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The latest Excel coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Diarmuid Early Wins Microsoft Excel World Championship 2025: AI, Esports & Spreadsheet Mastery
Ireland's Diarmuid Early has been crowned champion of the Microsoft Excel World Championship after a tense Las Vegas final that transformed spreadsheets into high-stakes competitive spectacle,...
Excel’s AI Agent Mode launches live in December 2024 build, plus redesigned Get Data dialog.
Microsoft's December 2024 Excel updates represent a significant leap forward in spreadsheet functionality, introducing four major enhancements that promise to transform how users interact with data,...
Satya Nadella's 1993 Excel Demo Resurfaces as AI Rewrites Spreadsheet History
A grainy CRT monitor, a thick-haired young engineer in a suit, and a patient walkthrough of data flowing from an IBM AS/400 into Microsoft Excel — a 1993 clip of Satya Nadella at work has...
Microsoft Retires Visio Data Visualizer: Complete Guide to Transition & Alternatives
Microsoft has officially confirmed the retirement of the Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel, marking the end of a popular tool that has helped countless users transform spreadsheet data into...
Your iPhone Copilot App Will Stop Editing Office Docs on September 15 – Here’s What You Must Do
Microsoft will disable all editing capabilities for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files inside its Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iPhone on September 15, 2025, forcing users to switch to the standalone...
Visier’s Vee Wins Top HR Product Award—and It’s Now Inside Word, Excel, and Teams
Human Resource Executive named Visier’s Vee the Top HR Product of the Year on June 12, less than two months after the company stitched its generative AI assistant into the fabric of Microsoft 365....
Microsoft Embeds Copilot Chat Pane in Office Apps, Turning AI Into a Workplace Utility
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a long-anticipated overhaul of its productivity suite, planting Copilot Chat directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. The move, part of a...
Microsoft Seeds Windows 11 KB5065789 with Narrator Braille Viewer and Click to Do Table Export
Microsoft has delivered KB5065789 to the Windows 11 Release Preview Channel, bringing a host of accessibility and productivity enhancements to versions 24H2 and 25H2. The update, which raises the...
Excel’s Silent Upgrade: Auto-Refresh PivotTables Arrive in Beta, Outshining AI for Dashboard Reliability
Microsoft’s Excel may be grabbing headlines for its AI-powered features—Copilot, natural-language formulas, and on-cell generative functions—but a quiet Beta Channel update is reshaping daily...
Microsoft Pays Anthropic to Add Claude Sonnet 4 as Copilot's Second AI Brain in Office 365
Microsoft is paying Anthropic to integrate its Claude AI models directly into Office 365 applications, marking the first time the productivity suite will officially route user prompts to a large...
Excel CVE-2025-54901: Patch Now for Critical Memory Disclosure, Mac Users Wait
Microsoft has released emergency security updates to patch a significant information-disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, tracked as CVE-2025-54901, that can expose sensitive process memory...
Microsoft Patches Excel Code Execution Flaw CVE-2025-54904, but Mac LTSC Still Exposed
Administrators scrambling to lock down Microsoft Excel against a newly disclosed code execution vulnerability have hit a snag: the security updates for Office LTSC for Mac 2021 and 2024 are not yet...