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Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel adds Skills
Microsoft has added Skills to Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel, flagged by Jack Rowbotham. Teams can teach Copilot a repeatable workflow once, then have it follow that process on demand: prebuilt, custom, and developer/partner skills are supported.
What changed
Rather than starting from scratch each time, the skill applies the right structure and steps automatically, bringing reusable, agentic automation into the spreadsheet.
For analysts and marketers who live in Excel, encoding a recurring process as a skill means Copilot can execute it consistently rather than being re-prompted each time.
Why it matters for advertisers
For you, this means repetitive Excel workflows can be captured once and re-run by Copilot. Worth identifying a high-frequency reporting or data-cleaning task to encode as a skill first, then validating its output before trusting it on live data.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel adds Skills
Microsoft has added Skills to Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel, flagged by Jack Rowbotham. Teams can teach Copilot a repeatable workflow once, then have it follow that process on demand: prebuilt, custom, and developer/partner skills are supported. Rather than starting from scratch each time, the skill applies the right structure and steps automatically, bringing reusable, agentic automation into the spreadsheet.
For analysts and marketers who live in Excel, encoding a recurring process as a skill means Copilot can execute it consistently rather than being re-prompted each time.
For you, this means repetitive Excel workflows can be captured once and re-run by Copilot. Worth identifying a high-frequency reporting or data-cleaning task to encode as a skill first, then validating its output before trusting it on live data.
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