From the course: Microsoft Copilot for Excel
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Asking for support
From the course: Microsoft Copilot for Excel
Asking for support
- [Instructor] Now that we've covered Copilot's basic features, we're going to go a bit off-script for this final section of the course. And that's because beyond Copilot's basic features, you can also use it to ask for support, just like you would with a regular LLM like ChatGPT. Now, we're going to cover some more advanced scenarios in the demos, but a good example is formula troubleshooting. So here we've got a formula that's trying to extract the username from the email, and we're getting a value error. So what you can do is copy the formula and ask Copilot to help fix it. It'll then tell you what's wrong, give you the correct version, and you can't insert it like we did before, since this is outside the main features. But what you can do is copy the formula and then paste it back in. And that's really what we'll be doing for the rest of these examples. We're going to take advantage of the fact that Copilot can read the data in our Excel workbook. We're going to ask for support in…
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