Tag Archives: Excel

With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”

With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”

For certain kinds of simple applications, you can generate something usable this way. However, it often falls apart completely as you scale to more complex applications, and in any case, it’s almost definitely going to introduce problems that you are less likely to see than if you wrote the application yourself, leading to (among other things) deep technical debt. Again, …

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Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint – how to use them

Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint – how to use them

Microsoft Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop. Microsoft 365 users looking for assistance in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can now call on …

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Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

You’ve probably heard of vibe coding — novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt — but now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps. The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt. A new Office Agent in Copilot …

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iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone Air excel in bend tests, still fragile for drop tests – AppleInsider

iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone Air excel in bend tests, still fragile for drop tests  AppleInsider Apple’s iPhone 17 Line Wins By Returning the Focus to Hardware  Bloomberg.com The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era | Dave Schilling  The Guardian Review: The new iPhone Air is the sexiest iPhone I’ve ever tested  Mashable iPhone Air Proves That Thinner Can Be Better, …

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Hamnet review – Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal excel in stately Shakespeare drama with overwhelming finale | Toronto film festival 2025

Hamnet review – Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal excel in stately Shakespeare drama with overwhelming finale | Toronto film festival 2025

Maggie O’Farrell’s lauded 2020 novel Hamnet is a dense and lyrical imagining of the lives of William Shakespeare’s family, full of interior thought and lush descriptions of the physical world. It would seem, upon reading, near impossible to adapt into a film. Or, at least, a film worthy of O’Farrell’s so finely woven sensory spell. Film-maker Chloé Zhao has attempted …

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Forget ChatGPT, Excel Remains the Most in-Demand Skill

Forget ChatGPT, Excel Remains the Most in-Demand Skill

AI is fueling talent wars in Silicon Valley, but one of the most coveted skills in the industry is more than four decades old. Microsoft Excel, first released all the way back in 1985, is still the most cited skill in job listings. Course Report, which tracks the tech education industry, including coding bootcamps, recently reviewed more than 12 million …

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Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel is testing a new AI-powered function that can automatically fill cells in your spreadsheets, which is similar to the feature that Google Sheets rolled out in June. You would use the “COPILOT” function followed by a natural language prompt and (optionally) specify the cells you want it to reference; the AI would then classify information, generate summaries, create …

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Excel + AI: Microsoft brings new ‘COPILOT’ function directly into spreadsheet cells – GeekWire

Excel + AI: Microsoft brings new ‘COPILOT’ function directly into spreadsheet cells  GeekWire Microsoft Excel gets more AI — and this time it’s actually useful  Windows Central Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells  The Verge Excel introduces co-pilot function  heise online There wasn’t enough Copilot in Excel, so Microsoft added more  PCWorld Source link

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