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Old Excel functions you should stop using (and what to replace them with)

VLOOKUP has been the go-to function for looking up data in Excel for years, but it comes with limitations. You can only ...
How-To Geek on MSN

6 Functions That Changed How You Use Microsoft Excel

Use Excel for web or the Excel for Microsoft 365 desktop app for the latest Excel features, including the newest dynamic ...
CNET

Locking Your Social Security Number Can Protect You From Identity Theft – Here's How It Works

Geoff Williams is a journalist and author. His byline has appeared in numerous publications, including U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo Finance, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, LIFE magazine ...
Windows Report

How to Combine 2 Columns With a Space in Excel

There could be times during your daily workflow when you may want to combine 2 columns in Excel with a space. Let’s say you have first names in one column and last names in another. Now, instead of ...
The Verge

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

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 ...
Reader's Digest

This Is Why Corn on the Cob Only Ever Has an Even Number of Rows

We promise we won't give you a pop (corn) quiz at the end When I was a little girl, I used to play counting games while I ate corn on the cob. First, I would count the number of bites it took me to ...
TWCN Tech News

How to create Progress Bars in Excel

In this post, we’ll show you how to create progress bars in Excel on a Windows 11/10 PC. Progress bars are quite popular in Excel. They’re often used to display task completion percentages, monitor ...
WBEZ

CPS is reducing assistants assigned to some special ed classes, worrying educators and parents

Theresa Nuestro’s sons are among the thousands of Chicago Public Schools students who depend on special education classroom assistants to keep them safe and focused in classes. That’s why Nuestro and ...
Geeky Gadgets

The Zero-Click Excel Trick That Will Save You Hours of Work : Goodbye Blank Rows

Have you ever spent countless minutes—or even hours—manually deleting blank rows in Excel, only to realize there’s a faster, smarter way? For years, the process of cleaning up spreadsheets has been a ...
The New York Times

How Mexico’s Vote on Nearly 2,700 Judges Could Empower One Party

The election to overhaul Mexico’s courts could result in a justice system more beholden to the nation’s dominant party, Morena. By Jack Nicas and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Reporting from Mexico City ...
Variety

As Bob Dylan Turns 84, Why His Outlaw Music Festival With Willie Nelson Is This Year’s Mustn’t-Miss Tour: Age Is Nothing but a Number, Until It’s Everything

Last weekend, they played the Hollywood Bowl, and if you’re in L.A., maybe you were tempted to skip it — maybe you in fact did — because they’d just done it the year before. What a foolish notion that ...