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Nobody told me about these 5 Excel PivotTable tricks—now I use them every day

PivotTables can do more than you think, from splitting reports by category to calculating unique counts and percentage growth ...

Microsoft Copilot can now handle more of your finance work in Excel with reusable skills and data connectors

Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.
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How to generate random numbers, shuffle lists, and create test data in Excel

Excel's randomization functions generate values, shuffle datasets, and simulate timelines using simple formulas.
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6 Microsoft Excel Alternatives To Use

For years, Microsoft Excel has been hailed as one of the best in the business for creating and managing spreadsheets. It has always been a staple choice in both office and academic environments for a ...
Analytics Insight

Power Query vs Power Pivot in Excel 2026: Key Differences and Use Cases

Power Query and Power Pivot help Excel users manage large datasets more efficiently. Power Query focuses on cleaning and preparing data, while Power Pivot handles analysis and reporting. Together, ...
GIGAZINE

IBM has released the 'Granite 4.1' series of AI models, open models that excel at following prompts and calling tools.

Granite 4.1 is a language model trained on a dataset worth 15 trillion tokens, and three open models have been released: 'Granite-4.1-30B' with 30 billion parameters, 'Granite-4.1-8B' with 8 billion ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it

Despite the lingering perception that no one really uses Copilot, Microsoft said Wednesday that its user base and engagement are growing for the AI tool that’s baked into M365 apps like Word, Excel, ...
ZDNet

Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Add New Agentic AI Features for Paid Copilot Users

Microsoft is making new Copilot-powered agentic features available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and they’re enabled by default for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions.
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‘State-of-the-art’ models can struggle with basic enterprise tasks: AI unicorn executive

“State-of-the-art” (Sota) artificial intelligence models excel at solving complex Olympiad maths but still struggle with everyday enterprise tasks, according to an executive from a top AI unicorn in ...
IEEE

A Sensitivity Prior Generation With Conditional Diffusion Model for EIT Reconstruction

Abstract: Unsupervised diffusion models excel in image generation and can solve EIT inverse problem, while current methods ignore nonlinear priors including inhomogeneous distributions and require ...
VentureBeat

Anthropic gives Claude shared context across Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, enabling reusable workflows in multiple applications

Anthropic has upgraded its Claude AI model with new capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, marking a strategic move to expand its enterprise footprint and potentially challenging Microsoft’s ...