Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.

A PyXLL extension that embeds a Claude Code terminal directly into Microsoft Excel as a dockable Custom Task Pane. Chat with Claude in natural language to write Python functions, read and write cell ...

Google has upgraded NotebookLM with a new reasoning engine, expanded file output options, and a more flexible research workflow, giving the AI notebook tool a broader set of capabilities for handling ...

The power of Python trumps Excel workbooks.

XLIDE gives Excel VBA projects a modern VS Code workspace. Add one or more .xlsm, .xlsb, or .xlam workbooks to your VS Code project and XLIDE detects them automatically. Navigate each workbook's VBA ...

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 ...

Over the last few weeks, Microsoft has focused on increasing the power of Copilot and Python to assist with everyday tasks, offering more flexibility with drawing tools, and giving you more control ...

Windows may get all the attention, but when you want to get real work done, you turn to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel. Excel is, of course, ...

Most people are familiar with data in the form of a spreadsheet, with labeled columns of different data types such as name, address, age, and so on. Databases work the same way, with each table laid ...