Microsoft Copilot can now handle more of your finance work in Excel with reusable skills and data connectors

Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...

Excel and AI to get ‘tighter and tighter.’ Here’s what that means

Microsoft Excel chief Brian Jones said this week that he sees AI as the engine driving Excel as a "decision-making tool." Let ...

Microsoft adds new skills — and more oversight — for Copilot in Excel

The new features, including connectors to third-party data sources, are aimed at making the AI assistant more useful for finance professionals.
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Microsoft Copilot can now help with Excel formulas, make PowerPoints, and more

After a year and a half of Copilot, the generative AI tool is getting to a genuinely useful place. That literal and figurative place is in Microsoft Excel. At the Microsoft 365 Copilot livestream on ...

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Office meets genAI and agents

As Microsoft yanks back free Copilot access in Office apps for its largest customers, IT leaders face a choice: Pay premium or lose in-app AI integration. Here is the 2026 roadmap for M365 Copilot ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shares MAI AI strategy, says new models will cut costs and power Copilot, Outlook, Excel

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the MAI AI strategy, saying new AI models will lower costs, improve Copilot, Outlook, Excel and enterprise AI.
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GPT-5.6 Becomes Microsoft Copilot's Preferred Model Amid MAI Push

OpenAI designated GPT-5.6 as the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot on launch day, days after Bloomberg reported ...
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The New Copilot Function Vastly Improves Microsoft Excel, Part 2

Microsoft’s new Copilot function in Excel lets users generate, analyze and explain data directly from cell formulas, marking a major step toward full AI integration within spreadsheets. Microsoft’s ...
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents

We’re launching the next wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing together web + work + Pages as a new design system for knowledge work. First, we’re announcing Copilot Pages—a dynamic, persistent ...
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Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel now allows you to clean data with just one click

Microsoft 365 Copilot introduces a new "Clean Data" feature in Excel, enabling users to address common data issues like text inconsistencies. Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI assistant available in ...

Microsoft is quietly replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models inside GitHub Copilot, Excel and Outlook, and CEO Satya Nadella just explained the plan

Microsoft is routing work inside GitHub Copilot, Excel and Outlook away from OpenAI and Anthropic models, towards its own MAI ...

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Get Free Grok AI Assistant

Elon Musk’s xAI has brought Grok into Microsoft Office apps through new Microsoft 365 add-ins for free. The Grok add-ins are available for Word, Excel and ...