Excel: The software that's hard to quit

Last year, it emerged that Health New Zealand used an Excel spreadsheet as its "primary data file" for managing and analysing its financial performance. This made collection and consolidation of data ...

Excel tip: Define cell names to cut errors and speed up your formulas

Using the example in our spreadsheet or a similar spreadsheet, highlight all the revenue numbers in the sheet and then in the ...

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This bundle combines Microsoft’s professional-grade IDE with guided programming courses to help beginners build real coding ...

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.