Modern business intelligence demands speed, and utilizing AI tools for Excel is the ultimate way to hyper-charge your data workflows this year.

The new features, including connectors to third-party data sources, are aimed at making the AI assistant more useful for ...

Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.

The rollout of this new Gemini in Sheets feature starts today for Google AI Pro and Ultra users. It will also be available for Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and ...

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Microsoft's Build 2026 conference produced the year's biggest enterprise-AI announcement, and the piece with the widest reach is also the most concrete: Anthropic's Claude is now an option in Excel ...

Microsoft has rolled out several Excel updates this month, among which deeper Copilot integration is integral part of it. At a time when AI tools are becoming more embedded in productivity software, ...

So far Excel users had three ways to invoke Copilot. Microsoft has now decided that was three too many. In February 2026, the company retired App Skills entry points from the Excel ribbon and context ...

A critical sandbox escape vulnerability in Grist-Core has been disclosed that allows remote code execution (RCE) through a single malicious spreadsheet formula. The issue was uncovered by Cyera ...

These tricks show how AI tools, new import formulas, and classic features improve productivity. Excel has outlasted many tech trends, and in the age of AI, it remains very much in the mix. While new ...