Microsoft Copilot in Excel – Microsoft Adoption

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Explore Copilot capabilities in Excel

Try new and existing capabilities that help you edit workbooks, plan changes, repeat common tasks, and analyze connected data.

Change history

Understand, review, and repair
workbook changes

Quickly catch up on what changed without manually comparing versions. Copilot summarizes human and AI edits, explains the impact of changes, and helps restore selected cells or formulas without disrupting the rest of the workbook.

Chart design

Create polished charts

Turn raw data into clearer visuals without manually formatting every element. Copilot creates new charts, recommends the best chart types, and improves existing charts with titles, labels, legends, and other enhancements to help insights stand out.

Rules and personalization

Customize Copilot to work your way

Get more consistent results without repeating the same instructions. Copilot can follow workbook-specific rules and personal preferences for formatting, formulas, layouts, and visualizations, helping every output match the standards you already use.

Workbook explanation

Understand complex workbooks quickly

Get up to speed quickly without digging through every sheet. Copilot can explain workbook structure, define columns and worksheets, identify issues, and highlight errors with guidance so you can quickly understand what needs attention.

Skills

Bring expert workflows into Excel

Streamline specialized tasks with built-in or custom skills. Skills provide Copilot with the instructions, knowledge, and business context needed to perform repeatable workflows more accurately and consistently.

Use cases

Get from data to decisions faster

Understand your data

Summarize key points

Analyze this workbook and give me interesting data insights.

Summarize key points

Analyze this workbook and give me interesting data insights.

Summarize key points

Analyze this workbook and give me interesting data insights.

Resolve issues

Find issues

Identify any inconsistencies in the data and recommend how to fix them.

Investigate errors

Explain and suggest a fix for the error in formula.

Model outcomes

Forecast scenario

Use this data to generate a sales forecast.

Understand relationships

Analyze the data by performing a regression analysis.

Build calculations

Write a formula that description.

Create and organize

Craft a template

Create a summary report template of technical support cases handled, including common issues and resolutions.

Prepare a checklist

Create a checklist for an ad hoc production-line inspection.

Track priorities

Create an issue tracking table and highlight priority with different colors.

Customer stories

See how organizations use Copilot in Excel

Explore customer outcomes from using Copilot in Excel for analysis, automation, and operational workflows.

National Football League (NFL)

NFL coaches and analysts take gameday to the next level with Copilot in Excel

Explore how the NFL uses Excel to bring together data, uncover insights, and improve gameday operations.

Hyundai Glovis

Hyundai Glovis improves shipment data accuracy with Copilot in Excel

See how teams check high-volume shipment data, spot inconsistencies, and work with greater confidence.

Absa

Absa enables advanced data analysis with Copilot in Excel

Discover how employees explore complex datasets with natural language and turn analysis into actionable insights.

Globo

Globo reduces process execution time by 97% with Copilot in Excel

See how Globo transformed a repetitive spreadsheet workflow, freeing teams to focus on higher-value work.

Learn & support

Learn how to use Copilot in Excel

Start with the fundamentals and learn how to turn workbook data into insights.

User help and learning

Learn how Copilot helps you edit worksheets, create formulas, and work across edit, plan, and chat modes.

Identify insights with Copilot

Explore how to ask questions about your data and surface summaries, trends, outliers, charts, and PivotTables.

Build your Copilot foundation

Learn Copilot fundamentals, practice effective prompting, and build skills that help you work more productively.

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Other Copilot experiences

Agents in Microsoft 365

Microsoft Copilot for US Government

Sales solution in Microsoft Copilot

Service solution in Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot for SMB

Microsoft Copilot in Teams

Microsoft Security Copilot

Microsoft Copilot in Dynamics 365 Customer Service

Microsoft Copilot Studio

GitHub Copilot

Join the Community

Ask questions and share your experience with other customers on the Microsoft Tech Community.

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