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Excel formula basics: The role of the dollar sign

This video explains how the dollar sign is used in Excel formulas to control whether cell references stay fixed or change ...

Excel: The software that's hard to quit

Last year, it emerged that Health New Zealand used an Excel spreadsheet as its "primary data file" for managing and analysing ...

Microsoft Stock Is Entering an ‘Inflection’ Year. What Dan Ives Thinks Is Coming for MSFT.

Nvidia (NVDA) bulls may feel betrayed by Dan Ives. Although the popular tech analyst from Wedbush remains one of the biggest ...
TechRadar

Battle of the pivot tables: Diarmuid ‘The LeBron James of Excel’ Early defeats three-time champion Andrew Ngai to claim the 2025 Excel World Championship and a $5,000 cash ...

Diarmuid Early outperformed eleven rivals in intense thirty-minute Excel challenges The championship included unconventional tasks like creatively folding Excel modules Early received a cash prize and ...
BBC

'It's the golden age of spreadsheet geekery'

"Who doesn't want to be the spreadsheet champion?" That is what the co-founders of the UK Microsoft Excel chapter said when explaining how the everyday computer program Microsoft Excel became a ...
TechSpot

Microsoft open sources 6502 BASIC, a key piece of computing history

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
The Verge

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

AI Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it's time to stop talking about AI 'slop' and start talking about a 'theory of the mind that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier ...
Forbes

Free Online Excel Courses with Certificate

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...