As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.

We test Claude in Excel, a beta version add-in requiring a paid plan, and show where it saves time on formula fixes.

Excel gets a host of new features in January 2026 ...

For the most part, you're probably accustomed to using Microsoft Excel for tasks such as preparing reports, forecasts, and budgets. However, Excel is much more powerful than that. It can be used to ...

Small databases of a few rows, to a few thousand rows, can often be created more quickly and easily in Microsoft Excel, than by using a dedicated database system. Excel is available as a stand-alone ...

Make Excel evaluate your data for you.

I’ve been helping an administrative assistant (who also happens to be a close relative—see what comes of having a reputation for using technology?) who needs a database on her job to track employee ...

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.

Discover 15 modern Excel functions for 2026, including Group By and Scan, so you speed up your workflows, summaries and ...

Microsoft Excel is great for numbers, certainly, it does this job really well. But, if you want to present your data in an attractive manner that allows you to visualize and analyze it easily, then ...