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Excel's New AI Function is Absolutely Insane (Copilot Function)
Leila Gharani. Live demo of the new `=COPILOT()` function on the kinds of messy real data the article describes — shift handover notes turned into a structured action table, free-text reviews tagged for sentiment, and inconsistent job titles normalized against a master list. Also calls out the limits clearly: don't use it for anything that has to be exact, freeze results as values when you're done.
AI Expert note
Watch for the limits as much as the demo: her own caveats — nothing that has to be exact, freeze results as values — are the same boundaries the article draws.
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See how spreadsheet AI can structure messy text and classify data, then check formulas and labels carefully.
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Microsoft 365 Excel with Copilot, plus comfort with ordinary formulas.
Last reviewed: May 18, 2026
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