How-To Geek on MSN

Why Excel files get huge, and the 5 fixes that shrank mine from 50MB to 2MB

Excel files bloat from ghost used ranges, formatting, pivot caches, and images. These quick fixes massively cut the size of ...
MUO on MSN

This might be the most underrated Excel function ever

If you've ever tried building a product catalog in Excel, you know the headache — images float over cells, they don't move ...
PC World

You can now get Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without a subscription

TL;DR: Get Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for life with no subscription fees for $119.97. Microsoft 365 costs $99.99/year, and you’re never done paying for it. If you don’t want to pay more every year ...
Penn Live

Miss Manners: How can I eat a bagel at this luncheon without making a mess?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I frequently attend luncheons at which the entree consists of bagels, lox (smoked salmon) and cream cheese. Bagels have grown in size substantially since my childhood. Nowadays, a ...
Wall Street Journal

World Trade Grows Without the U.S.

Speaking to WSJ Editorial Page Editor, Paul Gigot, the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), provides a candid assessment of how lawmakers plan to shape the business ...
The Conversation

Illegal tobacco is messing up economic data. That won’t stop until it’s managed like alcohol

John Quiggin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Why China Can’t Sort Out Its Property Market Mess

Once one of the country’s biggest growth drivers, China’s property market has been in a downward spiral for four years with no signs of abating. Real estate values continue to plummet, households in ...
The New York Times

Government Reopens Without Data That Guides Markets and the Fed

Jobs and inflation data will be released late and with caveats, complicating the Federal Reserve’s interest rate deliberations. By Ben Casselman and Rebecca Davis O’Brien The government shutdown is ...
The Business Journals

Power, water, and progress: Sorting fact from fiction in data centers

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The irony is striking: You're running a data center with ...
The New York Times

A Month Without Data Muddles the Economic Picture

Tariffs and uncertainty were already making the economy hard to read. The loss of government data during the shutdown has made the situation much worse. By Ben Casselman and Colby Smith Tariffs are at ...
The Conversation

Fed lowers interest rates as it struggles to assess state of US economy without key government data

When it comes to setting monetary policy for the world’s largest economy, what data drives decision-making? In ordinary times, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and voting members of the Federal ...