How to use Microsoft Forms to create a poll, survey, or quiz for school or work

You can use Microsoft Forms to create polls, surveys, quizzes, and tests for coworkers, students, and more.

How to create data bars in Excel to help others visualize your spreadsheet's numbers

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting.

Copilot on Windows can now create Office documents and connect to Gmail

Microsoft is updating its Copilot app on Windows to allow it to create documents from a chat session and connect to Gmail and ...

This obscure Microsoft Excel tool imports PDF data without mangling it

In the top menu of Excel select Data > Get Data > From File > From PDF. Browse your files and select the PDF with the table in it. Now select Import. Choose the table from the list that appears and ...

Microsoft Copilot AI makes it a cakewalk to create documents in Office

Microsoft's Copilot AI can now create Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, or PowerPoint presentations with just a ...
The New York Times

A Trump Administration Playbook: No Data, No Problem

A pattern of getting rid of statistics has emerged that echoes the president’s first term, when he suggested if the nation stopped testing for Covid, it would have few cases. The NOAA Center for ...
Dawn

Interior minister forms body to probe SIMs data leak

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has taken immediate notice of the news regarding leakage of mobile phone SIMs data and formed a special team to investigate the matter within two weeks.
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 ...
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 ...
Ars Technica

LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a "chain of thought" process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical steps. At the ...
wqad

New Windsor Fair and Rodeo returns Aug. 14–16

NEW WINDSOR, Ill. — The New Windsor Fair and Rodeo is back this August with three days of parades, family fun, and heart-pounding rodeo events. Sanctioned by the International Professional Rodeo ...
ABC News

AI could create these new jobs despite gloomy forecasts, experts say

Forecasts of job disruption wrought by AI vary dramatically. The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence tools has unleashed doomsday predictions of a broken career ladder and massive job losses.