Stop losing your manual Excel edits during data updates with this guide to preserving custom columns in Power Query.

Microsoft on Thursday announced new Copilot features aimed at boosting the artificial intelligence tool’s ability to handle a range of financial tasks in Excel. The updates allow teams to create ...

Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.

Power Query and Power Pivot help Excel users manage large datasets more efficiently. Power Query focuses on cleaning and preparing data, while Power Pivot handles analysis and reporting. Together, ...

Today is Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 120 flaws and no zero-days disclosed. This Patch Tuesday addresses 17 "Critical" vulnerabilities, 14 of which are remote code ...

DuckDB is an amazing tool with deep integration with Python and R, but sometimes you just need data in Excel. xlDuckDb allows DuckDB SQL to be run within Excel. Query results are returned as regular ...

In early May 2026, Tableau unveiled its Agentic Analytics Platform, marking a pivotal shift from traditional dashboarding to autonomous, agent-driven decision engines. Simultaneously, OpenAI and ...

This is the Power Query Custom Connector for DuckDB. Use this to connect to a DuckDB database in memory, from a local file or on MotherDuck with Power BI and Excel. Installing How to use with Power BI ...

Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be hard-pressed to find its limitations — and will immediately see how much easier ...