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Copilot in Excel helps you generate formulas, analyze and summarize data, and add helpful visuals to spreadsheets.

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Find Excel templates

Bring your ideas to life and streamline your work by starting with professionally designed, fully customizable templates from Microsoft Create.

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Analyze Data

Ask questions about your data without having to write complicated formulas. Not available in all locales.

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End of support for Excel 2016 and Excel 2019

Support for Excel 2016 and Excel 2019 will end on October 14, 2025. Learn what end of Excel 2016 and Excel 2019 support means for you.

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Use XLOOKUP to find what you need

Work with stocks and geography data

Turn your data into insights

Use functions

List of all Excel functions available

VLOOKUP function

IF function

Customize your data

Create a drop-down list

Combine text from two or more cells

Freeze panes to lock rows & columns

Analyze with PivotTables

Create a PivotTable to analyze worksheet data

Design the layout and format of a PivotTable

Sort data in a PivotTable or PivotChart

Follow your stocks

Use linked data types to track and analyze stock data. Or analyze trends based on geographical locales.

Get stock market and geographic data types in Excel

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