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3 Excel updates you won't want to miss (and none of them involves Copilot)

Microsoft is making it easier to center across selection, name tables as you create them, and store multiple values in one ...

Excel's AI function has been discontinued. What remains is Power Query

The AI is gone. Your work remains.On September 14, 2026, Microsoft discontinued the =COPILOT() function in Excel.It lasted ...

6 Powerful Microsoft Copilot in Excel Use Cases & Workflow Examples

Streamline your spreadsheets with six practical Copilot in Excel use cases. Run multiple custom skills to create budget vs ...

The reason why I, who used to waste 2-3 hours struggling with broken Excel queries, 'stopped using even VLOOKUP'

Hello, this is Mizuki.When I was thrown into my current workplace with almost zero seconds of handover from my predecessor, ...
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ApproximateDistinctCount In Power BI Is Sometimes Slower Than DistinctCount

As a follow-on from last week’s post about the new ApproximateDistinctCount function in DAX, I want to share something I found out from my recent testing for this function: ApproximateDistinctCount is ...
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Excel breaks when your data gets messy. Here's what I use instead

Linked workbooks are a database in disguise, so it's time to treat them like one.