As PCMag's resident data journalist, I practically live in Microsoft Excel. I've learned that it's capable of far more than I ...

Excel’s FIND function detects case differences to prevent mismatched IDs, flawed lookups, and hidden data errors.

Because many password generators aren't as random as they seem, I built an improved one in Excel—and I'll show you exactly ...

They may look harmless, but they're certainly capable of turning your spreadsheets into traffic jams.

Sometimes, the YEAR function returns the correct value, but Excel displays an unexpected year, such as 1900 or 1905. This occurs when the cell containing the YEAR formula is formatted as a Date ...

If you often work with data that starts life as a text file or CSV, Microsoft Excel now has new built-in tools that simplify how that information gets pulled into a spreadsheet. The update introduces ...

Funding direct costs supports the expenses that can be specifically identified with a particular project such as researchers, supplies and travel. Funding indirect costs supports the critical ...

Microsoft’s new Copilot function in Excel lets users generate, analyze and explain data directly from cell formulas, marking a major step toward full AI integration within spreadsheets. Microsoft’s ...