Over time I’ve learned quite a lot of useful shortcuts for Windows. Shortcuts can save a lot of time, so I’d like to share ...

Keyboard shortcuts can supercharge your productivity - if you know what they are. Here are essential shortcuts every Windows user should know.

If you've used data validation in Excel before, you probably selected the relevant cells, clicked "Data Validation" in the Data tab on the ribbon, and created the rule in the Data Validation dialog ...

VLOOKUP has been the go-to function for looking up data in Excel for years, but it comes with limitations. You can only search in the leftmost column and return values to the right. If your lookup ...

The conundrum of the Chiefs’ 2025 season is both as old as football and entirely unlike any situation the NFL has seen before. Consider several factors, all true at the same time, each tethered to all ...

A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

The inaugural finals of the UK Excel Championship have come and gone, and there is now one spreadsheet wrangler to rule them all, at least in the United Kingdom. The winner is self-proclaimed Excel ...

Q. I currently keep a static to-do list, and I would like to update it to be more dynamic. Do you have any advice? A. Microsoft Excel is best known for crunching numbers, but it’s also a powerful tool ...

“The sheer amount of information noise in the world has increased,” he said. “Attention is the most precious commodity we have, and it’s important for communicators to find ways to get the attention ...

The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a group of cells. The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a ...

It's that time of the month again: when Microsoft recaps everything new that it introduced in Excel during the past four weeks. This roundup is useful because it allows us to see the improvements ...

A Column Chart can be used to create the most common form of a timeline in Excel, which consists of a horizontal layout with a time-based X-axis and events or milestones plotted along it. To create a ...