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Excel Canvas: Create Stunning Dynamic Dashboards with Copilot

By Jeff Lenning | November 4, 2026 |

Excel Canvas is a powerful new feature that lets us create stunning, interactive dashboards straight inside our workbook. Using Copilot, we simply describe what we want, and Excel generates a polished HTML-based canvas sheet that is dynamically linked to our source data. No manual chart building, no layout wrestling. In this tutorial, we walk through…