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

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The FILTER function extracts every matching record while XLOOKUP only returns the first result.

Excel's query tool reshapes messy imports into 1NF, so AVERAGEIFS replaces hacks and your summaries run faster.

AI Copilot in Excel helps clean dates, split columns, and add currency formats, so you save time and make faster, clearer decisions.

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