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Manual color-coding is breaking your Excel spreadsheets—here's the fix

Stop painting cells and use conditional formatting to build accessible, formula-ready, and automated Excel spreadsheets.
Opinion

“The next big lemming-like rush will be to artificial intelligence”: While 1985 was hailed as the year of AI, Bill Gates ignored the hype to focus on ‘softer software’

Bill Gates didn’t reject intelligence in software back then, rather he rejected the mythology around it. By talking about “softer software,” he envisioned systems that learned from users, adapted to ...
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I build all my calendars in Excel—here's how you can too

Stay on top of your personal and work commitments.

Build an Excel Checklist Thast Updates Itself with Tables & Checkboxes

Create a self-updating Excel checklist with checkboxes, IFS due-date priority, and a progress data bar for faster tracking.

Bitcoin remains under pressure, hovers just above $71,000

Bitcoin extended its decline on February 5, entering one of its weakest stretches since late 2024. The world’s largest cryptocurrency was trading at $71,296 at 9.04 am, down 6.68 percent over the past ...
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Satya Nadella: The evolution of coding tools to autonomous agents, why macro delegation and micro stealing are vital for productivity, and the need for a new metaphor in the AI ...

Macro delegation and micro stealing are essential concepts in coding and knowledge work. Digital employees can be created by extending identities for agents. The structural change in knowledge work is ...