At nearly every public webinar I've run this year, somebody asks me some version of the same question: We don't have Copilot licenses. Is there anything we can actually do with AI in Excel? As …
How to work with skills in Copilot for Excel
For a while, using AI in Excel meant starting from scratch every time. You would explain what you wanted, Copilot would take its best guess, you would correct it, and the next day you would go through …
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How to understand personalization versus rules in Copilot for Excel
Been using Copilot in Excel for a while? Maybe your prompts work, but you keep repeating yourself. Every session starts with the same housekeeping: format currency this way, use this chart style, do …
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How to learn Copilot in Excel from Stringfest Analytics
So you want AI in your spreadsheets? Copilot is sitting right there in the ribbon, your boss keeps forwarding you articles about it, and you have a feeling you should be doing something with it by …
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How to use a data visualization style guide in Copilot for Excel
In a previous post, we discussed how to get better results from AI assistants in Excel by giving them clear rules around workbook structure, formula selection, and overall design: Another …
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How to get better results from Excel AI assistants
One thing Excel AI assistants like Copilot and Claude really need is a way to load system-level preferences and modeling instructions. Right now, when you ask these tools to build a workbook, they …
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