spreadsheet productivity

For anyone who has cursed a missing parenthesis mid-spreadsheet, Microsoft’s latest Excel update is the kind of small, focused improvement that feels like it was built exactly for that moment: an on-grid Copilot formula composer that turns plain English into working Excel formulas, previews the...

Microsoft’s CEO stepping into the Excel World Championship with a Copilot-powered agent at his side is more than a photo op — it’s a practical demonstration of a shift that’s quietly re‑architecting how knowledge work gets done: agentic AI is moving from “assistive” autocomplete into autonomous...