--- title: I finally started using Copilot in Microsoft Excel and I... description: A former skeptic of AI in Excel shares how Microsoft Copilot changed their spreadsheet workflow: cleaning messy CSV exports in seconds, writing complex nested... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-finally-started-using-copilot-in-microsoft-excel-and-i-should-have-sooner-qwriqt7nb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I finally started using Copilot in Microsoft Excel and I should have sooner | daily.dev og:description: A former skeptic of AI in Excel shares how Microsoft Copilot changed their spreadsheet workflow: cleaning messy CSV exports in seconds, writing complex nested... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-finally-started-using-copilot-in-microsoft-excel-and-i-should-have-sooner-qwriqt7nb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qwriQt7Nb.png og:image:alt: I finally started using Copilot in Microsoft Excel and I should have sooner 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. # I finally started using Copilot in Microsoft Excel and I should have sooner **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A former skeptic of AI in Excel shares how Microsoft Copilot changed their spreadsheet workflow: cleaning messy CSV exports in seconds, writing complex nested lookups (like multi-criteria XLOOKUPs) from plain-English prompts, surfacing sales trends and outliers through natural-language queries, and auto-generating PivotTables with formatted charts. The author recommends giving Copilot 20 minutes on a messy project if you already have Microsoft 365 access. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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