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"In-Review" status on my replies.
- Aug 11, 2026
Actually it means nothing
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Hi mathetes,
This hypothesis may be true, but I have been contributing for years, not only to this forum but also to other Microsoft forums (I have also contributed to the Microsoft Support Community (for more than 10 years) which is now finally closed).
Meanwhile, I do not use AI to give my Excel answers / replays. Today I made a post and immediately the status was set to In Review. Also, the post in this thread that I am responding to here was also set to In Review. So in both of today's posts this status was set. One post contains the Excel formula that I created and the current post contains just text.
This does not seem correct to me!
(the In Review status has now been removed from both of my last posts)
Anyway, thank you for your comment / opinion. I appreciate it very much.
Have a nice day.
Oh, let me be clear. I was not in any way accusing you of using AI in your posts. Like you, I've been contributing in this forum for years, and just recently noticed the "In review" tag on some of mine. So it was purely a hypothesis for users in general. The subsequent post by SergeiBaklan gives the actual reason: it's a bug!!
I have noticed that in recent months there seem to be far fewer questions from new or novice users seeking help, and I strongly suspect that's because new Excel users now have access to Claude, ChapGPT and even Microsoft's own built-in AI assistant.