Diarmuid Early won first place in the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship. He has some pointers for using Excel at work.

Spreadsheets are a nerd’s data-driven dream. For most regular people, though, they’re a complicated mess. Fortunately, they don’t need to be. Here’s how to bend data to your will with Microsoft Excel ...

Microsoft Excel provides a way for you to personalize the spreadsheets your business uses to your liking and save those customizations as the standard default settings. At some point, if you want to ...

Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets still spread malware in recent phishing campaigns. A recent cybersecurity report found out that Excel spreadsheets, which most of us assume are pretty harmless, ...

Calculating payroll can be a time-consuming endeavor, so automating as much of the process as possible will save you hundreds of hours by the end of the year. Fortunately, Microsoft Excel comes with a ...

As Excel spreadsheets act more and more like Web pages—with data being pulled from many sources—the loss of just one data point can bring the whole thing crashing down. Microsoft’s new Office 365 ...

Low-code, no-code or visual-based coding is getting more attention these days. Enter low-code or no-code. The promise of low- and no-code platforms is that business users can create mobile and web ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. With the next version of Office, Microsoft is trying to ...

Last year, a Facebook application called HardlyWork.in made news by providing an alternative interface for the social network — putting a user’s Facebook news feed inside a fake Excel spreadsheet, ...