Master Microsoft Excel with this $40 training

Posted on 02/11/2020 by Engadget

Microsoft Excel is the industry-standard spreadsheet program used by companies worldwide. Anyone serious about data analysis or data visualization needs to learn Excel as it has more built-in functions and formulas than its chief competitor, Google S...

An Excel error may have led England to under-report COVID-19 cases

Posted on 05/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

A day after the UK government announced its highest number of new coronavirus cases in England, the reason behind the drastic rise has reportedly been revealed. According to multiple sources, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet containing laboratory result...

Making Music with Microsoft Excel

Posted on 06/12/2019 by Paul Strauss

Microsoft Excel has long been one of the most popular pieces of business software, and is used by pretty much every company on the planet to create spreadsheets, databases, charts, tables, and financial models. It also can be used to play video games. Now, it turns out it can make music as well.

Using custom Visual Basic macros and buttons, musician Dylan Tallchief was able to create a working drum machine sequencer that works right Excel. The trick is that it generates MIDI signals and sends them to either a virtual synthesizer on your computer, or to an external MIDI device. Check it out in action in the video below:

If you’ve got Excel 2019 or Office 365 and want to give this thing a whirl, you can download the Excel Drum Machine spreadsheet on Google Drive, and if you enjoy what you heard, consider supporting Dylan on Patreon.

Someone made a version of ‘Civilization’ that runs in Microsoft Excel

Posted on 09/09/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Do you pine for the classic strategy games of the past? For a time when gameplay was more important than graphics? Are you looking to reproduce the Amiga experience at work, where your company blocks access to everything except Microsoft Office? Then...

Import Excel data just by photographing a spreadsheet

Posted on 01/03/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Microsoft recently rolled out a number of major updates to its products, including a particularly handy new feature for Excel. Using the Android version of the app, users will be able to snap a photo of a printed data table and have it converted into...

Microsoft will release Office 2016 Later This Year

Posted on 23/01/2015 by affam

Microsoft has announced its touch-optimized version of Office, namely Office 2016, for Windows 10 to allow the people and organization to attain more in their quest. The Office team has a goal to...

Office For iPad gets Print Support

Posted on 30/04/2014 by forbes

Last month, Microsoft launched iPad apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint as part of the Office for iPad suite. All three of the apps are now updated with printing capabilities using Apple's AirPrint...

Office Online goes to the Chrome Web Store

Posted on 15/04/2014 by gene

Microsoft's push into cloud and mobile computing has been very evident since Satya Nadella took the role as the company's CEO.Just a few months after introducing Office Online at Office.com, and...

Microsoft embraces the future with Windows 9

Posted on 01/04/2014 by ahmed

So Microsoft would finally be willing to let go of the old Windows platform and soon it will be showering us with the details of its next major Windows release this week at Build 2014 as reported by...

Five Business Intelligence Predictions For 2014

Posted on 02/01/2014 by forbes

The following guest post is by Prakash Nanduri, Co-Founder and CEO of Paxata. The dust is finally beginning to clear from the big data explosion, which is a good thing. One of the problems with big...