Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

We’ll start with the most far-reaching addition, which the spec describes as “a new Iterator global with associated static and prototype methods for working with iterators.” The most exciting part of ...

Windows may get all the attention, but when you want to get real work done, you turn to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel. Excel is, of course, ...

When you enter longer text than will fit in a normal Excel cell, the excess text either carries over into the next blank cell or is truncated by adjacent data. You have several options to remedy this.

Data entry can be a grueling process in Microsoft Office Excel, especially if you have left out a key component in a column, such as hyphens. Hyphens can help break up long numbers in a spreadsheet, ...

In server-side JavaScript, you will most likely use the fs library for dealing with the filesystem. This library is a module in Node and other platforms like Bun. So you don’t need to install it using ...

To begin, you need to enable the Developer tab in Excel. This tab provides access to the tools required for form creation, but it is not enabled by default. To enable ...

I have a JavaScript Excel Add-in deployed in production, being used by a number of customers. The Add-in includes a custom function. I have added new optional parameters to the function but when I ...

Data analysts often turn to add-ins when they encounter complicated computations in Excel. Here we examine and compare some common add-ins in terms of deployment process, development efficiency, ...

Microsoft Excel’s Data Analysis Toolpak is an invaluable add-in for those who require complex statistical or engineering analyses. This powerful feature allows users to execute a variety of data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. As an aspiring leader, it's important to understand how ...