Microsoft recaps Excel’s June 2026 features, including Copilot personalization, more file support, workbook rules, and ...

Excel formulas are getting scary good.

Ford Motor Co. has finally hit upon an electric strategy that shouldn’t lose money. The key element is that it doesn’t involve vehicles — not for now, anyway. Ford’s stock, a habitual water-treader, ...

Differences in the productivity of home-based versus office-based work may arise due to a treatment effect of the office or from workers with different abilities sorting into these locations. We ...

Data wonks, rejoice! Pivot tables now automatically refresh themselves in a new beta version of Microsoft Excel. You might expect that pivot tables—which can be used to summarize rows and columns of ...

Microsoft has finally decided to roll out a highly requested feature in Excel, but it is currently exclusive to Windows and Mac Insiders. Microsoft Excel is one of the most popular software out there, ...

Q. Traditional PivotTables have always intimidated me. I see there is a new Excel function called PIVOTBY. What is the difference between it and the traditional PivotTable? With the PIVOTBY function, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...