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How to simplify complex Excel formulas for better auditing

Tables, named ranges, line breaks, modern functions, and helper columns make Excel formulas easier to read, audit, and fix.
How-To Geek on MSN

Stop writing nested IFs and IFS formulas in Excel: Use SWITCH instead

Messy Excel formulas are more than just an eyesore—they're harder to maintain. Every repeated cell reference and tangled ...
Computer Weekly

IFS validates applied Industrial AI platform with real-world impact showcase

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. AI is everywhere, clearly. It’s not too far of a stretch to say that we have AI, AI everywhere, but ...
Computer Weekly

What to expect from IFS Industrial X Unleashed

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Billed as “more than just another industry showcase”, industrial AI company IFS promises a deep-dive ...
Reuters

UK's Reeves should use budget to reform tax system, IFS says

LONDON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - British finance minister Rachel Reeves should use her budget in November to carry out a long overdue reform of the taxation system which could help her to raise more revenue ...
ZDNet

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

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.
PC Gamer

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

Certain Windows 365 Copilot users now have access to a new feature in Excel that lets you use Microsoft's Copilot AI to generate formulas, but you might want to be careful how you use it. Microsoft is ...
ZDNet

Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it

A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ...
GeekWire

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

Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyze data directly in spreadsheet cells using plain-language prompts. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is building generative ...
Diginomica

IFS Connect 2025 - How Nature's Path expanded sustainability from a mission into a business discipline

In my IFS Connect 2025 event review, we explored the intersection of Industrial AI and agents. I made the case for a different kind of agentic AI value, via TOMRA's field service evolution on IFS: ...
The New York Times

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

Either way, let’s not be in denial about it. Credit...Illustration by Christoph Niemann Supported by By Kevin Roose and Casey Newton Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are the hosts of The Times’s “Hard ...