Copilot makes lookups in Excel easy

Imagine you have a list of things, like a price list of toys for example.

You'd like to add a column that shows how many of each item you have in stock, but you don't want to have to type all of that manually. Fortunately, you have a table on another sheet that contains the current inventory by product ID.

Now you just need to have Excel look up the stock based on the product ID. Copilot can help. 

1. Select the Copilot   button on the ribbon.

2. In the prompt box ask Copilot to create your lookup column. Try a prompt like this:
   
   Create a column that looks up the quantity in stock for each item from the inventory sheet.
   
   or
   
   Add a stock column to this table based on the value in the other table in my workbook.

3. Copilot will look over your data and recommend a formula that looks up the stock and inserts it in your price list.
   
   

4. Copilot has recommend an XLookup formula that looks up the stock quantity from the Inventory sheet and inserts it here on the price list. Select +Insert Column to add the column to your price list sheet.

Just like that you've got a quantity in stock column on your price list, and because it's an XLookup from the other sheet as the inventory numbers on that other sheet change the inventory numbers on your price sheet will change automatically as well.