across a workbook. Guess what? It’s now come to the desktop version of Excel for Microsoft 365….
Remember when we had to use hacky methods to insert pictures into cells? No longer. A new function is born — it’s called IMAGE. That’s right, Excel has taken another leaf out of Sheets’ book with a long overdue but…
