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Building Agent Mode in Excel

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Sep 29, 2025

How we designed an intelligent spreadsheet agent by combining advanced reasoning with Excel’s dynamic calculation engine

Excel is the world’s most trusted canvas for working with data, powering everything from household budgets to Fortune 500 companies, scientific research, operational planning, and classroom learning....
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Oct 30, 2025

This is the most amazing AI-powered thing I've seen after chatGPT itself in November 2022, thank you! I'm working through advanced use cases and hitting some limitations when dealing with quite hard tasks. I'm sure they will be resolved eventually. But for now, is there a channel to developers that I can communicate specific issues I encounter? Thank you