Microsoft really doesn't want you to buy Office — here's a great free alternative

Microsoft Office might be trapped behind a subscription, but OnlyOffice and LibreOffice will let you create and edit ...
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Brandon Thomas Launches Open-Source Microsoft Office Clones with AI-Powered Features

Brandon Thomas is at it again. The developer who cloned Adobe's Creative Cloud suite using AI has now dropped open-source ...

Excel's AI function has been discontinued. What remains is Power Query

The AI is gone. Your work remains.On September 14, 2026, Microsoft discontinued the =COPILOT() function in Excel.It lasted ...
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Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office

Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

You can tell if Excel macros will transfer by counting the clicks

There are things that even 70,000 tests cannot measure.It happens after you press the button.A free office suite called ...
MUO on MSN

The new Excel functions everyone loves still can't do what a pivot table does

Excel’s shiny new functions still can’t dethrone the PivotTable.

6 Powerful Microsoft Copilot in Excel Use Cases & Workflow Examples

Streamline your spreadsheets with six practical Copilot in Excel use cases. Run multiple custom skills to create budget vs ...

The developer who cloned Photoshop using AI has now created Word, Excel, and PowerPoint ...

Called WordCraft, GridCraft, and DeckCraft, respectively, the open-source applications are written in Rust with Anthropic's ...
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ArtCraft Expands With Free AI-Built Alternatives to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Discover WordCraft, GridCraft, and DeckCraft, three free, open-source AI-built alternatives to Microsoft Word, Excel, and ...
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AI reverse engineering replicates Adobe, Microsoft software

Brandon Thomas, a U.S. software developer, recently created software with functionalities similar to Adobe’s Photoshop, ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog

Monitoring The Impact Of Full-Text Indexing On Semantic Model Refresh In Power BI

So, to test it myself, I added a full-text index to a column containing street names (so therefore fairly short strings) in a semantic model containing data from my favourite public data source, the ...

Excel FILTER Formula Multiple Conditions and Examples

Excel FILTER function mastery requires understanding TRUE/FALSE logic. Use the * multiplier for AND logic to easily handle multiple complex conditions.