Using Copilot in Excel: A Beginner’s Guide

• A working sense of how Copilot inside Excel can build formulas, summarize data, and take repetitive tasks off your plate
• Do’s, don’ts, and best practices for uploading Excel files to Copilot, so you know what to share and what to hold back
• Practical ways to use Copilot to clean up and organize messy data before you start your analysis
• A starting point for using Copilot to write VBA code, even if you’ve never written a macro yourself
• Tips for personalizing Copilot so its responses fit the way you work

Mike Thomas has worked in the IT training business since 1989. He is a subject matter expert in a range of technologies, his primary focus and passion being Microsoft Office (especially Excel) and Power BI. In 2012 Mike founded The Excel Trainer where he has produced nearly 200 written and video-based Excel tutorials. He has recorded several Excel training courses for Pluralsight and in his career delivered thousands of courses and webinars on a wide variety of technology-related topics. Mike is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of sectors. In addition to training, he also designs and develops Microsoft Office-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes.