--- title: Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the... description: Microsoft is rolling out Excel Canvas throughout October, a Copilot-powered feature that turns workbook data into polished reports with charts, metrics, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report-mua2hzsmv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft is rolling out Excel Canvas throughout October, a Copilot-powered feature that turns workbook data into polished reports with charts, metrics, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report-mua2hzsmv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MUa2hZsmV.png og:image:alt: Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft is rolling out Excel Canvas throughout October, a Copilot-powered feature that turns workbook data into polished reports with charts, metrics, and insights, refreshing automatically as underlying data changes. Users need Copilot in Excel access and can adjust reports via natural language prompts. The rollout follows a pattern of rocky Copilot additions to Excel, including a disliked floating Dynamic Action Button that had to be made dismissible, and the abandoned COPILOT() function, which was dropped in August just a year after launch, with Microsoft citing accuracy concerns for business-critical use. Canvas also competes against established dashboard tools already in use at many businesses. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Excel Canvas in Microsoft Excel? Excel Canvas is a Copilot-powered feature Microsoft is rolling out through October that transforms workbook data into a polished report containing visualizations, metrics, and insights. The reports refresh automatically as the underlying spreadsheet data changes, and users can tweak them using natural language prompts, provided they have access to Copilot in Excel. _Anyone weighing new AI reporting features against existing dashboard tools can track Excel and Copilot updates on daily.dev._ ### What happened to the Excel COPILOT() function? Microsoft abandoned the COPILOT() function in August, barely 12 months after introducing it, stating it had decided not to move forward with the feature. The function had carried a warning that its output should be checked for accuracy, especially when used for business decisions or reports, which proved an awkward caveat for a tool meant to automate spreadsheet work. _Teams relying on Excel's AI features can follow these reversals on daily.dev before building workflows around them._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Excel's new Copilot feature will turn your spreadsheets into interactive visuals, and they'll auto-update too](https://daily.dev/posts/excel-s-new-copilot-feature-will-turn-your-spreadsheets-into-interactive-visuals-and-they-ll-auto-u-mvrknhvxc) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Microsoft's Copilot just became the productivity collaborator it was promised to be](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-s-copilot-just-became-the-productivity-collaborator-it-was-promised-to-be-r1dpjgge4) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Copilot on Windows can now create Office documents and connect to Gmail](https://daily.dev/posts/copilot-on-windows-can-now-create-office-documents-and-connect-to-gmail-sywnleei0) · The Verge · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#microsoft](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report-mua2hzsmv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report-mua2hzsmv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report-mua2hzsmv"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T12:27:27.106Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T12:27:45.487Z","description":"Microsoft is rolling out Excel Canvas throughout October, a Copilot-powered feature that turns workbook data into polished reports with charts, metrics, and...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5f875695d7de341a9e134b7c7ac83514?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5f875695d7de341a9e134b7c7ac83514?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Register","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Register","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/66aa2113fdad463992ffcbf0e8963fda","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/theregister"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report-mua2hzsmv","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"microsoft","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Register","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/theregister"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-boss-s-next-report-mua2hzsmv#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is Excel Canvas in Microsoft Excel?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Excel Canvas is a Copilot-powered feature Microsoft is rolling out through October that transforms workbook data into a polished report containing visualizations, metrics, and insights. 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