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How to Use the VALUE Function in Microsoft Excel

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.
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Microsoft Folds AI Service Into Office in Bid to Take on ChatGPT

Microsoft Corp. is folding its artificial intelligence subscription service for consumers into Office, betting that the productivity suite’s ubiquity will help the company better compete against ...
Ars Technica

With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”

With a new set of Microsoft 365 features, knowledge workers will be able to generate complex Word documents or Excel spreadsheets using only text prompts to Microsoft’s chatbot. Two distinct products ...
The Verge

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...
TechCrunch

Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...
ZDNet

How researchers tricked ChatGPT into sharing sensitive email data

Researchers got ChatGPT's Deep Research agent to go rogue. ChatGPT's Deep Research leaked email data OpenAI has since plugged the vulnerability. Also: OpenAI's Deep Research has more fact-finding ...
TechSpot

Microsoft is repurposing Foxconn's failed Wisconsin venture into the world's most powerful AI data center

Editor's take: As fears of an AI bubble grow, big tech players show no signs of slowing down. AI ventures continue to devour GPUs and dominate tech industry earnings, fueling a race to build ...
Reuters

Microsoft boosts Wisconsin data center spending to $7 billion

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Thursday said it plans to build a second massive artificial intelligence data center in Wisconsin, bringing its spending in the ...
The Verge

Microsoft is turning Foxconn’s empty buildings into the ‘world’s most powerful’ AI data center

Brad Smith promises it won’t drain Lake Michigan dry. Brad Smith promises it won’t drain Lake Michigan dry. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October—and it seems like ...

AI Preview users have noticed OneDrive's AI-driven face recognition setting is opt-out, and can only be turned off 'three times a year' AI Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns ...
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Microsoft Embeds Copilot Chat Directly Into Word, Excel, and Other 365 Apps

Microsoft is rolling out its Copilot Chat AI assistant directly into its core Microsoft 365 applications. Starting today, users of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote will find a new unified ...