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I use Excel all day—the simple Ctrl+1 shortcut does 80% of the work

Ctrl+1 streamlines the Excel workflow, efficiently handling most of my day-to-day and advanced formatting needs. Universal control: Ctrl+1 works on cells, charts, and shapes, offering a single, ...
TimesLIVE

Pretoria student beats competitors from 130 countries to win Excel world title

Pieter Pienaar, a master of commerce accounting science student, finished first at the 2025 Microsoft Excel Collegiate ...
Techzine Europe

Database administration in 2025: how DBAs are reinventing themselves

Database administrators are reinventing themselves. Data roams freely, AI is advancing, and governance is lagging behind. Yet ...
eWeek

Midea's Six-Armed Bot Is the Ultimate Flex

Midea Group's MIRO U isn't your average humanoid; it's a wheeled torso sprouting six coordinated arms that juggle three jobs ...
Bizcommunity

Pretoria student wins global Excel esports competition

Pieter Pienaar, an MCom Accounting Sciences student at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been named the winner of the 2025 ...

Shadow spreadsheets: The security gap your tools can’t see

When official systems can't support everyday workflows, employees turn to spreadsheets — creating "shadow spreadsheets" that ...
VentureBeat

Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for finance, integrates with Excel to rival Microsoft Copilot

Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and ...
Mashable

Anthropic Claude can now create spreadsheets and slide decks for you

Claude can now do the tedious grunt work of creating files for you. On Tuesday, Anthropic shared a new feature for Claude where users can ask it to create Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoints, Word ...
AppleInsider

Inside Apple's Numbers - how it compares to Microsoft Excel

Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be hard-pressed to find its limitations — and will immediately see how much easier ...
The Verge

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a group of cells. The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a ...
GeekWire

Excel + AI: Microsoft brings new ‘COPILOT’ function directly into spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyze data directly in spreadsheet cells using plain-language prompts. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is building generative ...
Mashable

The Shortcut AI Excel agent could 'one-shot' spreadsheet jobs. Here's how to try it.

There's a new AI agent on the block for people who spend their waking hours inside spreadsheets. Navigate to Shortcut AI's website, and you'll find a page that looks almost exactly like an empty ...