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The strangest Excel functions you'll never use

D espite its age, Excel continues to evolve with new functions being added over time. There are newer better Excel functions ...

Struggling with Excel Formula Errors? This Guide Has the Answers

Fix Excel formulas that won’t spill! Learn how to troubleshoot #VALUE errors caused by Analysis ToolPak functions and improve your workflow.

Excel’s New Clean Data Button Will Save You Hours : But There’s a Catch

Is Excel's Clean Data button the ultimate time-saver for messy spreadsheets? Find out how it works, its quirks, and how it compares to Power Query ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel ... is the text that appears before the dash and color. See the formula for this in the screenshot below. The TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions ...
9to5Mac

T-Mobile customer call and text data captured from unencrypted satellite comms; military data too

Security researchers at two US universities were able to intercept T-Mobile customer call and text data from completely unencrypted satellite communications. Researchers were also able to eavesdrop on ...
SiliconANGLE

Reddit is suing Perplexity and AI data scraping firms for using its data without permission

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...
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Learning REDUCE in Excel completely changed how I use spreadsheets

REDUCE allows you to iterate through your data, building your result step-by-step, in the same way a loop operates in a programming language. Instead of scattering your intermediate calculations ...
MarketWatch

The Fed has a big decision to make without key data. Here’s what it could do.

As they prepare to meet in 10 days on interest rates, Federal Reserve officials are very divided over a key question: How worried they ought to be about the U.S. labor market. “Some folks are less ...
Tom's Guide

AT&T settles $177 million data breach lawsuit — here's how you can claim your share up to $7,500

Ready, set, save! Become a Tom's Guide member and start saving on your Black Friday shopping now. Members get access to our range of exclusive offers, rewards, competitions, games and more. For ...
TweakTown

Microsoft's Gaming Copilot watches you game and captures that data for 'model training'

TL;DR: Microsoft's Windows 11 Xbox App includes a Gaming Copilot AI assistant that captures and analyzes PC gaming via screenshots to train its AI models. Users should review and disable these ...
Wall Street Journal

Shutdown Leaves Fed in Dark on Data as It Weighs Next Rate Move

An extended government shutdown is raising the prospect that Federal Reserve officials will make their next interest-rate decision without key economic data that could reconcile a debate over how far ...
Reuters

Cloud data firm Veeam to buy Securiti AI for $1.73 billion

Oct 21 (Reuters) - Veeam Software has agreed to buy data privacy management software maker Securiti AI for about $1.73 billion, in a bid to tap customers seeking to safeguard and manage cloud data ...