The website www.excel.uservoice.com has been around a while now and it is clearly becoming more effective. The idea was that regular Excel users could suggest improvements to the world’s second-best software for anything and, if you get enough votes in the bag,...

Microsoft's Eric Ligman, Director - Sales Excellence, has today announced their annual free Microsoft eBook giveaway. This year's event has more freebies than in any previous year. These books are on a range of Microsoft-related topics - and to our readers, the Excel...

SumProduct is pleased to announce that our MD, Liam Bastick, has been re-awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for a seventh successive time. This award continues to recognise exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who...

Well better late than never... Microsoft claims they got these out in June - but we've only heard about them in early July! For this month's updates for Get & Transform (Excel 2016) / Power Query (Excel 2010 and 2013), there's eight new updates. Come on guys, are...

Microsoft has issued a summary graphic showing what's available now and what's coming in the next Quarter in Power BI. Apparently, it was presented in one of the keynote sessions at the recent Data Insights Summit. We thought we would share it with you.

For those who weren’t aware, SumProduct's very own Tim Heng spent the last few days in Seattle at the Data Insights Summit hosted by Microsoft. While that’s given us the opportunity to provide constructive feedback to Microsoft program managers, it’s also given...

June sees in quite a few new updates for Power BI: it's clear the momentum of recent major changes is far from over. This month has many updates to reporting and accessibility features, with important improvements in data connectivity as well.In summary, the...

Could it be Microsoft is starting to slow down? For this month's updates for Get & Transform (Excel 2016) / Power Query (Excel 2010 and 2013), there's only three new updates. Come on guys, are you really trying? This month, the updates focus on the following new...

Microsoft has added a new feature to help users co-author files.  Whether you are for or against this feature is not my point here: it needs Excel's AutoSave switched on to work.  That's fine.  But it shouldn't be the default.  It is accepted...

The latest Office 365 update provides a ‘pivotal’ new Excel feature. Now, you can finally personalise the default layout for your PivotTables. It’s been a popular request over at Excel UserVoice for some time and now it’s finally happened.There are two ways you can...