Python has made using Microsoft Excel much easier than it has ever been, and it isn't very hard to start using it yourself.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Claude can now work across Excel and PowerPoint with shared context The AI chatbot interface ...

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday release fixes 83 flaws Including an Excel bug which enables AI-driven zero-click data theft Update urged to block exfiltration via Copilot assistant The March 2026 ...

The big headlines on this release are efficiency, with OpenAI reporting that GPT-5.4 uses far fewer tokens (47% fewer on some tasks) than its predecessors).

Microsoft has woven its generative AI technology throughout Microsoft 365, the company’s productivity suite. Its Copilot AI assistant is most often used in M365 apps for text-oriented actions, such as ...

The actors behind Flash Fill Sumit acknowledges 5 sets of people in this 5-minute award acceptance talk for his "most influential" POPL 2011 paper, which describes the technology behind the popular ...

The best college spreadsheet warriors gathered in Las Vegas in December for the Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge to find out whose data skills will triumph.

We noted that Excel turned 40 this year. That makes it seem old, and today, if you say “spreadsheet,” there’s a good chance you are talking about an Excel spreadsheet, and if not, at least a program ...

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With a new set of Microsoft 365 features, knowledge workers will be able to generate complex Word documents or Excel spreadsheets using only text prompts to Microsoft’s chatbot. Two distinct products ...

Despite millions spent on financial software, many finance teams still rely on Excel to close their books and reconcile numbers while preparing them for audit. Two former Microsoft executives view it ...

Anthropic has begun rolling out a small but significant update to Claude. Starting today you can use the chatbot to create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slide decks and PDFs. In ...