Imagine this: you’re managing a sprawling Excel spreadsheet with thousands of rows of data. You need to identify high-priority tasks, flag anomalies, or categorize entries based on specific rules.

Excel functions, or formulas, lie at the heart of the application’s deep well of capabilities. Today we’ll tackle IF statements, a string of commands that determine whether a condition is met or not.

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

I traded the static results of Flash Fill for dynamic formulas that update automatically.