By early 2026, summarizing a 10,000-row Excel table has moved from a 30-minute manual task to a 30-second conversational one.

AI has transformed this "grunt work" into a high-level orchestration task. By leveraging autonomous agents and semantic recognition, you can now fix inconsistent naming, repair broken dates, and handle missing values with simple natural language commands.

As Excel moves into 2026, the reliance on traditional keyboard shortcuts for manual formatting is being replaced by "AI Command Shortcuts.