Diarmuid Early won first place in the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship. He has some pointers for using Excel at work.

The simplest way to start documenting Excel formulas like a coder is by using the N () function. Although its primary job is to convert non-numeric values into numbers, it has a hidden quirk: because ...

There are two ways to fix this cause of the #SPILL! error. First, select the entire spill range (or at least the cell or cells causing the blockage), and drag it to another area in the worksheet. On ...

PDFs are great for sharing documents—they keep layouts, fonts, and images intact no matter what device you open them on. But when it’s time to make edits, add comments, or collaborate with others, ...

Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.

A simple and easy-to-use offline tool for automatically filling Word tables based on a custom knowledge base. Previously, I released an open-source application called ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a PDF file, wishing you could just pull the data into Excel and get to work? Whether it’s a financial report, a client list, or a data-heavy table, PDFs can ...

UPDATE: Now we know why this is happening so quietly: Microsoft says this free, ad-supported version of Office is only a test. Here’s the statement. –Paul “Microsoft has been conducting some limited ...

I cannot tell you how many times I've received a PDF document with the expectation that I'm going to either use the text to create something new or to edit the copy. That's all fine and good when I'm ...