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Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it


It's so much easier to create, summarize, and analyze data now - no complex manual formulas required.

"It can be painful and time-consuming to wrangle data, summarize feedback, categorize information, and brainstorm ideas," Microsoft said in its blog post. Just enter a natural language prompt in your spreadsheet, reference cell values as needed, and watch Copilot instantly generate AI-powered results." As one example offered by Microsoft, let's say you've created a spreadsheet that collects comments from fellow employees about a new coffee machine in the office.

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