Excel has quietly gained dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP, Power Query, and Python, yet many still work the old way.

Microsoft Corp. is releasing a new version of Excel that will enable users to write and run Python code directly in the spreadsheet editor’s interface. Stefan Kinnestrand, a general manager for ...

Let’s be honest—Excel can feel like a double-edged sword. On one hand, it’s an incredibly powerful tool for organizing data, crunching numbers, and making sense of the chaos. On the other, mastering ...

Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a programming language is paying off, recently being deemed Turing ...

Microsoft recently announced exciting updates for Microsoft 365 Insider users. On June 28, the company invited users to test two new functions in Excel: TRANSLATE and DETECTLANGUAGE. These new tools ...

Excel’s formula bar has limitations that make writing, debugging, and managing complex formulas challenging. A new tool, the Advanced Formula Environment (AFE), developed by Microsoft for Excel 2019 ...

Microsoft’s Copilot in Excel is enabling users to carry out data analysis, formula creation, and visualization through natural language prompts, reducing manual setup and repetitive work. While the ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new feature called LAMBDA for Excel, which allows users to create custom functions based on Excel formulas. These functions are reusable and support recursion. Microsoft has ...

Microsoft today announced the public preview of Python in Excel, which will allow advanced spreadsheet users to combine scripts in the popular Python language and their usual Excel formulas in the ...