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

Have you ever opened an Excel spreadsheet and felt instantly overwhelmed by cluttered data, mismatched fonts, or confusing layouts? It’s a common frustration, yet so many of us accept it as the norm.

Use Microsoft 365 View > Navigation to find, rename, or hide sheets in one place, keeping large workbooks tidy and easier to manage.

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

In this month’s column, find out how to change text strings to sentence case in Excel. The Navigation Pane in Excel is a useful tool that allows users to easily move around and manage large workbooks.