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Stop using so many tabs in Microsoft Excel

Fragmenting your data across many Excel tabs is a common habit that silently kills file performance, introduces hidden errors ...
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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 ...
JournalofAccountancy

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

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...

This Simple Excel Trick Makes Dynamic Filters Update Themselves in Seconds

Learn how DROP, REDUCE, LAMBDA, and STACK make Excel arrays update automatically, split text, and stack filtered results ...
Security Boulevard

GUEST ESSAY: How to defend against decision mimicry — a practical AI-era checklist for ...

AI is getting better at mimicking how leaders think — not just how they sound. Related: Can AI mimic my personality? The latest wave of deepfake attacks isn’t about dramatic voice-cloning or bold ...

Sneaky Mermaid attack in Microsoft 365 Copilot steals data

Researcher Adam Logue discovered the data-stealing exploit, which abuses M365 Copilot's built-in support for Mermaid diagrams ...
Tax Guru

How to Claim Input Tax Credit (ITC) for Previous Month Invoices in GST

Explains the correct process for claiming past ITC using GSTR-2B data and filing within the annual return deadline. Key takeaway: claim only reflected ITC to avoid variance notices and defer unmatched ...