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This year's Microsoft Excel World Championship was the wildest yet — so who came out on top in the annual spreadsheet super-battle?

The 2026 Microsoft Excel World Championship’s (MEWC) inaugural Landmark Battle has a winner.

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Brands Hatch to make Formula E debut on expanded Gen4 calendar

Brands Hatch will replace the ExCeL as host of the London event with Zandvoort and Austin also joining the Formula E calendar

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Eidos Montreal founder says modern execs are driven more by spreadsheets than passion for games

Executive is short for Excel, uh, cutive.

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"Atrocious implementation": Microsoft's unremovable Copilot button is driving Excel users crazy with forced AI in spreadsheets

Microsoft’s Copilot button in Excel is unremovable, blocking sheets and frustrating users who call the implementation atrocious.

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Chanakya Niti: 5 Types Of Office Colleagues You Should Never Trust

At work, trust is not a cute emotion. It is access. Access to your thoughts, frustrations, plans, insecurities, next move, weak moments, and the tiny things you say when your brain has left the meeting but your mouth is still employed. So before you call someone your “office bestie,” check…

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An ancient Microsoft Excel security flaw could let hackers hijack your entire system, so patch now

CISA is warning about ongoing exploitation of a 2008 bug in multiple versions of Excel.

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London Tube and bus strikes to spark four days of travel chaos next week as two major lines to shut

Full impact of planned walkout by drivers on London Underground revealed, with passengers facing ’significant disruption’

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"The Lotus guys probably figured it didn't matter to be wrong": Excel thinks 1900 was a leap year because of a small shortcut taken in the '80s — I'll think of this next time I want to cut corners

Microsoft Excel was originally created as competition for Lotus 1-2-3, which has had lasting effects on my favorite spreadsheet software. Here's how a small shortcut taken in the '80s has lasted through until 2026.

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Today I learned that Excel incorrectly assumes 1900 was a leap year, and Microsoft will never fix it because the whole house of cards would collapse

Luckily, most users don't build spreadsheets focused on 1900.

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Meet the Gen Z college students who turned Excel into a competitive esport—they’re competing in spreadsheet challenges and it’s helping them land jobs

Microsoft-backed spreadsheet competitions are turning Gen Z college students into job-market standouts.

Fortune

The 'LeBron James of spreadsheets' thought Excel becoming a popular esport was 'unlikely' before winning the grand prize in Las Vegas

'You can have a lot more fun with Excel than people realise.'

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Excel’s new Agent Mode can fix your broken formulas — proving AI can be useful

Agent Mode brings a massive productivity boost to Excel for Windows and Mac, offering direct workbook edits and a choice between OpenAI and Anthropic models.

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6 Picks for the Best Online Advanced Excel Certification Course for Professionals

Excel turns 40 in 2025, yet it remains the most-requested data skill in U.S. job ads. A 2025 Business Insider review of 12 million Indeed postings found “Excel” in 531,000 listings—eight times Python and ten times SQL. According to the GoSkills Upskilling Forecast (July 2025), professionals with an advanced-Excel credential…

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Row as arms firm 'wins £1.5bn TfL contract' to run Oyster and Contactless ticketing system

Sir Sadiq Khan has called for weapons fair to no longer be held in London

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The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship went way, way harder than it needed to with its wrestling-style intros and I'm so here for it

Let's get ready tooooooo... spreadsheet.

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Formula E admits London ExCel race in Gen4 “tricky", considering other venues

Up to eight venues under consideration as ExCel London prepares for what could be its final Formula E race in 2026

International Business Times UK

Goldman Sachs Stuns with $1bn Excel Takeover That Puts Tiger Woods, Caitlin Clark and Nikola Jokic Under Its Umbrella

Goldman Sachs will take a majority stake in Excel Sports Management in a deal valuing the agency at nearly $1 billion, announced as top executive Kathy Ruemmler faces controversy over newly released Epstein emails.

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MCL25 is revving up for November - preparing to welcome London riders

‘Have-a-go’ opportunities, expert advice and death-defying stunts will be on offer

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I tested Google Sheets and found it to be a highly collaborative spreadsheet editing tool with robust features

In our Google Sheets review, we examine the platform’s capabilities and how it compares to Excel and other top spreadsheet applications.

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Microsoft Excel turned 40 and almost nobody noticed - world's most popular spreadsheet now faces tough competition from Google Sheets after crushing Lotus 1-2-3 and Borland Quattro Pro

Microsoft Excel celebrates 40 years of spreadsheet dominance, but the rapid rise of Google Sheets with its real-time collaboration tools presents a challenge.

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Winning formulae: Briton bidding to be ‘world’s best spreadsheeter’ at Las Vegas competition

Ha Dang will head to the US in December to take part in the Excel world championships after seeing off 40 rivals

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Ducati may have parity - but it’s no longer the best bike in MotoGP

Despite Marc Marquez winning everything since the British GP in May, it’s time to revisit the idea that Ducati has a technical advantage

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Microsoft Excel gets more AI — and this time it’s actually useful

Microsoft is adding a COPILOT function to Excel, letting you use natural language prompts inside formulas to analyze, summarize, and categorize data.

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Excel for the Rest of Us: Simple Skills, Big Impact

If you’ve ever opened a spreadsheet and felt a little overwhelmed, you’re not alone. Excel can seem like a tool reserved for finance pros or data analysts.

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Excelling in … Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting

New documentary Spreadsheet Champions follows six competitors as they head to the Microsoft Office Specialist world championship in Florida

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