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The latest on AI at work: November 2024

For Microsoft and our customers, work is changing at the speed of AI. To help you stay ahead, we’ll share monthly highlights of new Microsoft Copilot innovations, plus the latest from our customers on how they’re getting the most value from Copilot.

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Streamline collaboration with the new chat and channels experience in Microsoft Teams

Working together can turn great ideas into reality and bring people together as a team. We’ve been paying attention to our customers’ evolving needs in the AI-powered workplace, which require faster, simpler, and smarter solutions to achieve more.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents

We are introducing Wave 2 of Microsoft 365 Copilot innovation, with three key updates. From enterprises to small businesses, they help Copilot get better every day. Nearly 1,000 customers have given us direct feedback on Copilot, and we’ve made more than 700 product updates based on that feedback.

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New agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot unlock business value

Microsoft Copilot is already helping individual employees boost productivity, creativity and time savings. With the announcements at Microsoft Build 2024, we’re delivering an entirely new set of capabilities that unlock Copilot’s ability to drive bottom-line business results for every organization.

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Microsoft and LinkedIn release the 2024 Work Trend Index on the state of AI at work

For our fourth annual Work Trend Index, out today, we partnered with LinkedIn for the first time on a joint report so we could provide a comprehensive view of how AI is not only reshaping work, but the labor market more broadly.

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Bringing Copilot to more customers worldwide—across life and work

Continuing our vision for Microsoft Copilot to bring the power of generative AI to everyone across work and life, we’re expanding availability and purchase options for individuals and organizations and bringing new value to Copilot Pro subscribers.

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Introducing Microsoft Copilot for Finance: Transform finance with next-generation AI in Microsoft 365

We’re announcing the public preview of Microsoft Copilot for Finance, a game-changer for finance professionals and the newest role-based extension of Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft Copilot for Finance is a momentous leap forward, specifically crafted to revolutionize the daily grind of well-known financial processes.

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Expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to businesses of all sizes

We are updating our Microsoft Copilot product line-up with a new Copilot Pro subscription for individuals; expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 availability to small and medium-sized businesses; and announcing no seat minimum for commercial plans.

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Microsoft Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service are now generally available

Microsoft is dedicated to helping organizations transform the way people work using secure, enterprise-grade AI capabilities, no matter which business applications teams depend on. Starting today, you can seamlessly integrate role-specific Copilot capabilities into Microsoft 365 applications and popular customer relationship management (CRM) and contact center systems for sales and customer service professionals.

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Published January 16, 2009

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Yammer Adds a Flurry of New and Enhanced Features

Enhanced Profiles We've redesigned profiles! They're clean and uncluttered. Now you'll be able to see coworkers' essential details at a glance, along with links to the groups they've joined and the files, images, and links they've posted. We've added profile photos for groups, so you'll be able distinguish them visually. Every group message now includes…

Published January 16, 2009

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Printing Envelopes Using Excel and Word

Excel allows you to define names that apply to a range of cells in the worksheet. When a name is defined for a Table in a worksheet, the name will update automatically as the table is resized to add or remove data.

Published September 30, 2008

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Building a Basic, Understandable Sudoku Solver Using Excel Iterative Calculation – Part 1/2

Today’s author, Charlie Ellis, a Program Manager on the Excel team, shares a spreadsheet he built in Excel for solving Sudoku puzzles. The spreadsheet can be found in the attachments at the bottom of this post. For those of you who don’t already know, Sudoku is a type of logic puzzle (that I was completely

Published April 30, 2008

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Append Multiple Text Files into a Worksheet without Code

Today’s author: Mark Gillis, an Excel and SharePoint writer, who’s been through six versions of Office, survived to tell the tale, and picked up a thing or two along the way. Excel doesn’t have an easy way to append multiple text files into one worksheet through the user interface. From time to time I hear

Published April 10, 2008

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Understanding Floating Point Precision, aka “Why does Excel Give Me Seemingly Wrong Answers?”

Have you ever encountered a similar situation where your spreadsheet does not give you the result you were expecting for a seemingly simple calculation? Well the scenario you are facing may be due to floating point precision.

Published March 6, 2008

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Unusual (but cool!) Uses of Excel

Many of you who have been using Excel for a long time have most likely seen some of the creative, interesting, and rather unusual uses of Excel that people have conjured up. I’m talking about things like writing the Pac-Man game completely in Excel, stuff you wouldn’t expect to see in a critical business application like Excel,

Published February 21, 2007

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Data Mining In Excel

One of the technologies available in SQL Server Analysis Services is data mining. We have just released a set of add-ins for Excel (“The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007”) that allow users to take advantage of SQL Server 2005 predictive analytics in Office Excel 2007. The download includes two components for

Published June 19, 2006

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2007 Microsoft Office System Primary Interop Assemblies

Today we have the first of two guest posts from Patrick Smith, a program manager on the Office Programmability team. Writing managed code against the 2007 Microsoft Office System products requires the use of an interop assembly. Just as we did with Microsoft Office System 2003, we are providing primary interop assemblies with the new