I won the Microsoft Excel World Championship. Here's what every office worker should know about Excel.

Diarmuid Early won first place in the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship. He has some pointers for using Excel at work.
How-To Geek on MSN

Stop wrestling with text in Excel: These 8 tools are game-changers

Fix "fake" numbers, strip hidden web spaces, and join text professionally using Excel's built-in legacy and modern tools.

Put Excel into Easy Mode by Implementing First Normal Form (1NF)

Excel's query tool reshapes messy imports into 1NF, so AVERAGEIFS replaces hacks and your summaries run faster.
Redmond Magazine

What You Need To Know About Using Python in Excel

One of the most useful new features that Microsoft has incorporated into Excel in recent years is the ability to incorporate Python code directly into a spreadsheet. While it has long been possible to ...
Business Insider

OpenAI's chair is 'optimistic' about how AI will change work, and pointed to Excel to explain why

Bret Taylor said that because of AI, some jobs are about to undergo a "tumultuous" five years. But he said he was "optimistic" about how the tech would transform work. He said that Microsoft Excel ...
Business Insider

I started a TikTok to teach people about Excel, and it's grown into a 7-figure business. Here's how I turned my side hustle into a full-time job.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kat Norton created a TikTok account teaching Excel functions. Since then, she's garnered hundreds of thousands of followers and earned up to six figures in a ...
TechRepublic

How to generate random numbers with no duplicates in Excel

How to generate random numbers with no duplicates in Excel Your email has been sent Over the last few months, I’ve written about several of Excel’s new dynamic array functions. They’re powerful and ...
JournalofAccountancy

What is so special about Paste Special in Excel?

Q. What is the difference between a regular paste in Microsoft Excel and Paste Special? A. As an accountant, you know how to copy or cut and paste in Microsoft Excel. On PCs, it’s as simple as Ctrl+C ...