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is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.