If you’ve been feeling constrained by Microsoft Excel’s methods for manipulating data, you’re in luck—Python can now be used within your spreadsheets. The inclusion of the popular ...

Uncover hidden features, new uses for old tools, and handy workarounds to speed up your everyday work in the powerful spreadsheet application.

At the Microsoft 365 Copilot livestream event, the tech giant unveiled the next phase of its AI-powered tools, which include automating Excel data analysis, PowerPoint design, and more.

Microsoft Excel remains the top spreadsheet application available today, with a long list of built-in data calculation and visualization tools. But other spreadsheet software aren’t far behind.

As with the other apps in Microsoft’s suite, Excel’s interface is much more cluttered than Numbers, Apple’s alternative.

Microsoft Excel—the famed spreadsheet application with number-crunching and graphing capabilities—is the defining software of the white-collar workplace.

Microsoft Excel spreadsheets can contain scripts known as macros. Macros are small, simple programs within Excel (or other Office programs) that can automate common tasks.