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.

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

Claude integrated advanced Excel support, drawing reactions on the internet.

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When you stop and think about it, you don’t hear the words “spreadsheet” and “exciting” in a sentence together terribly often. And it’s no wonder: Spreadsheets are useful. They’re familiar. In some ...