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I needed 20 years of address history. Gemini found it for me in minutes

PCWorld

The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. I needed 20+ years of address history. Mortgage and rental forms want years of past addresses. Here's an AI prompt that finds them in Gmail, and how to verify the results.


GridCraft is the open-source Excel clone for Linux I've been waiting for

ZDNet

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. GridCraft is the open-source Excel clone for Linux I've been waiting for If spreadsheets are your thing, but Microsoft Office isn't, you might want to give the open-source clone, GridCraft, a try. Jack Wallen is what happens when a Gen Xer mind-melds with present-day snark. GridCraft is almost the MS Excel clone it intends to be. GridCraft is both free and open-source.


I used Claude to find the online accounts I'd forgotten about

PCWorld

The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. I used Claude to find the online accounts I'd forgotten about Ever wonder how many random accounts you've signed up for over the years, only to lose track of them? This Claude Cowork prompt scours your inbox for clues. When you've reviewed as many tech products as I have, you wind up with dozens of abandoned online accounts, most of them created and forgotten the moment I was done with my testing.


Sheetpedia: A300K-Spreadsheet Corpus for Spreadsheet Intelligence and LLMFine-Tuning

Neural Information Processing Systems

Spreadsheets are widely used for data analysis and reporting, yet their complex structure and formula logic pose significant challenges for AI systems. We introduce Sheetpedia, a large-scale corpus of over 290,000 diverse spreadsheets (from 324,000+ workbooks) compiled from enterprise email archives and online forums. We detail a rigorous collection and preprocessing pipeline (integrating the Enron email spreadsheet archive and the Fuse web corpus, plus a new crawl of Excel forums) to standardize formats, filter languages, and remove duplicates. Sheetpedia provides extensive coverage of real formulas and annotations - addressing a gap left by prior table datasets (e.g.


This 25 lifetime office suite puts docs, spreadsheets, slides, and email in one place

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Switching between multiple apps just to finish basic work gets old fast -- one for writing, one for spreadsheets, another for slides, and somehow email still lives somewhere else entirely. MobiOffice Premium pulls everything into a single suite so you can create, calculate, present, and manage tasks without the constant app-hopping. Right now, the lifetime subscription is available for $24.97 (MSRP $119.97). You get MobiDocs for polished documents with templates, styles, images, tables, spell check, and even an AI paraphraser when you're stuck on phrasing.



SheetCopilot: Bringing Software Productivity to the Next Level through Large Language Models

Neural Information Processing Systems

Computer end users have spent billions of hours completing daily tasks like tabular data processing and project timeline scheduling. Most of these tasks are repetitive and error-prone, yet most end users lack the skill to automate these burdensome works. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), directing software with natural language user requests become a reachable goal. In this work, we propose a SheetCopilot agent that takes natural language task and control spreadsheet to fulfill the requirements. We propose a set of atomic actions as an abstraction of spreadsheet software functionalities.


SQuARE: Structured Query & Adaptive Retrieval Engine For Tabular Formats

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Abstract--Accurate question answering over real spreadsheets remains difficult due to multirow headers, merged cells, and unit annotations that disrupt naive chunking, while rigid SQL views fail on files lacking consistent schemas. It computes a continuous score based on header depth and merge density, then routes queries either through structure-preserving chunk retrieval or SQL over an automatically constructed relational representation. A lightweight agent supervises retrieval, refinement, or combination of results across both paths when confidence is low. This design maintains header hierarchies, time labels, and units, ensuring that returned values are faithful to the original cells and straightforward to verify. Evaluated on multi-header corporate balance sheets, a heavily merged World Bank workbook, and diverse public datasets, SQuARE consistently surpasses single-strategy baselines and ChatGPT-4o on both retrieval precision and end-to-end answer accuracy while keeping latency predictable. By decoupling retrieval from model choice, the system is compatible with emerging tabular foundation models and offers a practical bridge toward a more robust table understanding. I. Introduction Spreadsheets constitute the predominant medium for quantitative analysis across numerous disciplines, particularly in the field of finance.


Oh That Looks Familiar: A Novel Similarity Measure for Spreadsheet Template Discovery

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Traditional methods for identifying structurally similar spreadsheets fail to capture the spatial layouts and type patterns defining templates. To quantify spreadsheet similarity, we introduce a hybrid distance metric that combines semantic embeddings, data type information, and spatial positioning. In order to calculate spreadsheet similarity, our method converts spreadsheets into cell-level embeddings and then uses aggregation techniques like Chamfer and Hausdorff distances. Experiments across template families demonstrate superior unsupervised clustering performance compared to the graph-based Mondrian baseline, achieving perfect template reconstruction (Adjusted Rand Index of 1.00 versus 0.90) on the FUSTE dataset. Our approach facilitates large-scale automated template discovery, which in turn enables downstream applications such as retrieval-augmented generation over tabular collections, model training, and bulk data cleaning.


SODBench: A Large Language Model Approach to Documenting Spreadsheet Operations

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Numerous knowledge workers utilize spreadsheets in business, accounting, and finance. However, a lack of systematic documentation methods for spreadsheets hinders automation, collaboration, and knowledge transfer, which risks the loss of crucial institutional knowledge. This paper introduces Spreadsheet Operations Documentation (SOD), an AI task that involves generating human-readable explanations from spreadsheet operations. Many previous studies have utilized Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating spreadsheet manipulation code; however, translating that code into natural language for SOD is a less-explored area. To address this, we present a benchmark of 111 spreadsheet manipulation code snippets, each paired with a corresponding natural language summary. We evaluate five LLMs, GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, LLaMA-3.3-70B, Mixtral-8x7B, and Gemma2-9B, using BLEU, GLEU, ROUGE-L, and METEOR metrics. Our findings suggest that LLMs can generate accurate spreadsheet documentation, making SOD a feasible prerequisite step toward enhancing reproducibility, maintainability, and collaborative workflows in spreadsheets, although there are challenges that need to be addressed.