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Microsoft is closing down Money in Excel, Wolfram support, and more

VamienMcKalin@TWCN — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 03:29:37 +0000

After just two years, Microsoft has decided to put an end to Money in Microsoft Excel. For those who weren’t aware, Money in Excel is a feature that allows people to connect their financial data to Excel sheets, but for reasons unknown to us, the functionality is set to be discontinued alongside other features from […]

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Microsoft Excel users can now write any computation in formula language

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 19:30:46 +0000

Microsoft Excel has been the go-to spreadsheet app for many organizations for the past decades. Microsoft, for one, had kept up with user-demands as well. Thus, Excel has become a reputation system instead of yet another element in the Microsoft Office suite. Taking things further, Microsoft recently announced that Microsoft Excel is Turing-complete. Excel is […]

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Multiple Excel users can soon collaborate on protected spreadsheets

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 22:30:53 +0000

Since its beginning as modern spreadsheet software, Microsoft Excel has had options to protect documents and share them with others. However, the protection tag was also problematic because users needed to remove the tag to make file changes in the first place. Excel to let co-authors collaborate on protected sheets Now, updates from Microsoft Roadmap […]

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Microsoft announces LAMBDA, changes how people build Excel formulas

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 05:31:50 +0000

Excel formulas have been around for quite some time now. Every once in a while, Microsoft Excel rolls out new formulas and updates the existing ones. Recently, Microsoft has announced something that would change the way people build formulas on Excel sheets. According to Microsoft, Excel users will have an option to use the familiar […]

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Now connect Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to live data sources in 3D

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:30:47 +0000

Microsoft Excel is known for its ability to organize and manage data in spreadsheets. However, the Microsoft Office app is no longer limited to a two-dimensional spreadsheet anymore. Excel has introduced a new initiative called data types, which now makes Microsoft Excel a multi-dimensional (3D) tool that can detect patterns, apply logic, and transform data […]

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Microsoft Excel file size error ‘responsible’ for unreported Covid-19 cases in UK

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:30:26 +0000

Nearly 16,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus went unreported in England due to file size limitations of Microsoft Excel, according to reports. In a shocking blunder, the authorities in the UK failed to report tens of thousands of Covid-19 cases due to certain technical issues with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Is Excel responsible for Covid-19 data blunder […]

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Shocking! Malicious Excel spreadsheets spread malware without getting caught

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:30:46 +0000

Security researchers have provided us with a glimpse of a new attack that uses malicious Excel spreadsheets. This way, cyber attackers not only try to spread malware but also bypass security checks. The usage of Excel spreadsheets here raises concerns. By using Excel spreadsheets, all hackers are trying to do is trick security systems into […]

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Excel for Web now rolling out Workbook link support: How it works

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 09:30:14 +0000

Microsoft has started rolling out Workbook Link support to Excel for the Web. Workbook link support makes it easier to keep track of data changes, especially when the data that you require belongs to a different workbook altogether. As a result, now data interoperability between two workbooks in Excel for the Web just got faster […]

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Scientists rename Genes because it confuses Excel

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 06:44:02 +0000

It looks like rewriting human genetics is so much easier than updating Excel after all. According to a new report, default Excel formatting has forced the scientist community into renaming human genes so that they can avoid making errors in their spreadsheets. But how are these two things even related, you may wonder? Keep reading […]

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Avaddon ransomware using malicious Excel 4.0 macros makes comeback, warns Microsoft

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 07:32:28 +0000

An old Avaddon ransomware spreading technique is making a comeback this week, courtesy of malicious Excel 4.0 macros, Microsoft has warned. Microsoft has confirmed that Avaddon ransomware continues to use malicious Excel macros in campaigns. In these campaigns, attackers target victims by sending malicious Excel attachments over emails. This ransomware campaign primarily targets people in […]

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Convert images into Excel sheets using Import Data from Picture in Mac

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 06:49:06 +0000

Microsoft has announced the availability of a new Excel feature for Mac users: Data from Picture. As a result, Mac users can now convert data from printed documents into Excel spreadsheets. This photo scanning functionality to insert data from the picture is already available in Excel mobile app. Excel for Mac gets photo scanning feature […]

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Money in Excel allows users to auto-import financial transactions to spreadsheet, manage finances

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:30:18 +0000

Aiming to help users keep track of their finances, Microsoft Excel has announced the launch of a new premium template Money in Excel. Managing and keeping track of personal finances can be difficult at times, and for several reasons. Sometimes, managing personal finances can be difficult in the absence of the right tools. Microsoft Excel […]

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