One of the most underused lookup and reference functions in Microsoft Excel is the DROP function. This powerful yet simple function lets you remove a specified number of rows or columns from the start ...

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 free Excel tutorials. Bill "MrExcel" Jelen is the author of 67 books about ...

Microsoft added some very useful features to Excel in September 2025, but many of them are exclusive to customers belonging to certain categories.

Microsoft Excel has turned 40 years old today, marking a milestone age for the trusted spreadsheet software. Initially released on September 30 th, 1985, it’s estimated that Excel’s monthly user-base ...

If you're "vibe working" or "vibe writing" in Microsoft Word, you're doing the same thing, but with a text document: You're telling it what you want the document to say, reading it, accepting the ...

Excel's text functions, such as TRIM, UPPER, LOWER, and PROPER, can be used to clean up textual data. TRIM removes extra spaces from text entries. UPPER converts text to uppercase letters, LOWER does ...

Maximor has come out of stealth with a human-in-the-loop agentic platform that does the finance team's grunt work.

Four decades after its debut, finance chiefs say Excel’s consistency, flexibility and shared language keep it central to corporate finance even as AI reshapes the tech stack.

To try Agent Mode in Excel, you need to get the Excel Labs add-in and choose Agent Mode. In Word, you can just open Copilot and select Agent Mode from the menu below the prompt box. The feature will ...

Excel first appeared on the Apple Macintosh in 1985. It sported a graphical interface from the start, unlike its text-based competitors. Microsoft then ported Excel to Windows, where it quickly gained ...