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Excel’s automation features are faster than ChatGPT, but most people never find them in the menus

Excel’s automation features are faster than ChatGPT, but most people never find them in the menus

Published by skeptic

It’s very likely that you’ve tried to clean, sort, or analyze your data using ChatGPT or another artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, assuming that it’s the fastest way to get the job done. However, Excel offers several automation features that can handle a wide range of data tasks with impressive speed. The challenge is that it’s not always obvious which tools to use or where to look for them. Once you understand which feature fits each task and know exactly where to find it, you won’t need to keep opening ChatGPT and similar tools to automate work that Excel can already handle on its own. Related I Let AI Handle Complex Excel Formulas for Me—You Should Too Let AI handle the syntax so you can focus on results. Power Query Import, clean, and reorganize without repeating yourself If you regularly pull data from external files, databases, or web sources and then spend time cleaning it up — splitting columns, fixing data types, and merging tables — Power Query is the feature designed to automate these tasks. …

Electric Bleu offers one of L.A.’s most affordable tasting menus

Electric Bleu offers one of L.A.’s most affordable tasting menus

Published by Sam Flores

Pâté en croûte is a classic French charcuterie presentation that dates back to the Middle Ages. When done well, the confluence of textures is a marvelous paradox, with a meat filling that cooks to just the right suppleness, surrounded by a well baked, flaky crust. The best pâté en croûte in Los Angeles is at Electric Bleu, a French restaurant in Mar Vista run by husband-and-wife team Craig Hopson and Mai Sakai. It’s named for “Electric Blue,” the 1987 No. 1 hit by the Australian band Icehouse. And for the ultramarine blue that French artist Yves Klein patented in 1960. A big shard of concrete in this specific shade juts from the restaurant’s round, corner facade. An exterior photograph of Electric Bleu restaurant, which occupies a corner of a residential neighborhood in Mar Vista. (Yasara Gunawardena / For The Times) From a seat at the chef’s counter on a recent evening, I watched as a cook prepared a slice of the pâté en croûte. The pastry clung to a thin layer of aspic that enveloped …

McDonald’s brings biggest burger to U.S. menus

McDonald’s brings biggest burger to U.S. menus

Published by Daniella Wilson

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US McDonald’s is bringing its largest burger yet to U.S. menus. Starting March 3, American customers will finally be able to get their hands on the limited-time Big Arch Burger, which features two quarter-pound beef patties, three slices of cheese, onions, pickles, lettuce and a tangy sauce on a sesame and poppy seed bun. The fast food giant’s “most McDonald’s, McDonald’s burger,” as its press release called it, was previously tested in Canada and countries across Europe, but is already a permanent menu fixture in the U.K. and Ireland. “We began to pilot Big Arch about a year and a half ago, and it’s shown strong traction across several markets,” said Jill McDonald, the chain’s global chief restaurant experience officer, during a fourth quarter earnings call earlier this month. “Customers are responding to this more satisfying burger that meets demand …