is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.

Excel is probably Microsoft’s most popular developer tool. With a built-in functional programming language that now supports lambdas and variables, Excel has become a tool that people build businesses ...

Grabbing data from the internet is much easier when you skip the coding part.

Microsoft‘s Excel team has been working at sprucing users‘ experience with spreadsheets. It has built the ExcelMashup.com ...