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get data
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The 'get data' tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about retrieving, importing, and structuring data within Microsoft Excel and related tools. Recent content highlights the COPILOT function in Excel, which uses generative AI to accept plain-language prompts and return live outputs like summarized text, classified rows, extracted tables, and placeholder data directly into spreadsheet cells. This feature is positioned as a text-and-structure assistant rather than a replacement for deterministic math or financial reporting. The tag reflects user interest in modern data retrieval methods, including AI-assisted workflows, within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
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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