As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.

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Five formulas, fewer clicks, and a lot less spreadsheet suffering.

If Excel is showing formulas instead of results on your Windows PC, check the cell format, turn off the 'Show Formulas' ...

Fix "fake" numbers, strip hidden web spaces, and join text professionally using Excel's built-in legacy and modern tools.

Excel's query tool reshapes messy imports into 1NF, so AVERAGEIFS replaces hacks and your summaries run faster.

Excel now supports IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions that load external text and CSV files as dynamic arrays, making it easier to refresh and reuse frequently updated data inside a worksheet. The ...

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