Stop Using Basic Excel Drop-Downs : 5 Advanced Tricks For Dynamic Drop-Downs

Discover 5 advanced Excel drop-down techniques to create dynamic, auto-updating lists and improve your data management skills.
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Excel's Custom Data Validation: A Trick You Didn't Know You Needed

Data validation in Excel lets you restrict what can be entered into a cell, whether whole numbers, decimals, dates, or a certain number of characters. However, one of the most powerful capabilities of ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Microsoft Excel isn't a database, please stop using it like one

Excel offers no such constraint. If someone is determined to enter bad data, they can simply paste values over a validated ...
Wall Street Journal

Global Markets Rise; U.S. Inflation Data Eyed, Gold, Oil Down

U.S. futures and global markets rose ahead of September U.S. inflation data later Friday, which is expected to have increased over the month. Meanwhile U.K. retail sales volumes rose for the fourth ...
Newsweek

AWS Outage: How Virginia Data Centers Brought Down the Internet Worldwide

In the early hours of Monday morning, a large part of the internet suddenly stopped working. The origins of the global outage which affected millions around the world —an area of roughly 385 acres in ...
UPI

Harvard data shows drop in Hispanic and Black students, spike in Asian

Oct. 23 (UPI) --New data released by Harvard University's undergraduate school showed a decline for the class of 2029 in both Hispanic and Black students, with a spike in its Asian student population.
MarketWatch

Caterpillar, Apple share losses contribute to Dow's 335-point drop

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is declining Wednesday afternoon with shares of Caterpillar and Apple facing the biggest losses for the index. Supported by world-class markets data from Dow Jones and ...
ABC News

Billion-dollar disaster data returns, but this time it's not being run by the federal government

"This dataset was simply too important to stop being updated." For decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's billion-dollar disaster dataset put a dollar figure on the cost of ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Let’s Just Outsource Our Economic Data Collection to Canada

Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it's us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent ...
Morningstar

Philip Morris Down Nearly 9%, on Pace for Largest Percent Decrease Since March 2020 — Data Talk

--Up 9.51% from 52 weeks ago (Oct. 22, 2024), when it closed at $131.41 --Down 22.19% from its 52-week closing high of $184.95 on June 23, 2025 --Up 22.84% from its 52-week closing low of $117.15 on ...
The Washington Post

Trump says inflation is dead. Most data says: Not quite.

President Donald Trump says he beat inflation. But several conventional measures of rising prices paint a different picture. Most experts agree inflation has picked up in recent months, in part ...