As PCMag's resident data journalist, I practically live in Microsoft Excel. I've learned that it's capable of far more than I ...
Yes, Copilot turns plain English into working formulas.
Excel will treat everything you write after that as plain text. Thus, 3/4 isn’t automatically turned into a fraction or decimal (0.75) or the date for “4-Mar”—‘3/4 renders it as “3/4” as desired.