I've written many times about the many benefits of formatting your data as a structured table in Microsoft Excel. However, despite this, there's one major issue that continues to throw a spanner ...

Here's how to create a pivot table in Excel to slice and dice your data, letting you perform in-depth analyses and spot important trends.

Indeed, before this update, whenever you wanted to use Copilot to make a change to a table or unstructured dataset in Microsoft Excel, you would first need to select a cell in the relevant range.

You can enter data into a Microsoft Excel sheet or run a bit of M code in Microsoft Excel Power Query when you need to create a table.

Microsoft has announced a beta version of Excel that allows pivot tables to automatically update themselves when data is changed.