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Copilot Unable to identify Cell Color
Hi, I’ve encountered a problem with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel. Previously, Copilot was able to identify the color of specific cells in my workbook. For example, it successfully provided the col...
It's not an official functionality as I understand, same for creating and editing Excel spreadsheets through Copilot Chat. Our users experience intermittent issues with this and I have to advise them of this standpoint. Microsoft is just sending the request to OpenAI and if it comes back that it can do it, great, but sometimes not.
Microsoft should ideally block the ability to interact with spreadsheets through Copilot Chat until it's implemented fully, to avoid these intermittent issues.
Using a reasoning model may be more successful - such as Microsoft's Analyst agent (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilotblog/analyst-agent-in-microsoft-365-copilot/4397191) or ChatGPT o3/o3-mini (Tools > 'Think Longer'),