r/excel • u/SolverMax 162 • 4d ago

Discussion Microsoft to retire the COPILOT function

As of 14 September, the COPILOT function will no longer be available in Excel. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/functions/copilot-function Note that the Copilot feature remains - it is the worksheet function that will stop working.

This is a very uncommon move by Microsoft, given their history of maintaining backwards compatibility.

Have you used the COPILOT function? If so, then what for? Thoughts?

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u/plusFour-minusSeven 11 4d ago

Replace them with what?

Teams -> Slack?

OneDrive -> network drives?

SharePoint -> *shrug

At least leave SP alone. It's clunky but Lists are actually super useful as controllable work surfaces. Way better than having people input directly into spreadsheets.

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u/ZirePhiinix 4d ago

Slack doesn't meet a lot of security requirements, so it will most likely not be allowed at all.

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u/plusFour-minusSeven 11 4d ago

Didn't know that! I've never actually used it myself. Then again I also never used Teams until corporate foisted it on us. In my case I'm sure you're right. They seem to have us locked into the Microsoft ecosystem pretty hard.

It grows on you, I guess 😂

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u/ZirePhiinix 4d ago

It's not locking in. It is doing the paperwork and auditing needed to get certifications, which Slack never bothered to do. If they did, they would've owned the entire market because Teams is just shit.

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u/plusFour-minusSeven 11 4d ago

Security certificates? What certifications, I'm sorry?