Quick summary
Microsoft Copilot in Excel is an AI-powered assistant that lets you analyze data, generate insights, and insert results directly into your spreadsheet using natural language prompts. Once activated from the Home tab ribbon, Copilot opens a chat panel where you can ask questions and push answers straight into your Excel sheet.
Steps
- Open Excel by clicking the 'Open Excel' button on the Microsoft 365 homepage.
- Select a sheet you want to edit from your available workbooks.
- Navigate to the 'Home' tab in the Excel ribbon.
- Click the Copilot button in the ribbon, located in the top-right area.
- A Copilot chat panel opens on the right side of your screen.
- Type your prompts or questions into the Copilot chat panel to interact with your data.
- Insert Copilot's output into your Excel sheet using the 'Add to new sheet' option.



