Excel remains popular in business for its familiar interface, data tools, and broad feature set. Open-source alternatives like LibreOffice Calc and Gnumeric offer compatibility with Excel files.

After nearly eight months in public preview, Power BI for Office 365 is now generally available. Microsoft is aiming to unlock business intelligence for everyone with the new add-on service for Office ...

Create a CRM using Excel with dropdown customer selection and FILTER plus XLOOKUP, saving time while keeping leads and deals organized.

Handle millions of rows by loading queries into Power Pivot, building relationships, and creating measures for fast variance ...

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 ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

You will get an error if Flash Fill cannot find the pattern. The first thing to check is that you're using Flash Fill close to the source data (e.g., in the adjacent cell). For instance, it won't work ...

Microsoft has begun rolling out “Money in Excel,” a one-stop dashboard within Microsoft Excel for viewing your day-to-day finances, including bank and credit card transactions. Microsoft recommends ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft has new updates in store this week for Excel ...

“Maybe 10% to 20% of employees today use BI tools on any given day,” says Eron Kelly, general manager of SQL Server Marketing at Microsoft. “We want to help businesses grow the number of users. We’re ...