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

Organizing Excel data or transcribing from PDFs. In other words, it is calculated that a task that used to take one hour can now be finished in as little as 9 minutes. Why is it so effective? The ...

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As large language models become more capable, users are tempted to delegate knowledge tasks where models process documents on their behalf and provide the finished results. But how far can you trust ...

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 ...

These tricks show how AI tools, new import formulas, and classic features improve productivity. Excel has outlasted many tech trends, and in the age of AI, it remains very much in the mix. While new ...

Have you ever wished Excel could do more of the heavy lifting for you? Imagine transforming hours of tedious data cleaning and analysis into just a few clicks. That’s exactly what Microsoft’s ...

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. I’ve been using ChatGPT since the day it was released. Back then, ...

While AI has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industry — a $250 billion behemoth — has remained ...

Excel is constantly changing, and this month, you can use the enhanced capabilities of Copilot and Python to speed up your workflow, focus on data analysis, and tailor the program to your requirements ...

Why write SQL queries when you can get an LLM to write the code for you? Query NFL data using querychat, a new chatbot component that works with the Shiny web framework and is compatible with R and ...

See the Releases page for v1.12.1 release notes. This tool enables you to do things with Revit files on a very large scale. Because of this ability, Python or Dynamo scripts that make modifications to ...