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How analyzing data with Excel’s Copilot helps FP&A

How analyzing data with Excel’s Copilot helps FP&A

From the course: Copilot in Excel: AI-Powered Financial Planning & Analysis

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How analyzing data with Excel’s Copilot helps FP&A

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- [Narrator] Did you know that Excel offers powerful AI-driven tools beyond Copilot? Yes, there are add-ins, and there's also a hidden gem named Analyze Data. While Copilot acts a bit like a chatbot or AI assistant, Analyze Data provides deeper insights. In FP&A and corporate finance, we're often dealing with vast amounts of data, so identifying meaningful patterns and takeaways can be very helpful. When you click on the icon for Analyze Data, Excel will use its built-in intelligence to tell you more about what it's seeing. Here are some examples. Summaries and trends. Analyze Data can identify patterns or trends in your data. These might not be immediately obvious to you from a simple glance at the data, so being able to create quick, accurate summaries may be both illustrative and insightful. Automatic charts and pivot tables. Depending on what your data looks like and how it's shaped, Excel can recommend charts or pivot tables that make it easier to visualize the information. While…

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