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How to simplify complex Excel formulas for better auditing

Tables, named ranges, line breaks, modern functions, and helper columns make Excel formulas easier to read, audit, and fix.
How-To Geek on MSN

Document formulas in Excel like code with N() function

The simplest way to start documenting Excel formulas like a coder is by using the N () function. Although its primary job is to convert non-numeric values into numbers, it has a hidden quirk: because ...
PC Gamer

Ron Gilbert canceled his Zelda-inspired RPG, in part because a good publisher is hard to come by these days: 'It's like they have formulas that they apply to games to try to ...

Ron Gilbert is something akin to PC gaming royalty, having worked on all-time greats like The Secret of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion—he also designed the Mona Lisa of edutainment, Freddi Fish and ...
KCTV News

Kansas City teen uses Make-A-Wish to help children battling cancer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City teenager who beat cancer is using his Make-A-Wish to help other children facing similar battles this holiday season. Jack Punswick, 18, was diagnosed with Hodgkin ...
ZDNet

Microsoft's new AI agents create your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint projects now

Microsoft announced new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They can help to shrink the gap between ideation and production. Other Copilot updates include an expanded Voice mode. In the era of AI ...
Las Vegas Sun

How Formula One teams make the numbers add up to a successful race

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. The ...
The New York Times

Source: Goldman Sachs to become majority stakeholder of Excel Sports Management

Goldman Sachs will make an investment into Excel that will make it a majority stakeholder, according to one person briefed on the deal. Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Goldman Sachs has taken an ...
Ars Technica

Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have spent the better part of the president’s second term radically reshaping the federal government. But in recent weeks, the GOP has set its sights on ...
Wired

The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have spent the better part of the president’s second term radically reshaping the federal government. But in recent weeks, the GOP has set its sights on ...
New York Post

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

A top US Army general stationed in South Korea said he’s been turning to an artificial intelligence chatbot to help him think through key command and personal decisions — the latest sign that even the ...
Ars Technica

Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”

Last month, OpenAI published a usage study showing that nearly 15 percent of work-related conversations on ChatGPT had to deal with “making decisions and solving problems.” Now comes word that at ...