Ask and chat in Excel

Ask your Minds and pull data in, attach files and images, cite cells, search the web, use skills, connectors and memory, and manage chats.

• Ask about data and pull it into Excel

  Ask a business question from Excel, put a Mind's result or a query's result into a sheet with its source noted, and refresh pulled data later.

• Choosing the Mind

  Pick which Mind Oda asks, search the Mind list, or let Oda choose the right Mind for each question.

• Selection, citations and questions

  Send your selection with a message, jump to the cells Oda cites in its answers, answer the questions Oda asks and follow its plan in the Steps panel.

• Attach files in Excel

  Attach PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, CSV and image files to a message in Oda in Excel, see the limits and where files are kept, and insert sheets from a workbook.

• Images and pictures in Excel

  Attach images to a message in Oda in Excel, let Oda look at pictures of your charts, ranges and shapes, and see which models read images.

• Search the web and read pages in Excel

  Let Oda in Excel search the web and read pages for public figures, see which links it reads without asking, and how it notes where each figure came from.

• Skills in Excel

  Run DataMind's built-in finance skills and your company's skills in Oda in Excel with the / menu, and turn each skill on or off in Settings.

• Connectors in Excel

  Use the services your company connected for Oda in Excel: sign in, enter your own values, turn connectors on or off, and approve what Oda sends to them.

• Memory and instructions in Excel

  Let Oda in Excel keep short notes and your standing instructions on this computer, see and undo each change it makes, and know when it asks first and what each message carries.

• Chats and history in Excel

  Keep up to 50 chats per workbook, reopen your most recent one with the file, find, rename and delete chats in History, and copy or download a chat as Markdown.

• Rate, copy and report answers in Excel

  Copy an answer of Oda in Excel, rate it with Good answer or Not helpful, report a harmful or wrong answer, and see exactly what each one sends to your company's DataMind workspace.