Microsoft has quietly folded generative AI into Excel’s calculation engine with a native worksheet function — =COPILOT(... — that accepts plain‑language prompts, reads cell ranges as context, and returns live, spillable outputs directly into the spreadsheet grid. Early previews show it can...
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