Excel now lets you choose which AI model powers Copilot, but Microsoft does a poor job of explaining what each one does. The Copilot model picker in Excel offers Auto, two OpenAI GPT models and two Anthropic Claude models. Here is which Copilot model to leave selected for everyday work, and when it pays to […]
Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday is one of the biggest on record, with a massive 570 bug and security fixes landing on your Windows, Microsoft 365 and Office machines. One buried fix is critical: a BitLocker bypass that let thieves open an encrypted drive without your password or recovery key. Here’s what to patch, when […]
Microsoft Office lets you drop an SVG graphic into Word, Excel or PowerPoint, then recolor the whole thing and nothing more. Want the circle orange and the bar black? The fix is simpler than you would guess: open the SVG in Notepad or any plain text editor, change a few color values, delete or hide […]
Excel’s Flash Fill has a fatal flaw: it forgets. Flash Fill runs once, on the rows in front of it, and then it’s done. Edit a cell, add a row or refresh the data and nothing updates. Excel now has four alternatives all better ways to split or join text that stick around and keep […]
Splitting text in Excel used to mean wrestling with nested LEFT, RIGHT, MID and SEARCH formulas. Not any more. Excel 365 and Excel 2024 have three functions that do the job in one step: TEXTBEFORE, TEXTAFTER and TEXTSPLIT. TEXTBEFORE grabs everything before a delimiter, TEXTAFTER grabs everything after it, and TEXTSPLIT breaks a whole string […]
