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ChatGPT Lands Inside Excel and Google Sheets

OpenAI's new sidebar add-on builds and updates Excel and Google Sheets workbooks from natural-language prompts — formulas, data cleaning, and scenario analysis included. It runs on GPT-5.5.

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Editorial
May 11, 2026

OpenAI has released a ChatGPT sidebar for Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets that turns natural-language prompts into live spreadsheet operations.

The add-on can build entire workbooks from a brief, generate and explain formulas, clean messy data (deduping, parsing dates, standardizing values), and run scenario and sensitivity analyses against existing models.

Under the hood it runs on GPT-5.5, OpenAI's newest reasoning model. Enterprise customers get the integration first, with rollout to Plus and Team subscribers planned over the coming weeks.

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Editorial
May 11, 2026 · 4 min read
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