by Waheed Burna | Oct 1, 2026 | Accounting & Finance, Reporting & Analytics
Most month-end closes don’t stall on the accounting. They stall on the writing, the chasing and the sorting: the variance commentary nobody wants to draft, the forty unmatched lines on the bank rec, the fifth email asking a department head for the same invoice....
by Waheed Burna | Sep 15, 2026 | Accounting & Finance, Reporting & Analytics
If you have =COPILOT() formulas in a workbook, the generated text in those cells is at risk. The function retires on September 14, 2026, and Microsoft has not said whether existing formulas will keep returning values or start failing. This guide is the practical...
by Waheed Burna | Sep 14, 2026 | Accounting & Finance, Reporting & Analytics
Microsoft’s answer to the retirement of =COPILOT() is the Copilot side pane. The official line is that it “provides many of the same AI-powered capabilities, including summarizing text, classifying data, generating content, and retrieving information from...
by Waheed Burna | Sep 11, 2026 | Accounting & Finance, Reporting & Analytics
Microsoft is retiring the =COPILOT() function in Excel. The support documentation states it plainly: “Starting September 14, 2026, the COPILOT function will no longer be available.” Microsoft’s own support documentation. The date is not in dispute....
by Waheed Burna | Jun 3, 2026 | Accounting & Finance, Reporting & Analytics
You got =COPILOT() to show up in Excel. The formula bar autocompletes. The function runs. But now it is throwing errors during execution. Or worse — it is running and returning answers, except the answers are wrong. That is a different troubleshooting problem from...
