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Python in Excel isn't just for programmers—4 useful things you can do with it right now

Turn Excel into a lightweight data-science tool for cleaning datasets, standardizing dates, visualizing clusters, and ...
InfoQ

Google Open-Sources the Common Expression Language for Python

Google has open sourced CEL-expr-python, a Python implementation of the Common Expression Language (CEL), a non-Turing complete embedded policy and expression language designed for simplicity, speed, ...
Naples Daily News

Eating Florida's wildlife: Just say no to a Python Picnic

A python hunter captured a nearly 17-foot, 202-pound snake in the Florida Everglades. While it is legal to eat python meat in Florida, health officials strongly advise against it. Testing has revealed ...
The Washington Post

Between the sheets at the college Excel championships

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. You know how hard it is to be the most distinct person at the Luxor Hotel ...
Neowin

Good news for Excel users: You can now import data from CSV files without Power Query

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft says new Outlook can't open some Excel attachments

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that prevents some users from opening Excel email attachments in the new Outlook client. According to a service alert (EX1189359) seen by BleepingComputer ...
ZDNet

Microsoft's new AI agents create your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint projects now

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JournalofAccountancy

Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...
cjr.org

How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls

OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet present a new challenge for media companies that want to limit AI access. OpenAI’s Atlas was able to retrieve the full text of a subscriber-exclusive article from ...
Time

How to Get the Most Out of AI—Without Letting It Think for You

Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. A woman browses the OpenAI website on her laptop. A woman browses the OpenAI website on her laptop.Photo Illustration by Serene Lee—SOPA Images/LightRocket/ ...
PC World

This obscure Microsoft Excel tool imports PDF data without mangling it

I don’t use Microsoft Excel all that often, so it remains a bit of a mystery to me. I can enter text and create graphs and that’s basically it. That’s why I’ve set myself a goal to learn one new Excel ...