Microsoft's spreadsheet application for data entry, calculation, and analysis, part of the Office/Microsoft 365 suite.
AWS's pricing team turned an 18-tab Excel model for evaluating customer deals into a chatbot, finance chief John Felton told Fortune. It gives pricing staff a plain-language way to question that model inside a $169 billion annualized business.
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Databricks bought Row Zero, whose spreadsheets hold up to 1 billion rows, to give its Genie AI assistant a grid interface. Row Zero co-founder Nick End says people still need a familiar interface to check the results AI agents produce.
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A September 2026 security update made paste fail without an error across five Office product lines. The follow-up KB names conditional formatting as the trigger and still tells admins paste might continue to fail.
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Paste, autofill and formula dragging stop working in Excel 2016 through Office LTSC 2024 after September's security updates, with nothing on screen to flag the failure. The repair is four version-specific packages installed by hand.
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A developer's Copilot alternative for Excel Desktop sends natural language to OpenCode and gets structured actions back, which the add-in checks before running. It only runs the actions somebody wrote by hand.
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The September Office update KB5002914 makes some Excel paste operations fail with no beep and no error message. The fix Microsoft shipped Wednesday, KB5002655, covers only the MSI edition of Office 2016.
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The Word sidebar rewrites what you select. The addressed, batched review queue RuntimeWire found in OpenAI's shipped desktop client 20 days earlier works differently, and it is still behind a rollout gate.
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A developer parsed 24 real delivery payout files and found the charges that move money sitting past the summary tab, under a deductions total labelled (A)+(B)+(C) that sums four sections. His own parser doubled the discount figure on its first pass.
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A sanitized workbook keeps the blank rows, duplicate IDs and text-formatted numbers, and the ten questions put to the assistant all have answers someone already computed by hand. Every formula and cell range gets saved.
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A dev.to writeup pins silent copy/paste failures in Excel 2016 through 2024 on KB5002914, and says MSI machines can drop the patch while volume Click-to-Run installs have to be moved back a whole build.
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Microsoft's September 9 Office update stopped copy-paste and formula dragging for some users on Office 2016 through 2024, and every workaround now circulating removes or downgrades the security patch.
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Pen Test Partners recovered a family's locked encrypted Excel file in under a minute once relatives recalled the password format. The hygiene was right; the handover did not exist.
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A dev.to walkthrough, checked in Excel rather than recalled, finds pasting both bypasses a validation rule and removes it. That changes what Circle Invalid Data can still find.
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A dev.to writeup traces mojibake in a CSV import to Excel silently assuming the wrong encoding. The mangled names then fail search, joins and grouping downstream.
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