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.
Copilot
// 13 postsTutorials, tips, and deep dives on Copilot — every post from bianca.codes tagged Copilot.
Copilot posts
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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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Nobody reads your Copilot-generated deck any harder than they read your old one
Making slides was tedious. Tedium was never the reason nobody read them. Generating the deck faster just means the nothing arrives sooner, in a better font.
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Copilot in Outlook: turning a forty-email thread into the three lines that matter
A forty-email thread compresses to four lines once you know what Copilot's thread summary actually does, and doesn't do.
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The pressure to look competent with Copilot when you're still figuring it out live
Six people watching your cursor, a tool you've barely opened, and a room that assumes you've already mastered it. The pressure to look fluent with Copilot is manufactured - here's what to do instead.
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Most 'Copilot doesn't work' complaints are a prompting problem wearing a product complaint's clothes
A four-word prompt and a disappointed face is not a product review. Where vague requests actually break, and how to tell a real Copilot failure from a thin question.
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Copilot didn't arrive as a feature, it arrived as an expectation
Copilot didn't spread through the office the normal way, it arrived pre-loaded with an expectation that you already knew how to use it.
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What your manager knows vs what your manager can observe
Two default-on Microsoft features shipped in June to help someone else watch how you work, not help you get more of it done. The difference between them matters.
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A week of actually using Copilot: what a beginner discovers (and what trips them up)
Seven days actually driving Copilot across Excel, Word and PowerPoint - the wins, the confidently wrong deck, and the habit that mattered more than any prompt.
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Copilot in Excel: the moment it clicks for a beginner
The first time a plain-English request turns into a real, inspectable Excel formula, the tool stops feeling abstract - and the habit that keeps it honest.
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One Copilot prompt that summarises a 20-tab workbook
The one Copilot prompt that turns twenty unlabelled tabs into a sheet-by-sheet summary, outliers included, in under a minute.
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Learn Python, or learn to drive Copilot? A beginner's honest fork in the road
Two tabs open, four spare hours a week, and everyone insisting the other tab is a waste of your time - here's the no-hype version of the beginner's fork.
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Stop reading Copilot hot takes and just open the thing
Most Copilot opinions come from people who've never clicked into it. Open the thing for an afternoon and form one that's actually yours.