Recent Blog ArticlesNewest TopicsMost LikesTagged:TagWhat's New in Excel (February 2026) Welcome to the February 2026 update. This month we are excited to announce expanded availability for Agent Mode in Excel, as well that you can now query modern Excel workbooks (like .xlsx, .xlsb, .xl...App Skills is evolving with Copilot in Excel We are continuing to streamline the ways people engage with Copilot in Excel, and we've heard your feedback that working across multiple Copilot entry points can feel fragmented. To address this, Cop...What's New in Excel (January 2026) Agent Mode in Excel is now generally available in Excel on Windows and is rolling out to Excel on Mac, as well as the full Power Query experience in Excel for the web, and more this month! Excel in 2025: A Year of Culture, Craft, and Copilot As 2025 comes to a close, one thing feels clearer than ever: Excel is no longer just something you use. It’s something you belong to. This year brought major product innovations, many powered by A...Agent Mode in Excel is now generally available on Excel for Web We’re excited to announce that Agent Mode in Excel is now generally available on Excel for Web, rolling out to users with a commercial Microsoft 365 Copilot license or a Microsoft 365 Premium subscri...What's New in Excel (November 2025) Welcome to the November 2025 update. This month, we’re excited to share several enhancements across Excel. Announced at Ignite, Agent Mode in Excel now includes web search and Anthropic model support...What's New in Excel (October 2025) This month, look for Agent Mode in Excel (Frontier) in the Tools menu of Copilot for Excel. Additionally, PivotTable #SPILL and accessibility assistant updates are now available to Insider users on W...Spreadsheet Day - Celebrate the grid that changed everything October 17 marks a quiet revolution. On this day in 1979, VisiCalc shipped—the first electronic spreadsheet—and suddenly, anyone with a computer could model ideas, track budgets, and make decisions f...What's New in Excel (September 2025) This month we celebrate Excel's 40th Birthday, the release of the new Agent Mode in Excel, as well as formula completion with Copilot in Excel and more. 🎉 Excel Turns 40! Join Our Reddit AMA 🎉 Celebrate Excel's 40th Birthday by joining the Microsoft Excel team for our Reddit AMA on September 30, 2025, at 10AM PT.