Despite its advancing years, Microsoft Excel is proving a hit with young finance professionals, many of whom reckon the aging number-cruncher has a bright future. According to a Datarails report, more ...

Ireland's Diarmuid Early has won the Excel World Championship. Readers of a certain age may be disappointed to learn he has never used Lotus 1-2-3. Early beat Andrew Ngai of Australia, in a Las Vegas ...

It’s been a while since the new version of Outlook overtook the old classic version, but users are still unhappy with it. The latest issue? Certain Excel attachments aren’t opening in Outlook anymore, ...

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 ...

Have you ever sent an Excel file to a colleague, only to realize they couldn’t open it because of compatibility issues? Or perhaps you’ve spent hours perfecting a spreadsheet, only to see its ...

Q. I work with large spreadsheets. These spreadsheets have hundreds or even thousands of rows and often 10 or more columns. It’s so much to process that I become confused and make mistakes. Does Excel ...

If you cannot preview Word or Excel files in Explorer, but you can preview other text or image files, then this post will help you fix the problem. If the Word or Excel file preview is not working in ...

Few things are more frustrating than opening a Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file only to see the dreaded error: “The file is corrupt and cannot be opened.” Whether it’s a crucial report, ...

Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. After the rollout ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Few digital disruptions are as frustrating as Microsoft Excel crashing or freezing, especially when it happens right at startup or upon opening a critical spreadsheet. This common yet debilitating ...

If you’ve downloaded a file that ends in .rar, you might be wondering how to open it on your Windows 11 computer. RAR files are compressed folders, similar to ZIP files. People use them to bundle ...