“They Don’t Even Know How to Use Excel”: Companies’ Growing Digital Disillusionment With Not-So-Tech-Savvy Gen Z

Hailed as “digital natives,” members of the Gen Z often fall far short of the promises made about their tech skills.
How-To Geek on MSN

How to use the REDUCE function in Microsoft Excel

Macros are powerful, but they don't work on the web or mobile. I’ve switched to the native REDUCE function for my complex ...

Excel showing formulas, not results [Fix]

If Excel is showing formulas instead of results on your Windows PC, check the cell format, turn off the 'Show Formulas' ...
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Excel LAMBDA vs. SCAN: What's the difference and how do they work together?

LAMBDA defines the custom logic, and SCAN moves that logic through your data range.
BBC

Excel: The software that's hard to quit

In the 1990s some computer games had a "boss key" that allowed staff to call up an Excel spreadsheet if they needed to look like they were working. Now bosses might frown upon a worker caught ...
Quanta Magazine

‘Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...
Redmond Magazine

The New Copilot Function Vastly Improves Microsoft Excel, Part 2

Microsoft’s new Copilot function in Excel lets users generate, analyze and explain data directly from cell formulas, marking a major step toward full AI integration within spreadsheets. Microsoft’s ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

AI A professor lost two years of 'carefully structured academic work' in ChatGPT because of a single setting change: 'These tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability in mind' AI ...
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 ...
New York Post

The Bronx is learning! Charter kids excel on NY math and reading tests, surpassing public school students’ scores by whopping 25%

The Bronx is learning — at least in charter schools. Students from charter schools in the borough’s poorest neighborhoods, including the South Bronx, excelled on state reading and math exams — with ...
The New York Times

Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discovery?

Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence. By Alexander Nazaryan Artificial intelligence can write a ...