Excel can now write its own formulas, and I haven’t typed one since

Plain English is all Copilot needs to build a formula
The sidebar turns a sentence into a working column
I used to dodge the nested formulas
Layered IFs, lookups, and date math in a single prompt
The new COPILOT function puts AI right inside a cell
It spills results like SORT, but takes natural language as input
Copilot explains formulas I didn’t write and can’t read
Inherited spreadsheets stop being a black box
Typing formulas is starting to feel optional
But I still read everything Copilot hands back