Discover 15 modern Excel functions for 2026, including Group By and Scan, so you speed up your workflows, summaries and ...

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

Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

Excel spreadsheets can often contain large amounts of data ranging across broad categories. For example, a sales spreadsheet might record sales of products across multiple departments, or within ...