This month’s updates see the release of additional functionality and performance improvements for DirectQuery and optimisation for the SWITCH function, amongst other enhancements.

Ah, to have been working 43 years ago...

It's not far off now!! We are back for a SEVENTH time! Do you think a pandemic will stop us..? 50+ presenters from all over the globe speaking on all things Excel and Power BI. It's for charity!

There have been some recent updates to the threaded comments and notes experience in Excel.

This month’s updates see new improvements for buttons, line charts and DAX functions, amongst other updates.

We are pleased to announce that according to Feedspot, SumProduct has been named one of the web’s Top 70 Excel blogs. That’s nice to know someone is reading our rambles!

This month sees updates for Q&A, shapes and automatic aggregations for DirectQuery, amongst other inclusions.

Microsoft has made a “big thing” – quite rightly – about accessibility for all of their products, to ensure they are inclusive to everyone, including more than one billion people with various disabilities around the world.

It’s busy times in the land of Excel 365 – if you want to live on the cutting edge. Microsoft has just announced the release of no less than seven new LAMBDA-associated functions (including a landmark 500th one – someone please bake Excel a cake) for the Beta variant, whilst also moving the recently released LAMBDA function a step closer to becoming Generally Available. It’s a lot to take in. Where do we start? Perhaps let’s begin with revisiting LAMBDA itself.

A new Excel Trust Center (sic) settings option to further restrict the usage of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros has now been made Generally Available. To better protect Microsoft 365 users against malicious macro-based threats, Microsoft recently expanded the integration of what is known as the Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) with Office 365 to include the runtime scanning of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros.