This month’s updates see the announcement of Copilot in Excel and Python in Excel, both of which are now Generally Available and ready to assist data-driven professionals around the world. In addition, there’s the public Preview of Copilot in Excel with Python, enabling powerful advanced analysis too.

Some big news for those that like to “go dark”...

Python in Excel is now Generally Available for Windows users of Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise. Back in August 2023, in partnership with Anaconda, Microsoft introduced Python integrated into Excel, making it possible to combine Python and Excel analytics within the same workbook, with no setup required. Since then, Excel has brought the power of popular Python analytics libraries such as pandas, Matplotlib and NLTK to analytical users.

Microsoft has recently unveiled the next wave of Copilot including the announcement that Copilot in Excel is now Generally Available. In addition, the company has also broadcast the public Preview of Copilot in Excel with Python too.

Microsoft announced a new function, TRIMRANGE, and an accompanying set of new reference operators today...

This month’s updates see Excel reach a new watermark – quite literally!

It’s that time of the month again. This month’s updates see you now able to ask Copilot questions against your semantic model. But there is always more. For example, updated Save and ‘Upload to OneDrive Flow’ in Power BI, plus the Narrative visual with Copilot is now available in SaaS embed.

The term “regex” is an abbreviation of “regular expressions” and is a language used for pattern-matching text content. Regular expressions are starting to infiltrate Excel. In the latest release, currently in Preview, you may take further advantage of regex within the existing XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions...

Congratulations to SumProduct’s very own Kathryn Newitt who has just contributed / co-contributed her 400th Power Query / Get & Transform article.

This month sees you able to use Copilot in Excel to unlock insights from data, work on data ranges resembling tables and prompt for step-by-step instructions including formula examples. But that’s not all...