It really seems that the Microsoft Excel team has got its programming claws well and truly into the interwobble version. Excel for the Web has had further improvements this month.

This month’s updates see error bars for Line charts and dynamic format strings support for all chart elements, amongst other new features and Previews.

Microsoft doesn’t want to do things by halves, does it? Yesterday saw the announcement of no less than 14 (!)new Excel functions designed to help manipulate text and arrays in your worksheets. If only we could find some that would massage the financial as well…

…And so they are back! The raft of 2022 Power BI updates starts here, with a slew of new features, including new mobile formatting options, Dynamic M Query Parameters support for more data sources, deployment pipeline enhancements and improvements to downloading a...

At last! LAMBDA and the LAMBDA helper functions are now Generally Available to anyone using Production: Current Channel builds of Excel. In conjunction with LAMBDA going to production, Microsoft has also announced the release of a new add-in, the Advanced Formula Environment, which allows simpler importing, exporting and authoring of named LAMBDAs.

Until recently, Microsoft (and to be honest, end users too) saw Excel for the Web as a “consumption-based companion app to [the] desktop version” (to quote the software company). This meant that you were limited in viewing, creating and editing charts via this medium. However, it is beginning to improve, which both free and paying customers starting to see noticeable improvements.

Data Validation may be used to control what end users may input into a cell. This may be accessed by going to the Data tab of the Ribbon, then go to the Data Tools group and click the Data Validation icon.

There is a new side pane coming to Excel for the Web. Now, you may manage the rules whilst seeing the formatting result on the grid. All you have to do is hover the mouse pointer over a rule to see the range it refers to:

July last year saw the release of a new Excel Trust Center (sic) setting option to restrict the usage of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros. From mid-January 2022, this has been made the default setting when opening Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros. This is to assist users in protecting themselves against related security threats.

Microsoft decided to get busy before they broke up for the seasonal year-end break. Excel for the web benefitted immensely with a raft of new features / updates...