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I recently received an inquiry about teaching a one-day intermediate Copilot class. It sounded interesting, but it also left me with a basic question: what would participants already know, and what would make the class intermediate?

I recently received an inquiry about teaching a one-day "intermediate Copilot" class. It got me thinking about what that word actua...

Excel now has another recorder, which is either good news for your recurring work or a sign that we need to start labeling the record buttons. Alongside the VBA macro recorder and the Office Scripts Action Recorder, Copilot has a skill recorder: demonstrate a workflow, explain what matters, and ask it to turn the process into a reusable skill.

My fi...

Once you have taught Copilot how you like an Excel task done, it is tempting to consider the job settled. You have saved the instructions as a skill, given it a name, and retired that enormous prompt you kept in a text file. A small victory for both productivity and your scroll wheel.

But some parts of the task need a little more than a written description. Perhaps ...

You finally have Copilot producing a useful Excel report, and then someone asks for a slightly different version: fewer columns for the manager, different headings for a client, but the same calculations underneath. A small change to the report can turn into another round of explaining how you want the work done.

A skill saves those recurring instructions. Adding a ...

COPILOT IN EXCEL · GET DATA SKILL

Build a cleanup process you can use again

If you keep handing Copilot the same monthly cleanup job, it may be time to ask it for something you can reuse. That's what caught my attention about the Get Data skill and its connection to Power Q...