Fix "fake" numbers, strip hidden web spaces, and join text professionally using Excel's built-in legacy and modern tools.

As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.

Make Excel evaluate your data for you.

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.

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Excel now supports IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions that load external text and CSV files as dynamic arrays, making it ...