Reshaping wide data makes it easier to use familiar Excel tools like PivotTables and charts.

I used to pride myself on being an Excel wizard, but the reality was that I was spending more time fixing broken links and debugging #REF! errors than actually analyzing data. That cycle ended the ...

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The cumbersome process of using Python code in Microsoft Excel data-driven projects will soon be eased by the company's new "Python in Excel" initiative, currently in public preview. Integrating the ...

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What if the tools you already use could do more than you ever imagined? Picture this: you’re working on a massive dataset in Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns. It’s slow, ...

The day I fixed "Company XX" 200 times using Ctrl+HLast October, I had to update the templates for quotes and invoices due to a client's company name change. There were just over 200 files to process.

Last time, I updated the program that converts the "Margin Trading Balance by Stock" PDF published by JPX into Excel using Python.Since the PDF format changed in September 2026 and the previous ...

Although Microsoft sometimes removes features from Excel, it often offers better alternatives and adds completely new capabilities as well. Now, it has shared all the enhancements it has made to its ...