Early August has seen the Microsoft Excel team announce the general availability of the Microsoft Excel REST API for Office 365. You will be able to take a REST from now and never work again. Er no, that's apparently not how it works.This new Microsoft REST API for...

ModelOff has just announced the dates for the 2016 ModelOff "World Championship", with Round 1 kicking off on Saturday 22 October.We still think it's slightly aimed at the aggressive end of financial modelling (effectively, have you tried coding with boxing gloves?),...

Late July saw Microsoft announce 12 new data transformation and connectivity features. These updates are available as part of an Office 365 subscription, or if you have Excel 2010 or Excel 2013 you can also take advantage of these updates by downloading the latest...

That’s not a typo.With this month’s release of Power BI publisher for Excel, Analyze in Excel has become easier to use and can now be initiated directly from Excel using the Power BI publisher. With this release, there’s no longer any need to download .odc files or...

PivotTables are now faster for those working in Excel 2016 with connections to Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) servers, either directly to an OLAP server or through a collection of data tables with relationships - known as a Data Model - in Excel. The recent...

A court has ruled on appeal that the US government cannot force Microsoft to give investigative authorities access to the firm's servers located in other countries.

Last week saw some updates / additions to Excel 2016, chiefly for Office 365 (yes, Microsoft continues to try and sway you to buy a subscription). The key updates this month include:Shape recognition: Automatically transform your drawings into shapesNew connectors:...

For those using Excel 2016, you may have noticed that the Power View button has been removed from the Insert Ribbon. Power View is still supported, but users have to work a bit harder to restore the button to their Ribbon. In the next couple of months, an update to...

It's been a month! It's about time Microsoft issued more updates for Get & Transform (Excel 2016) / Power Query (Excel 2010 and Excel 2013) and they have duly obliged with four new / improved features.These updates are available in Excel 2016 if you have an...

Just a mere nine months after the launch of our new-look website, we’ve finally got our act together and set up a Blog section (to be fair, we have been busy!). The blogs will be informal and cover items such as upcoming training, quick Excel tips, office moves and...