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

Manage layers, hide overlapping charts, and find ghost objects using Excel’s powerful Selection Pane.

A Visual Basic text box may be used to capture user input in Microsoft Excel. Typically, users type data into spreadsheet cells, but text boxes read data from dialog boxes that do not contain cells.

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