{"id":64715,"date":"2026-04-20T12:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/?p=64715"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:14:15","slug":"excel-can-now-write-its-own-formulas-and-i-havent-typed-one-since","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/excel-can-now-write-its-own-formulas-and-i-havent-typed-one-since\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel can now write its own formulas, and I haven&#8217;t typed one since"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excel can now write its own formulas, and I haven&#8217;t typed one since<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/excel-can-write-own-formulas-havent-typed-one-since\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/excel-can-write-own-formulas-havent-typed-one-since\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plain English is all Copilot needs to build a formula<br \/>\nThe sidebar turns a sentence into a working column<\/li>\n<li>I used to dodge the nested formulas<br \/>\nLayered IFs, lookups, and date math in a single prompt<\/li>\n<li>The new COPILOT function puts AI right inside a cell<br \/>\nIt spills results like SORT, but takes natural language as input<\/li>\n<li>Copilot explains formulas I didn&#8217;t write and can&#8217;t read<br \/>\nInherited spreadsheets stop being a black box<\/li>\n<li>Typing formulas is starting to feel optional<br \/>\nBut I still read everything Copilot hands back<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"simple-translate\" class=\"simple-translate-system-theme\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"simple-translate-button isShow\" style=\"background-image: url('moz-extension:\/\/4fe9cde6-e923-4f4e-95a2-0682052323f6\/icons\/512.png'); height: 22px; width: 22px; top: 5px; left: -14px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"simple-translate-panel \" style=\"width: 300px; height: 200px; top: 0px; left: 0px; font-size: 13px;\">\n<div class=\"simple-translate-result-wrapper\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"simple-translate-move\" draggable=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"simple-translate-result-contents\">\n<p class=\"simple-translate-result\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p class=\"simple-translate-candidate\" dir=\"auto\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excel can now write its own formulas, and I haven&#8217;t typed one since https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/excel-can-write-own-formulas-havent-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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,375,10],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-64715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel","category-excel-office-2010","category-office","tag-excel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 16:25:10","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}