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2026 25

  1. What's New in Excel (October 2026)
  2. Beyond Analysis: Copilot Gets to Work in Excel
  3. What's New in Excel (September 2026)
  4. Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
  5. Copilot in Excel: Bringing clarity to collaborative workbooks
  6. What's New in Excel (August 2026)
  7. The Microsoft Excel World Championship is back on ESPN8 The Ocho for the 5th year in a row
  8. Bring your organization’s data into Excel with new Copilot synced connectors
  9. What's New in Excel (July 2026)
  10. What's New in Excel (June 2026)
  11. An Inside Look at Copilot in Excel
  12. New ways to customize how Copilot edits your workbooks
  13. Introducing federated Copilot connectors for LSEG and Moody's in Excel
  14. Excel Esports Comes to Amsterdam: Inside the 2026 European Open
  15. What's New in Excel (May 2026)
  16. Bringing Transparency to Copilot Edits in Excel
  17. What's New in Excel (April 2026)
  18. What's New in Excel (March 2026)
  19. Use Copilot in Excel to build your brackets
  20. What's New in Excel (February 2026)
  21. App Skills is evolving with Copilot in Excel
  22. Excel as a Literate Computation Surface for AI
  23. What's New in Excel (January 2026)
  24. Agent Mode in Excel is now generally available on desktop
  25. New in Excel for the web: The full Power Query experience

2025 29

  1. Excel in 2025: A Year of Culture, Craft, and Copilot
  2. Write formulas with natural language using Copilot in Excel
  3. Agent Mode in Excel is now generally available on Excel for Web
  4. Congrats to the Winners of the 2025 MECC & MEWC!
  5. What's New in Excel (November 2025)
  6. Introducing the new Get Data dialog in Excel for Windows
  7. What's New in Excel (October 2025)
  8. Spreadsheet Day - Celebrate the grid that changed everything
  9. What's New in Excel (September 2025)
  10. Building Agent Mode in Excel
  11. 🎉 Excel Turns 40! Join Our Reddit AMA 🎉
  12. Introducing formula completion - A new way to write formulas in Excel using Copilot
  13. What's New in Excel (August 2025)
  14. Explain Formulas with Copilot—Now on the Grid
  15. Excel Turns 40: Join the Celebration!
  16. The Microsoft Excel World Championship is back on ESPN8 The Ocho for the 4th year in a row
  17. Celebrating the Premiere of “Spreadsheet Champions” at the Melbourne International Film Festival
  18. What's New in Excel (July 2025)
  19. New in Excel for the web: Power Query Refresh & Data Source Settings for authenticated data sources
  20. What's New in Excel (June 2025)
  21. Smarter Context Awareness for Copilot in Excel
  22. Celebrate Pride for each other with Excel
  23. What's New in Excel (May 2025)
  24. What's New in Excel (April 2025)
  25. What's New in Excel (March 2025)
  26. Unveiling Spreadsheet Champions: A Documentary Premiere at SXSW
  27. What's New in Excel (February 2025)
  28. How to get started with Copilot
  29. What's New in Excel (January 2025)

2024 44

  1. 2024 in Review
  2. Text Analysis in Excel
  3. Congrats to the winners of this year's MEWC & MECC
  4. Announcing the new Microsoft Forms integration on desktop
  5. Focus Cell is now generally available everywhere
  6. What's New in Excel (November 2024)
  7. Python Editor - Now Available
  8. Copilot in Excel: Transforming Data Analysis
  9. Copilot in Excel: Excel Chat Helper
  10. Color, Conditions, and Copilot: How to save time using conditional formatting with Copilot in Excel
  11. What's New in Excel (October 2024)
  12. Announcing Clean Data with Copilot in Excel
  13. Sheet Protection now available on iPad
  14. Quickly estimate sales data using Copilot in Excel
  15. Quickly transform some data for analysis using Copilot in Excel
  16. See what's possible with Copilot in Excel (part 7)
  17. What's New in Excel (September 2024)
  18. See what's possible with Copilot in Excel (part 6)
  19. Python in Excel – Available Now
  20. Unlock the power of Copilot in Excel, now generally available
  21. See what's possible with Copilot in Excel (part 5)
  22. See what's possible with Copilot in Excel (part 4)
  23. Update to the new solution for syncing forms responses to Excel
  24. See what's possible with Copilot in Excel (part 3)
  25. Announcing TRIMRANGE and accompanying trim references
  26. What's New in Excel (August 2024)
  27. See what's possible with Copilot in Excel (part 2)
  28. See what's possible with Copilot in Excel
  29. What's New in Excel (July 2024)
  30. Modernized Excel Grid (part 2)
  31. Graduating the Python Editor to Insiders: Beta
  32. Modernized Excel Grid
  33. Copilot in Excel: Unlocking Insights from Data
  34. Introducing Checkboxes in Excel
  35. What's New in Excel (June 2024)
  36. Copilot in Excel: Working with Columns & Formulas
  37. Celebrating Pride with Excel
  38. What's New in Excel (May 2024)
  39. What's New in Excel (April 2024)
  40. What's New in Excel (March 2024)
  41. Office Scripts is now available for Office 365 Enterprise E1 and Office 365 F3 licenses
  42. What's New in Excel (February 2024)
  43. What's New in Excel (January 2024)
  44. Introducing PivotTables on iPad

2023 36

  1. 2023 in Review
  2. A new way to debug formulas from Excel Labs
  3. What's New in Excel (November 2023)
  4. New aggregation functions: GROUPBY and PIVOTBY
  5. What's New in Excel (October 2023)
  6. Introducing New Enhancements to the Web Connector in Excel for Windows
  7. Enhance Your Excel for the Web Experience with New Formula Authoring Features!
  8. Optimizing Narrator screen reader announcements in Excel for Windows
  9. Improve your productivity in Excel for the web with Power Automate!
  10. What's New in Excel (September 2023)
  11. Introducing Copilot support for Python in Excel: Advanced Data Analysis Using Natural Language
  12. Introducing the Python Editor from Excel Labs
  13. What's New in Excel (August 2023)
  14. Announcing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel.
  15. Excel’s Formula Bar Gets a New Look
  16. Stale Value Formatting
  17. What's New in Excel (July 2023)
  18. Spreadsheets in Space just became more powerful with a new API in Microsoft Excel
  19. What's New in Excel (June 2023)
  20. Introducing Formula Suggestions
  21. Happy Pride from Excel!
  22. What's New in Excel (May 2023)
  23. Working with our partners who build assistive technology
  24. What's New in Excel (April 2023)
  25. 4 Essential Conditional Formatting Tips to Make Your Data Pop
  26. Advanced Formula Environment is becoming Excel Labs, a Microsoft Garage Project!
  27. Retirement and FIRE Estimators
  28. What's New in Excel (March 2023)
  29. Formula Argument Assistance
  30. College Basketball Random Bracket
  31. What's New in Excel (February 2023)
  32. Insert Pictures in Cells with the IMAGE Function
  33. Import data from additional data sources using Power Query in Excel for Mac
  34. More on Formula by Example
  35. What's New in Excel (January 2023)
  36. Automate your tasks with the Automate tab—now in Excel for Windows and Mac

2022 25

  1. 2022 in Review
  2. What's New in Excel (December 2022)
  3. What's New in Excel (November 2022)
  4. What's New in Excel (October 2022)
  5. What's New in Excel (September 2022)
  6. Do you have slow workbooks due to size bloat? Give us a try at speeding up.
  7. What's New in Excel (August 2022)
  8. Unusual Uses of Excel
  9. New in Excel for the web: Power Query Group operations are now available
  10. What's New in Excel (June 2022)
  11. Improved Recommended PivotTables experience
  12. What's New in Excel (May 2022)
  13. Meet Riny van Eekelen, Excel Forum Contributor
  14. Shape data with Power Query Editor in Excel for Mac
  15. New in Excel for the web: Power Query Refresh is now generally available for selected data sources
  16. Data Types in Space: A New Data Types Experience
  17. Run your Office Scripts from a workbook button—now on Windows
  18. Announcing New Text and Array Functions
  19. What's New in Excel for the web (March 2022)
  20. Improved Name Manager in Excel for Mac
  21. Announcing LAMBDAs to Production and Advanced Formula Environment, A Microsoft Garage Project
  22. Charting on the Web Feature Updates
  23. Speed up data entry and validation with AutoComplete for dropdown lists in Excel for Windows
  24. New Conditional Formatting experience in Excel for the web
  25. Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros now restricted by default for customer protection

2021 33

  1. What’s New in Excel for the web (December 2021)
  2. Open & Edit more files in Excel for the Web
  3. Meet Niko Chatzoudis, Excel Forum Contributor
  4. Feature Updates for Sheet View
  5. Observable now integrates with Microsoft Excel Connector and O365/OneDrive Cloud Files
  6. Announcing the new Microsoft Feedback portal - accepting suggestions now!
  7. Find All in Excel for Mac
  8. Announcing Data Types APIs: Data Types in Excel Add-ins
  9. Announcing buttons for Office Scripts: Run scripts with a workbook button
  10. Excel for the web: Evolution from companion app to collaboration powerhouse
  11. Smooth Scrolling comes to Excel for Windows
  12. Excel and Power BI: connected features coming soon for users with Power BI free licenses
  13. Help us shape the future of automation in Excel
  14. Inspiration for inclusive features comes from customers
  15. Announcing LAMBDA Helper Functions: Lambdas as arguments and more
  16. Restrict usage of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros with new macro settings control
  17. Celebrate World Orca Day with Microsoft Excel
  18. What’s New in Excel for the web
  19. Come join our Office Scripts and Power Automate AMA!
  20. Office Scripts is now generally available in Excel for the web
  21. Import data from local files using Power Query in Excel for Mac
  22. Our journey to make Excel work well for everyone
  23. Power BI connected PivotTables in Excel for the web
  24. Collaborate with confidence: Introducing Show Changes for Excel on the Web
  25. Ready Player Zero
  26. What's New in Excel for the web
  27. Unhide multiple worksheets
  28. Financial Modeling World Cup
  29. Resizable Conditional Formatting dialogs
  30. What's New in Excel for the web
  31. Excel Reddit AMA on March 10 at 10 AM PT
  32. Announcing first-ever Office Scripts AMA on February 16th!
  33. Performance Improvements in Excel for the Web

2020 55

  1. Simplified Ribbon is now available in Excel for the web
  2. Open multiple documents in Excel on iPadOS
  3. Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
  4. LET - Names in Formulas - Generally Available
  5. Announcing Power Query Data Types
  6. Introducing Excel Organization data types from Power BI
  7. Excel MVP Blog Roundup
  8. Welcome to the Day of Data visualization challenge!
  9. Excel MVP Blog Roundup
  10. Celebrate World Spreadsheet Day with the Day of Data!
  11. Excel MVP Blog Roundup
  12. Spreadsheet Day Celebration - Oct 14, 5 PM ET
  13. Excel MVP Blog Roundup
  14. Excel MVP Blog Roundup
  15. Excel performance improvements now take seconds running Aggregation functions
  16. Excel MVP Blog Roundup
  17. Microsoft Excel at Ignite 2020
  18. Excel MVP Blog Roundup
  19. Excel MVP Blog Roundup
  20. Excel MVP Blog Roundup
  21. Excel MVP Liam Bastick Looking back at Excel Virtually Global 2020
  22. Introducing Natural Language Queries in Ideas
  23. Workbook Link support coming to Excel for the web
  24. Announcing data import from PDF documents
  25. Learn with Creators: Excel Highlights
  26. New keyboard shortcuts in Excel for iPad
  27. Learn with Creators: Excel Highlights
  28. Excel for the Web
  29. Learn with Creators: Excel Highlights
  30. Join the Excel product team at the Excel Virtually Global summit starting Tue, July 21, 5 PM GMT
  31. Learn with Creators: Excel Highlights
  32. Data from picture in Excel for Mac
  33. Office Scripts: Announcing a simplified API, Power Automate support, and sharing
  34. Learn with Creators: Excel Highlights
  35. Additional Language Support for Stocks and Geography Data Types
  36. Learn with Creators: Excel Highlights
  37. Announcing STOCKHISTORY
  38. Excel for good: An Access Database at the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
  39. Excel for good: Meal Planning using Excel
  40. Excel for good: Building a dashboard to help visualize Covid-19 infection in New Zealand
  41. Excel for good: Excel Tips by the Experts
  42. Simplifying enterprise data discovery and analysis in Microsoft Excel
  43. Excel for good: Excel as a sports coach
  44. Excel Product Team FY20 Goals
  45. Excel for good: Learning resources to help improve your Excel skills for the future
  46. Excel for good: Helping people track their medical information in one place
  47. Excel for good: While helping a client working on treating respiratory illness
  48. Excel for good: Working together to find increased efficiencies in the fight against the coronavirus
  49. Excel for good: Supporting your child’s learning at home
  50. Announcing LET
  51. Multiple Bullet Charts
  52. Quick Solutions to Customer Pain Points in Excel
  53. Using Excel Survey
  54. Excel Reddit AMA, Feb 12, 10 AM PT
  55. Announcing Office Scripts (Preview)

2019 19

  1. Sheet View is generally available
  2. Create data-driven Visio diagrams directly in Excel
  3. Excel Announcements @ Ignite 2019
  4. Modern Excel at Microsoft Ignite 2019
  5. Fuzzy Matching in Power Query for Microsoft Excel
  6. Get & Transform (Power Query) in Excel for Mac - Phase 1
  7. Conditional Number Formatting
  8. Announcing XLOOKUP
  9. Fantasy Football Cheat Sheet & Draft Template for 2019
  10. Excel for Artists: A Size Calculator - by Ingeborg Hawighorst, Excel MVP
  11. Creating an Objective Forecast - by Liam Bastick, Excel MVP
  12. How We Built the Women’s Soccer Prediction Spreadsheet in Excel
  13. Insert Data from Picture generally available on the iPhone Excel app
  14. Insert PivotChart is available in Excel for the web
  15. Live now, full session catalog for Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2019
  16. Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2019 - Session Catalog Preview
  17. How We Built the College Basketball Prediction Spreadsheet in Excel
  18. Excel Dynamic Array Improvements
  19. Microsoft Business Applications Summit is back - join us June 10-11 in Atlanta!

2018 30

  1. Excel ModelOff 2018 competition encourages a new generation of users
  2. Excel's United States Senate Map
  3. Excel for Mac - customize your keyboard shortcuts
  4. Excel @ Ignite 2018
  5. Excel performance improvements now take seconds running Lookup-type functions
  6. Preview of Dynamic Arrays in Excel
  7. Microsoft Ignite 2018 Excel Sessions
  8. Excel Table Talk Episode 7: New Data Types
  9. 🏈 Fantasy Football Draft materials brought to you by Excel! 🏈
  10. Excel Table Talk Episode 6: Improvements to Excel for Mac
  11. Excel Online: News and Updates, Summer 2018
  12. Greetings from the Excel Team
  13. Guinness World Records: The Largest Collection of Spreadsheet Software
  14. July 2018 update for Get & Transform in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in
  15. MBAS: Featured Speakers Announcement!
  16. Excel Table Talk Returns! Power BI & Excel Better Together
  17. How We Built our Soccer Tournament Predictor in Excel
  18. Azure Machine Learning, JS Custom Functions, and Power BI Custom Visuals Expand Dev Capabilities
  19. Microsoft Business Applications Summit: July 22-24 in Seattle!
  20. Office 365 Finance Pros Webinar: Visualize Insights
  21. Experience the newest set of features and fast performance in Excel for Mac Version 16
  22. Preview of Stocks and Geography, New Data Types in Excel
  23. Preview! Effortlessly discover Insights in your data
  24. Insert new Pivot Tables in Excel Online
  25. February 2018 update for Get & Transform in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in
  26. Office 365 Finance Pros Webinar: Automate Recurring Reports & Enable Self-Serve Analytics
  27. How to deselect cells from selected ranges in Excel
  28. January 2018 updates for Get & Transform in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in
  29. Office 365 Finance Pros Webinar: Spend Less Time Gathering and Validating Data
  30. New learning templates in Excel

2017 31

  1. Get rich insights from your data with intelligence in Excel
  2. Custom Functions in Excel: Developer Preview
  3. Excel ModelOff event and innovation
  4. Office for Mac preview released!
  5. Introducing Forms for Excel
  6. Will Your Team Win? Use Modern Excel to Predict Football Results
  7. Create a chart in Excel that recognizes #N/A or blank cells
  8. Excel O365 performance improvements in September
  9. Excel at Microsoft Ignite
  10. Excel Team really listens to our customer base
  11. August 2017 updates for Get & Transform in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in
  12. Meet innovators and explore tomorrow's tech at Microsoft Ignite
  13. Create Forecasting Models using Excel and Machine Learning.
  14. Announcing the Azure Data Lake Store Connector in Excel
  15. #ExcelWorldChamp Round 3 Answers
  16. 6 new courses to expand your Office skills
  17. Modernized Data Import and Shaping Experience
  18. Keep the Copy
  19. Excel April Fork Features
  20. Microsoft Data Insight Summit 2017
  21. New Guide: Switch to Excel from Sheets
  22. Join Alberto Cairo at the Microsoft Data Insights Summit to Explore the Different Dimensions of Data
  23. Excel and Micro:Bit - Hacking for fun and creativity!
  24. Meet 1:1 with a Microsoft expert at Microsoft Data Insights Summit - book your appointment today!
  25. What's New in Excel 2.0 for iPhone and iPad
  26. Learn how to “think like a Freak” with Freakonomics authors at Microsoft Data Insights Summit
  27. Announcing our great lineup of featured speakers for the Microsoft Data Insights Summit!
  28. #ExcelWorldChamp Round 2 Answers
  29. The Microsoft Data Insights Summit is back – check out our full session catalog today!
  30. Microsoft Data Insights Summit 2017
  31. #ExcelWorldChamp Round 1 Answers

2016 2

  1. 10 Excel Tricks you did not yet know
  2. The Excel Community, Updates and UserVoice