In January, I started reading a thick book about digging the Panama Canal. We were set to visit Panama at the end of that month, so I figured some historical backstory was in order. It’s now July, and ...

Q. I often perform horizontal, vertical, and trend analysis for clients. Each time revised financial statements arrive, I find myself recreating formulas, rechecking ranges, and confirming that ...

You can now ask the Gemini app to directly generate “downloadable and ready-to-share files.” Google wants you to “quickly move from a brainstorm to a complete ...

Microsoft is rolling out a useful feature for Office users this week. The company has introduced Agent Mode inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, a more powerful version of the Copilot experience that ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

Anthropic upgraded Claude’s Excel and PowerPoint add-ins with shared context, reusable Skills, and cross-app workflows for business users. Anthropic is expanding the capabilities of its AI assistant, ...

Microsoft is expanding data loss prevention (DLP) controls to block the Microsoft 365 Copilot AI assistant from processing confidential Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, regardless of their ...

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Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Starlink customers are the latest grist for the AI mill. The ...

These tricks show how AI tools, new import formulas, and classic features improve productivity. Excel has outlasted many tech trends, and in the age of AI, it remains very much in the mix. While new ...

If you often work with data that starts life as a text file or CSV, Microsoft Excel now has new built-in tools that simplify how that information gets pulled into a spreadsheet. The update introduces ...

Some users have reported that when they open MS Outlook, they receive an error message that Outlook is using an old copy of your Outlook data file (.ost). For some ...