The latest updates released include support for Perspectives in Personalize visuals, a rectangular select for data points, and more.

Better late than never! You may have noticed these updates emanate more sporadically than their Desktop counterparts – but they do actually come out from time to time.

This month’s updates include several enhancements to Q&A, gradient legend support and an ability to further customise slicer header text.

SumProduct is pleased to announce that two of our Directors, Liam Bastick and Tim Heng, have been re-awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Excel for 2020-21.

The concern is though, for some people, this may be a little too much and they may very well just want to convert what they have to a text list. This is where the first of two new – and unannounced – Excel functions comes to the rescue.

I know we mainly look at Excel, Power BI and Office products, but for those of us on a Windows Operating System, it is important to stay on top of the way Microsoft releases new Windows builds to us all.

It’s been a terrible week for the Excel community, with the passing of Microsoft Excel team member and former Excel MVP Chris “Smitty” Smith

If you are presently subscribing to the Beta channel of Microsoft 365 (for either Windows or MacOS), then you have a 50% chance of finding that with the latest update you now have limited additional language support for the Stocks and Geography Data Types.

Microsoft announces a new Excel function for Microsoft 365, Excel for Microsoft 365 for Mac and Excel for the web.

This update sees several features become Generally Available, including automatic page refresh, the hierarchy slicer, the modern Ribbon and AI insights.