Microsoft quietly integrates Excel into Bing Chat for quick data editing.

2023-11-07

Microsoft has not updated its official Bing blog for some time, announcing the latest developments in its Bing Chat chatbot. However, it appears that the company has quietly added a feature that could be very useful for those who want to use chatbots with Excel.

Bing Chat users can now have the chatbot create tables for them, which can then be imported and edited in the web version of Excel.

This new feature was first reported on X (formerly Twitter) last week, and we have independently confirmed his report. If you have Bing Chat enabled on your Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or Apple Safari web browser, you can have the chatbot create a table for you. For example, "Create a table comparing the sales of smartphones and laptops in the United States from 2015 to 2022."

Once Bing Chat has created the table, you should see an "Edit in Excel" icon in the top right corner. Clicking on it should take you to the web version of Excel, where you can import the table data from Bing Chat into an Excel spreadsheet.

Microsoft quietly acknowledged that this new feature is indeed live by replying to the X post, stating, "Bing Chat + Excel = the perfect combination."

Enterprises that have registered for Microsoft 365 Copilot can also use the new Copilot generative AI feature in Excel, although this feature is currently in public preview.