Macros are powerful, but they don't work on the web or mobile. I’ve switched to the native REDUCE function for my complex ...

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.

This video explains how the dollar sign is used in Excel formulas to control whether cell references stay fixed or change when copied. It covers absolute, relative, and mixed references, helping users ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Excel is a powerhouse at transforming and manipulating data, thanks to a wide variety of Excel formulas and in-app tools. Add Power Query to this already powerful mix, and you get an even more ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...