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Excel's New Copilot Function Turns Your Prompts Into Formulas - How to Try It

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

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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.

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Microsoft Excel is currently testing a new AI-based function called "COPILOT" that automatically fills the cells in your spreadsheets. Users can use it to generate, summarize, and analyze data using natural language prompts in a cell. But Microsoft warns against its use in "high stake scenarios" with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as Copilot can give answers to these questions.

Microsoft Excel has released the COPILOT() function, which supports natural language processing of data, summarization, and categorization within formulas. This function can be used with existing Excel formulas and supports contextual references. A beta version is currently available, with a maximum limit of 100 calls per 10 minutes.

The Copilot is Microsoft's all-round AI, a response to ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. But the Copilot AI is more than a chatbot, it is Microsoft's basis for AI-based transformations in the digital space. Recently, the Copilot has been equipped with the groundbreaking OpenAI GPT-5 model. Now, a new and highly practical application option of the Copilot causes a stir. Directly in Excel, the Go-to tool for millions of people in their everyday lives, a…

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