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.
Troubleshooting
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Troubleshooting posts
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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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Add a Compose action before anything complex: the cheapest debugging habit in Power Automate
Your flow failed on step nine and the error is about a property that doesn't exist. A Compose action tells you what the value actually was, in about thirty seconds.
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Power Automate from Scratch, Part 3: Error handling and retry policies, failing loudly vs failing silently for three weeks
A flow that fails loudly is doing its job. The mechanism behind Configure run after, what a retry policy actually retries, and why bolting on error handling can make a real failure invisible.
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The 'when an item is modified' trigger has a setting that stops it firing twice
One setting on the trigger stops a flow from running twice every time someone edits a SharePoint item.
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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.