06/25/2026
If you use Excel with Microsoft 365 Copilot, a March 2026 upgrade may have just rescued a few hours of your week.
It’s called Work IQ, and it means Copilot no longer waits around for you to spoon-feed it spreadsheet context like an exhausted intern. Now it can pull from related emails, Teams chats, meetings, and files in your Microsoft tenant all on its own.
So instead of:
copying data from email, pasting it into Excel, then begging Copilot to make sense of it…
You can do things like:
▶️ Check a vendor invoice against the original quoted price
▶️ Update a forecast using yesterday’s meeting recap
▶️ Clean up the beautiful disaster a client called a spreadsheet
One important catch: Copilot only sees what the user already has access to. So if your SharePoint and OneDrive permissions are a mess, Copilot may become extremely helpful in all the wrong ways.
Great for productivity. Less great for accidental oversharing.