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4 New Microsoft Excel Features to Try in October 2025

All details in this article are correct as of October 7, 2025. Accessibility to some of the latest Excel features depends on ...
MrExcel on MSN

Excel Pivot Table Tools & Fields Pane Disappeared? Fix It!

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 free Excel tutorials. Bill "MrExcel" Jelen is the author of 67 books about ...
Geeky Gadgets

MS Excel Slicers Without PivotTables : The Disconnected Table Trick

Have you ever felt limited by the rigidity of Excel PivotTables when creating interactive reports? Many users assume that Excel slicers, the sleek, clickable filters that make data exploration a ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft to lessen reliance on OpenAI by buying AI from rival Anthropic

Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic’s AI in Office 365 apps, The Information reports, citing two sources. The move means that Anthropic’s tech will help power new features in Word, Excel, Outlook, and ...
AppleInsider

Inside Apple's Numbers - how it compares to Microsoft Excel

Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be hard-pressed to find its limitations — and will immediately see how much easier ...
PC Gamer

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

Software Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October—and it seems like there's no way ...
TechSpot

Excel gets Copilot formula function, but Microsoft warns about accuracy

TL;DR: Microsoft is launching Copilot AI for Excel, a new feature that uses advanced language models to help users analyze data, summarize information, and generate ideas directly in their ...
Windows Central

Excel’s new Copilot function transforms data handling with AI’s natural language processing

Copilot is on the way to Microsoft Excel. Or rather, more Copilot is being packed into the popular spreadsheet program. A new COPILOT function is rolling out now to users in the Beta Channel and ...
TechRadar

Microsoft Excel is making a major change around blocked file types - here's what we know

Microsoft Excel will now disable blocked file types from workbook links by default The files will either fail to refresh or show a #BLOCKED error Other safety updates ...
PC World

Microsoft finally fixes the worst thing about Excel’s pivot tables

Data wonks, rejoice! Pivot tables now automatically refresh themselves in a new beta version of Microsoft Excel. You might expect that pivot tables—which can be used to summarize rows and columns of ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s GROUPBY function as a PivotTable alternative

Q. Are there any alternatives to traditional PivotTables in Excel? A. The first thing that comes to mind is the function GROUPBY. The primary purpose of GROUPBY is to make data analysis easier by ...