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A venerable IRS program called Free File allows 70% of taxpayers to file their taxes for free, just as the name implies. Only 2% of taxpayers used the service in 2024. That is the finding of a ...

The Department of Justice has released nearly 3.5 million pages of documents from cases and investigations related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The DOJ released its first batch of files ...

The Trump administration may have shuttered Direct File — the IRS’s short-lived experiment in tax-preparation software — but it doesn’t mean you have to pay to file your taxes. There are plenty of ...

Excel has outlasted many tech trends, and in the age of AI, it remains very much in the mix. While new platforms promise automation and out-of-the-box intelligence, many teams continue to rely on ...

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...

Q. I use Excel to do traditional linear forecasting, but I would like to upgrade to exponential smoothing for more accurate forecasts. Is there a way to do this in Excel? A. Accurate forecasting is ...

Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable of almost anything. Jo excels at intuitive problem-solving. Over her life, ...

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It’s been a while since the new version of Outlook overtook the old classic version, but users are still unhappy with it. The latest issue? Certain Excel attachments aren’t opening in Outlook anymore, ...