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title: Microsoft Excel - Descriptive Error Cards
description: In this article, we look at how the new descriptive Error Cards in Excel will help modellers to understand and fix their errors.
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# [Microsoft Excel - Descriptive Error Cards](https://www.fullstackmodeller.com/blog/microsoft-excel-descriptive-error-cards)

 Written by [Myles Arnott](https://www.fullstackmodeller.com/blog/author/myles-arnott) | Dec 2, 2025, 3:30:00 PM

Understand and fix errors with Error Cards in Excel

Microsoft announced the descriptive error cards to Excel insiders today.

These new cards will provide much more context on any error message that you see in Excel.

This should be a really nice addition and help modellers to identify and fix issues more quickly.

## **Let's take a look at a few examples**

The examples above are taken from our Excel Mastery course where we cover the common error types in Excel. As you can see the new, descriptive error cards provide a lot more information to understand, and therefore fix, the error.

You can read the full article on the Microsoft tech Community [here](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/understand-and-fix-errors-with-descriptive-error-cards-in-excel-for-windows/4467915).

## Our Future of Excel series

This series of articles focuses on new features soon to be released on Excel. This is based on announcements by the [Microsoft Office Insider](https://insider.office.com/en-gb/) team.

See other articles in our Future of Excel series [here](https://www.fullstackmodeller.com/blog/future-of-excel).

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