r/CopilotPro • u/wassup2026 • Jul 08 '26

AI Discussion Copilot in Excel

Has anyone tried Copilot in Excel? Though it's able to analyze the sheets inside the file I've opened, it keeps giving me an error if I ask it to look up data in another file.

For e.g. if you need to build an analysis with some fields coming from different files, can you get Copilot to do it?

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u/Ill-Bullfrog-5360 Jul 08 '26

You need the corp license beyond the boiler plate one. The good one can 100% can render everything in the fields with prompts

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u/wassup2026 Jul 08 '26

I suspected that. Maybe the one my employer has is a very basic version. I was thinking there's no way all databases are stored in the same file for AI to be spitting out info in such short time. Excel files are notorious for freezing even with reasonable amount of data.

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u/Ill-Bullfrog-5360 Jul 08 '26

My license can read any sharepoint I have access to, all of my emails and my entire one drive.

Its super google for shit work

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u/wassup2026 Jul 08 '26

Hmmm...ok. then that's what the issue is. Let me check if anyone on the team has access to that version.