Recently, in the lower right corner of every Excel or other Office document, you can notice a new floating icon that allows direct access to the Copilot application. When you hover the cursor over it, a context menu with several useful options automatically opens, while clicking on the icon or pressing the F6 key, on the right side of the Excel window, opens a panel that allows direct correspondence with Microsoft Copilot.
How to take the first few rows from a table? How do we make this a parameter that we can change? This feature can be useful when we simply want to retrieve the first few rows from a table, or when it contains e.g. some sales data, we can sort them in descending order by the column that contains the sales value, and then we extract the Top 5 items.
The TRANSLATE function became part of Excel in July 2024, and recently we have another useful function that you can use to detect the language in which a text is written. It’s a new DETECTLANGUAGE function, and you can use it in conjunction with the TRANSLATE function.
Although Excel recognizes only two types of data: numbers and text, sometimes you’ll be working with Boolean values, such as TRUE and FALSE expressions. There is a simple trick to convert these values into ones and zeros respectively, so that you can add them more easily, and you will find out how to do this in a short “recipe” that follows.
When creating queries to Microsoft Copilot, it’s important to be concise and clear. There are rules on how to write a quality prompt, and if you follow them, the likelihood of getting the desired response in fewer steps increases. However, keep in mind that artificial intelligence is not omnipotent or intelligent, but that it is a complex software that has access to a huge knowledge base, and it is up to you to extract the desired information.