Copilot is coming to Microsoft 365

A couple of days ago, Microsoft announced its new AI-powered virtual assistant called Copilot.

Popular apps, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, will all benefit from the technology in their respective ways.

In Excel, you’ll be able to ask questions about your data, identify trends, and generate visualisations in record time.

Microsoft is currently testing Copilot with 20 customers, eight of whom work at Fortune 500 companies. The preview will be expanded further in the coming months.

It promises to be more helpful than Clippy, the animated paperclip that obtrusively featured on our screens in older versions of Office.

I jolly well hope so, anyway!

Check out this segment about Copilot in Excel, taken from the introduction video at https://youtu.be/ebls5x-gb0s (8:00–9:34).

Will Copilot effectively replace Analyze Data?