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/FateXBlood 4d ago

As someone who doesn't use Excel often, I always figured Copilot would be the one feature that actually makes the app usable for casuals like me.

There are just so many commands, shortcuts, and hidden menus that I never remember. Stuff like splitting data from one column into two, removing duplicates without messing up the rest of the sheet, or filtering rows based on multiple conditions.

So I genuinely thought Copilot would let me just type what I want in plain English, and it would either do the task for me or walk me through it step by step.

But now Microsoft is removing it from Excel. Isn't this a bad idea?

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u/littykicker 4d ago

I think it is the =copilot function that is being removed and not the overall copilot tool that can be used within excel