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We'll also see how well it generates new data, and finally we'll go over the key limitations of the copilot function. At the very end, I'll show you an alternative function to the copilot formula in ...

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Imagine transforming hours of tedious data work into mere minutes of productivity. That’s the promise of Microsoft Copilot in Excel, a new AI-powered assistant designed to transform how you manage, ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

Q. Traditional PivotTables have always intimidated me. I see there is a new Excel function called PIVOTBY. What is the difference between it and the traditional PivotTable? With the PIVOTBY function, ...

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Microsoft Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software that has been around for decades. To learn Excel, start slowly, play around with the basics, and seek out online tutorials. Excel is part of the ...

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I fear the topic of this column is poised to unleash a tsunami of controversy. My engineering accomplice Joe Farr says that this is one of those topics that, when presented to 10 different engineers, ...