Archive - May 2025

In a recent post, Paul Barnhurst raised the question of whether modern tools like Python, Office Scripts, Power Query, and Lambdas are replacing VBA in Excel. It’s a...

Digital transformation is a phrase that’s been repeated so often it risks becoming meaningless. Everyone claims to be doing it. Yet beneath the surface of glossy...

Every few years, the same question resurfaces: Is Microsoft going to discontinue VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) in Excel? It’s a reasonable concern. Technology...

Narrated Timeline of Two Inventions, One Blind Spot Act I: The Absurd Comfort of the Familiar This is the story of an invention’s journey—from obscurity to ubiquity—and...

In an age of shrinking attention spans and algorithm-driven content, the teaching of Microsoft Excel—a bedrock tool of modern business—has not escaped the gravitational...

This article follows on from the brilliant Zoom meeting simulation we recently shared. That simulation was a conceptual leap forward: it used the format of an online...

This lyric from the famous song appears to sum up Beyond Power Query perfectly.

By Hiran de Silva The story of Excel is filled with innovation, reinvention, and community. But buried beneath the noise of dashboards, influencers, and modern tools...