Microsoft MVP shows Microsoft 365 Copilot doing Excel work by voice

Asada, who holds Microsoft's "Microsoft MVP" designation, built his demo around a made-up data set from an electric-vehicle maker's sales department. The sheet held salesperson names, product names, quantities sold and delivery-delay days — the kind of working file that many teams keep. Against that backdrop, the two tasks he chose are the ones that most often stall non-expert users: highlighting late orders, and matching one table to another.

In the first task, Copilot filled the delayed rows red after being told to mark rows delayed 10 days or more. That is work that previously meant setting conditional-formatting rules or filtering and recoloring cells by hand. In the second, it updated the unit-price column using product names as the key against a master list, and showed errors for names that could not be matched, as Asada had requested. These are the steps VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP normally require, with their lookup value, range, column number and match type.

The last demo — building a report with pivot tables and charts — is the one the article does not resolve, pointing instead to ITmedia's video channel. So the practical question for Excel-heavy teams is whether that multi-step work holds up the way the first two did; the small demo shown here suggests the simpler editing and matching tasks are already within reach.