With it, users will be able to use natural language to describe the actions they want to perform, and Copilot will automatically generate, explain, and insert Python code into the Excel spreadsheet.

Writing Python code in the Excel public preview – currently available through the beta channel to those in the Microsoft 365 Insiders program, and coming first to Excel for Windows, build 16818 – is ...

You might think of Microsoft Excel as just rows and columns, a place for basic calculations and simple charts. And while it certainly excels (no pun intended) at those fundamental tasks, the ...

Python and Excel can only really talk to each other through limited functions—xl() and =PY()—that can only return code results, not macros, VBA code, or other data, Microsoft claims.