Build a Five-Minute Audit of What Survived the Copilot Cull
On 15 April 2026 the Copilot button vanished from Excel with no in-app notice. This is the dated six-row audit of which surfaces still answer you, which refuse, and which never could.
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Copilot agents and Power Automate flows are starting to have the same job description
Agents and flows look like two product categories. They are one automation with a dial on it, and the only real question is how much judgment you hand over, and when.
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A month of building flows: what Power Automate is actually for, and what it quietly isn't
Four weeks of approvals, retries, triggers and licensing traps. Every flow that worked did the same thing: it moved a decision, it never made one. The boundary, and how to test for it.
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Pin a Power Automate flow to your Teams sidebar so it's never three clicks away
You already know which flow you run every day. Three minutes of setup and it lives in your Teams sidebar instead of behind three clicks in a browser tab.
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The advanced Excel skill that finally got me noticed, and the one nobody ever noticed at all
Two skills, the same effort to learn, wildly different payoff. Automation deletes its own evidence, which is why 'just tell them' never works, and what to do instead.
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Power Automate from Scratch, Part 4: Premium connectors and licensing traps, where 'free' quietly stops being free
A flow that worked fine for ninety days is not a flow that is free. The tier belongs to the connector, the licence follows the owner, and the platform fails slowly on purpose.