As PCMag's resident data journalist, I practically live in Microsoft Excel. I've learned that it's capable of far more than I ...

Microsoft has upgraded its 365 Copilot with new agentic abilities that can directly edit live documents in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, moving beyond its earlier role as a passive suggestion tool.

Whether you're taking data cells or a full-blown graphical chart, copy and paste it into the other program. Beware: This is a link-and-embed process—if you change the data in the spreadsheet, it will ...