Welcome to the October 2026 update. This month, Excel for Windows and Excel for Mac lets you name tables as you create them. Copilot in Excel adds five capabilities, from bringing in and cleaning dat...
Updated Oct 29, 2026
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I’m afraid Copilot is losing its appeal for many people. What was meant to save us time (and knowledge) is now becoming a complex tool, with agents, WorkIQ, skills, plugins, models, sources, rules, connectors, canvas and so on.
We will need to spend time attending Copilot training courses just to get to grips with all these features. Perhaps we’d be better off taking a few good Excel courses instead. As an added bonus, we might feel much more confident about our privacy and data security.