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 have now tested Lists. In theory they are a great idea but as usual with new Excel features they don't work very well for people in countries which use a comma as a decimal separator. We also use commas to separate text entries. But for lists to work they have to use semicolons which means all existing entries need to be converted. I also found it disappointing that the retirement of the COPILOT function wasn't announced in last month's blog.