Adam Grant on lessons from the pandemic, datum versus data, and how abstract numbers can lead to very real human outcomes

In this excerpt from the new book 'Speak Data,' the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we ...
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These wildcards in Excel are your secret weapon for faster, smarter searches

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...
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Learning REDUCE in Excel completely changed how I use spreadsheets

REDUCE allows you to iterate through your data, building your result step-by-step, in the same way a loop operates in a ...

Not enough people are talking about this budget Lenovo laptop that overdelivers

Lenovo's IdeaPad 5i offers a lot of value for its price point, but certain design elements may hold it back for some.

Excel’s New Clean Data Button Will Save You Hours : But There’s a Catch

Is Excel's Clean Data button the ultimate time-saver for messy spreadsheets? Find out how it works, its quirks, and how it compares to Power Query ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

Inside the text messages of the agent who became a ‘mole’ for Rob Manfred and MLB

The MLB Players Association says that in 2020 negotiations, agent Jim Murray “acted as a ‘mole’” for Manfred and his top ...
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Quickly Master Excel 365 Number Formatting Like a Pro

Have you ever opened a spreadsheet and felt overwhelmed by a sea of unformatted numbers, struggling to make sense of the data? Whether it’s a financial report, survey results, or a project timeline, ...