HeyJaredTony Phillips
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Microsoft keeps removing or abandoning the Excel features that made it so useful (opens the original)
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Technology has a habit of quietly removing things we thought would be around forever. Floppy disks gave way to USB drives, film cameras were lost to digital photography, and vinyl was barged out of the way by CDs and streaming before making an unexpected comeback. Sometimes the replacement is better, but other times you spend years wondering why someone decided the old way needed fixing. Excel has had plenty of those moments. I was excited when Microsoft partnered with Wolfram in 2020. The idea
I connected Excel to a folder on my PC, and my weekly report now updates itself (opens the original)
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I used to hate combining weekly Excel reports. Copying data from one workbook to another works well enough, but it gets tedious when you have to do it every week. Then you have to remember whether you've done it, or worry about overwriting existing data. Thankfully, Excel can connect to a folder and combine those files for you, and even though it sounds like Excel wizardry, the setup takes just four simple steps. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also
Your Excel file is secretly sharing more than you think. Here's how to check (opens the original)
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You probably don't think much about privacy when you're sending someone an Excel file. After all, it's just a spreadsheet, and you can see what's on the sheets before you send it. The thing is, a workbook can actually contain more than the cells you can see. It might still have your name in its metadata, a hidden worksheet you forgot about, or a file path pointing to a folder on your computer. Excel for Windows has a built-in Document Inspector that checks your workbook for potentially hidden, p
6 LibreOffice Calc features that handle jobs you'd normally use Excel for (opens the original)
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LibreOffice Calc is often dismissed as a spreadsheet that's fine for basic number crunching, but something you'd quickly outgrow as soon as your work gets serious. As someone who's used Excel for decades, I understand that view. Excel is incredibly powerful, and after all this time, I still find myself reaching for it when I need to get something done. But rather than take that assumption at face value, I put Calc—part of the free, open-source LibreOffice suite—through six tasks I'd normally ass
Excel tables do way more than format your data—7 things I actually use them for (opens the original)
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Excel tables don't exactly sound exciting. You select some data, press Ctrl+T, and Excel gives you a nicely formatted block with distinct headers and banded rows. Very professional; very Excel. If that's all you think tables are for, I wouldn't blame you. I've been using Excel for decades, and even I sometimes take tables for granted. But the real benefit is what happens next. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you
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