Identify insights with Copilot in Excel

Copilot can show insights based on your data or a specific question you ask about your data.

Select the Copilot button in the ribbon.
Select Understand.
Copilot analyzes your data to show insights as charts, PivotTables, summaries, trends, or outliers.
After Copilot has analyzed your data, review the insights to find ones that help you make the most of your data.

To add a chart to a sheet, select Add to a new sheet.
If multiple insights are available, you can add all insights to a grid in a new sheet.
To undo this, select Undo.

Got a particular question in mind?

In the Copilot prompt box describe what you’d like to know by asking a question about your data in your own words, then press Enter (or select Send Send message icon in Teams ).

Try this

Here are some suggestions for prompts you might want to try. Copy them and modify them to suit your data.

Got a dataset that includes people with their country and dates of birth and death?

How many people in this list are still alive?
How many people in this list were born in Africa?
How many women in this list were born in the 1800s?

Tip: Be specific with your questions - the more detail you provide, the better Copilot can help. This includes clearly specifying the column headers you want to reference for formatting or analysis queries.

How about a dataset of product sales with date and state?

Which product sold the most in California?
How many widgets did we sell in March?
What were the top 3 states for total sales in the first quarter?

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Identify insights with Copilot in Excel

Got a particular question in mind?

Try this

Got a dataset that includes people with their country and dates of birth and death?

How about a dataset of product sales with date and state?

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