As exciting as it is to add AI to a productivity tool, the reality is the end results are going to be limited no matter how sophisticated the AI is. Earlier this year Microsoft announced it would ...

I've written many times about the many benefits of formatting your data as a structured table in Microsoft Excel. However, despite this, there's one major issue that continues to throw a spanner in ...

Q. Help! I imported 140,000 rows of data into Excel with each row containing two-digit-year dates formatted as text, but I need to display four-digit-year dates. I’ve tried numerous approaches ...

Navigating the world of Excel can sometimes feel like trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces. If you’ve ever found yourself wrestling with the XLOOKUP function, only to be met with a chaotic ...

In the Java Q&A entitled “It’s Excel-lent,” I presented a method for reading Microsoft Excel documents via JDBC. Read Tony Sintes’s entire Java/Microsoft Excel series (JavaWorld): “It’s Excel-lent” ...

An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).

Few things frustrate us more than the inability to crack an Excel task independently. We love formulas and conditional cells, but the best way to utilize these features isn’t always easy. Tap or click ...