ISSUE 23.26 • 2026-06-29 MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Give AI a chance to help you with any Excel or spreadsheet app. AI can greatly speed up your time spent working on a workbook — rom explaining functions and improving formulas to making a full sheet from your description. Any version of Excel, including perpetual […]

Carrie Roberts //       A malicious macro in a Microsoft Word or Excel document is an effective hacking technique. These documents could be delivered in a variety of […]

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Ethan Robish // In my last two posts I showed how to insert tracking bugs in both .docx (Part 1) and .xlsx files (Part 2).  But don’t let all that effort go […]

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Ethan Robish // As promised in my previous post, part 1, this post shows how to place a tracking bug in a native .xlsx file.  Full credit for this method […]

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