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Brian Jones

@brijones

I build Excel. For 40 years it's been the world's thinking tool. AI is the biggest thing to happen to it since the formula bar.

Austin, TX Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Brian Jones@brijones·
True. It’s also connected to an Access .mdb file
Scott Hanselman 🌮@shanselman

@gregyoung Fun Fact: It's not the cloud that the world's compute runs on, it's a single Excel spreadsheet with VBA that makes the earth turn

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Brian Jones@brijones·
Excel Copilot reads your workbook and helps you figure out what's going on, highlighting issues and offering to fix them. Several more improvements coming in the next few weeks will give it richer context, making it even faster with these tasks and have deeper insight.
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Brian Jones@brijones·
Here's what it looks like when you dock it (we had a bug where it wouldn't stick)
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Stephen@stevehodg·
@brijones Sticky dock! Yesss. That’s gonna be perfect.
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Brian Jones@brijones·
We just shipped Plan Mode in Excel Copilot. Sometimes you want Copilot to just go, sometimes you want to align on a plan first. Curious to hear what you think as you try it.
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Brian Jones@brijones·
@Zakrea_312 Just Excel. It needs to reboot and update to pick up the latest.
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Zakrea@Zakrea_312·
@brijones Ah good shout, will try that, I usually don't turn it off just put it in sleep mode 😆
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Brian Jones@brijones·
Yes... put Excel Copilot to work for you.
Lindiway of Prod Mgt@Linda_dadiva1

@officialladi_T See, if you have Copilot on your Excel, like same worksheet. It will do EVERYTHING and Anything for you on that same sheet. You don't need to attach it as a file in your prompt. Just open excel, open the Copilot ON Excel, tell it what to do and eat your popcorn. 😂🤭

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Brian Jones@brijones·
@Zakrea_312 Have you reboot desktop recently? It may not have updated yet.
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Zakrea@Zakrea_312·
@brijones Strange quirk I found 🤔 excel online > gpt 5.5 Excel desktop > gpt 5.2
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Brian Jones@brijones·
@LoserFan2020 As part of the copilt system work, we phased out several of the earlier UI elements like the skittle that poped up wherever your selection was.
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LoserFan2020@LoserFan2020·
@brijones If this replace the annoying Copilot hover before that block words and cells, I'll take it more than anything.
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Brian Jones@brijones·
@UseButtonAI Excel Copilot is often able to infer from the surrounding context and suggest the potential fix.
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ButtonAI@UseButtonAI·
@brijones For Excel errors, the missing context is usually what you're trying to calculate, the current formula, and the table structure. Without that, AI gives generic fixes. A structured debugging checklist helps a lot more than open-ended prompting.
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Brian Jones@brijones·
It’s a great way to learn how to get more out of Excel. Just explain your goal and it will build it for you and explain what it did. Let us know where it helps and where it could be better.
sstopp@sstopp2

@A1an_M To be fair copilot in excel is fantastic! Being able to use natural language to get excel stuff done is a godsend for those of us that are not great in excel.

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Brian Jones@brijones·
Definitely improving every week.
Research & Invest@R_and_Invest

@sapiensdiary @TechFundies Yes, yes absolutely they do make a lot of mistakes. I am thinking in a few quarters these guys will not need to make mistakes - it’s really improving. Even copilot today I had been using it daily and it’s getting quite good inside excel.

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