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.

To kick things off, let’s explore how to perform essential calculations like determining the total salary and headcount by department. This is where functions such as `COUNTIFS`, `SUMIFS`, and ...

Make Excel evaluate your data for you.

Not everyone is an Excel spreadsheet expert and you may not always know how to write the formulas you need for a given data set. If you're having trouble figuring out the right formula for your data ...

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

We test Claude in Excel, a beta version add-in requiring a paid plan, and show where it saves time on formula fixes.