The core of the problem in Excel isn't that it lacks regex functionality. Indeed, in 2024, Microsoft introduced REGEXEXTRACT, ...

Before it took over her life, Leila Gharani mostly took Microsoft Excel for granted. She was working on a process optimization project for a large paper-products manufacturer—a job that, to hear her ...

The big picture: Today's world runs on digital documents, but companies and users face a maze of incompatible proprietary file formats. LibreOffice developers contend that only strictly open standards ...

Microsoft has unveiled fresh, vibrant icons for its Office apps, a significant change since 2018, inspired by Copilot branding. These new designs feature softer curves and richer colors across Word, ...

A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

In the summer of 2025, Denmark’s government put forward a major policy change in its digital infrastructure: moving away from using Microsoft Office 365, and in part, open-source its operations with ...

Recap: The developers of LibreOffice, a free and open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, have repeatedly criticized Microsoft's proprietary software policies over the past few months. Although a ...

Have you ever stared at a spreadsheet, struggling to make sense of percentage calculations that just don’t seem to add up? Whether it’s a confusing formula, a misstep with zero values, or an ...

In this post, we will show you how to calculate the expiry date in Microsoft Excel. Calculating expiry dates is a common requirement when working with Excel, especially for tracking inventory, ...

LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is seeing a serious uptick in downloads (as first reported by Computerworld ) with February's release of version 25.2. According to the ...