What's new in SheetAI

Dates in uploaded Excel files stay real dates. They used to come in as text, so a formula like =A2+30, sorting by date, and charts over dates did not work on them. Sheets you opened before today keep their text dates; open the original file again to get real ones.

Suggested follow-ups no longer offer work that is already done. After SheetAI double-checked its own work, the suggestions could propose the very steps it had just finished.

See what a web search found. When SheetAI looks something up, the step shows the search, the findings, and links to the pages they came from, so you can check a figure at its source. This works on the website and in the Excel and Google Sheets add-ins.

In the Excel and Google Sheets add-ins, a web lookup now reads "Searching the web" while it runs and "Searched the web" when it is done, like every other step.

AI formulas in Excel. Type =SHEETAI.AI_ASK("your question") in a cell, or summarize, translate, classify, extract, reformat, tag, score sentiment, fill a range, generate a list, write a formula or explain one, and fill it down a column. Settings in the SheetAI pane lists all twelve and has a builder that writes the formula for you. If you added SheetAI to Excel before today, download the file again and add it once more to get them.

Save what SheetAI just did as a skill. After a job turns out the way you like, say "save this as a skill" and SheetAI writes the steps down as your own command, ready to run on your next sheet of the same kind. You can also import a skill file made for other AI tools, or download your skills to keep or share, in Settings → Skills.

Updates no longer interrupt you. SheetAI now waits until no answer is being written before it updates, so a reply is not cut off halfway. If a connection ever does drop mid-answer, the chat says so and picks up where it stopped, and an open tab or the Excel pane lets you know when a new version is ready.

The assistant keeps track of your tabs. It sees them by their real names, knows when one was renamed, deleted or duplicated, and reads the new order after a sort or after rows were moved. Duplicating a tab now works.

Opening files. A file you open goes into its own tab when the current tab already has data, row heights from Excel files are kept, and a failed upload shows an error instead of an empty workbook.

The SheetAI pane could open as a blank white panel in Excel. It now starts reliably, and if it ever cannot start it says so instead of showing nothing.

Opening the details of a step no longer jumps the chat to the bottom, and you can scroll up to read earlier steps while the assistant is still working.

Your saved work is protected. A workbook that failed to load could open as a blank sheet and then be saved over the real one. Loading now retries, and a blank page can never replace a saved workbook.

Find and replace leaves the rest alone. It changes only the cells that match: formulas stay formulas, numbers stay numbers, and pattern replacements that reuse part of the match now work.

The Excel add-in. Open SheetAI from the Home tab and ask in plain language: it reads your sheets, writes values and formulas, builds tables and charts, formats, sorts and filters, right in your workbook. It uses your SheetAI account and credits.

Questions while it works. When a choice would change the result (which currency, which layout, which period), the assistant pauses and asks, with its recommended option first and an Other box for your own answer. Pick one and it continues the same reply with your answer, without starting over. Skip it and the assistant goes with its recommendation and tells you so.

Suggested follow-ups. Each reply ends with three next steps written for your sheet; click one to send it. The list is open by default and can be collapsed, and you can turn suggestions off in Settings → Permissions.

You can follow along while the assistant works. Before each set of changes it writes a short line saying what it is about to do, or what it just found, instead of staying silent until the end.

Dropdown lists the assistant adds now appear on your sheet, with the arrow in each cell and the list of choices ready to pick from. Before, it could report a dropdown as added when none showed up.

Connect apps to SheetAI from Settings → Connectors. A curated directory offers one-click sign-in for Notion, Stripe, Airtable, Linear, Jira and Confluence, monday.com, Supabase and PayPal (with GitHub and Zapier by API key), and any other MCP server can be added by URL. Once connected, the assistant can read from those apps and land the data on your sheet.

Use SheetAI from other AI apps. Add SheetAI as a connector in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code or any MCP-compatible tool, sign in, and it can list your spreadsheets, read and query cells, write rows and create sheets. Personal access tokens cover tools that cannot sign in, and you can see and revoke every app with access from Settings → Connectors.

Slash commands and skills. Type / to run a skill such as /analyze, /clean, /pivot, /chart, /dashboard, /formulas, /validate or /forecast, or any prompt saved in your library. The assistant knows the list too and applies the right skill on its own when your request matches. Settings → Skills shows them all, lets you switch built-ins off, and lets you write your own.

@ mentions. Type @ to point at a tab, a connected app, or an item inside that app; the assistant treats it as the subject of your request.

The Google Sheets add-on gets the same connectors, slash commands and @ mentions, so apps you connected on the web are available inside Sheets.

You can see skills at work. When you run a skill or the assistant picks one itself, the reply shows a "Skill loaded" card with the command and a View steps toggle, and your own message shows the command as a pill.

When a request needs an app you have not connected, the assistant now puts that app in front of you: a card with its icon, what connecting it unlocks and a Connect button that starts the sign-in on the spot. Apps outside the directory get a shortcut to add any MCP server by URL.

A better experience on phones. The workspace header now fits a small screen: the toolbar collapses to icons, and export, print and sharing live in a dropdown that never gets cut off at the edge. Marketing pages open their menu in a full-width drawer built for touch.

My Sheets shows which sheets are shared and with how many people, and a badge opens the Share dialog directly. Public links gained Export and Print. Opening the workspace as a guest always starts from a clean, empty sheet.

A cleaner composer. The message box is one card with the attach, skills and connectors buttons in a row beneath the text, and every setting now sits under it in plain view: Act / Ask / Plan, Manual / Auto-accept, and the thinking level from Off to Max. No more drop-ups to open; one click switches any of them.

The / menu got tabs: All, Skills, Commands and Prompts, with a count on each. Every row shows the command as a pill, what kind of thing it is, where it comes from and what it does. Tab cycles the tabs from the keyboard.

Business teams share a monthly credit pool. Owners can set individual monthly limits, while personal credits and subscriptions stay separate.

Invite colleagues by email or with a secure link, choose member or admin access, suspend or remove people, and see recent team activity. Owners control the team; admins can manage regular members.

Owners can assign their sheets to teammates with view, comment or edit access. Assigned sheets appear in Shared with me, and your ownership and separate shares remain unchanged.

Select any cell SheetAI wrote and a small panel shows what it held before, what it holds now, the formula and its current result, why it was changed, and the request that led to it. Undo that single cell, or every cell from the same step, from right there.

Each reply that changed the sheet now lists what it changed: which ranges, how many cells, how many are formulas. Click a range to jump to it, even on another tab; expand a step to see every cell before and after; undo or redo per step or per cell.

Changed ranges are outlined in the sheet while you review them, and the "Keep these changes?" prompt tells you exactly how many cells and formulas it covers, and in which ranges, instead of asking you to take it on trust.

Formulas SheetAI writes are checked against their live result, so a formula that errors is flagged in red beside the change rather than left for you to find.

You can send a message while a task is running. It waits just above the message box and SheetAI picks it up at its next step, without losing any of the work it has already done - and it can correct work that is already on the sheet, not only the part still to come.

A plan you approved no longer reappears once the work is finished, where accepting it again would repeat the whole task.

SheetAI can propose a plan partway through a task. Approve it, edit it, or tell it to skip the plan and get on with the work.

A small gauge beside your credit balance appears when a task is getting long enough to cost noticeably more, so a big job cannot surprise you at the end.

The Google Sheets sidebar handles plan proposals the same way the web app does, and approving one continues the task rather than starting it again.

Approving a plan continues the task you were already in, with everything it had worked out so far, rather than beginning again from scratch.

SheetAI reviews what it wrote against what you asked before telling you a task is done.

Attached documents are read in full wherever they fit, so nothing relevant to your question is missed.

Long, multi-step jobs run to completion instead of stopping partway with a summary of what was coming next.

Charts you ask for in the sidebar are inserted as real Google Sheets charts.

Everything the web app can do to a spreadsheet now works in the sidebar too.

Attachments in the sidebar.

Settings tabs reordered so the ones people open most are nearer the top.

Fixed a case where a task could sit waiting for an approval it was never going to ask you for.

Four new templates, bringing the library to twenty ready-made workbooks - budgets, invoices, trackers and more.

Chats are named after what you asked for, so your history reads as a list of jobs rather than a column of timestamps.

Spreadsheets you never got round to naming are given a sensible name from what is in them. There is a setting if you would rather they were left alone.

The sixteen existing templates were rebuilt, each with its own page explaining what it is for and what to change first.

Fixed a group of questions about your data that had been failing to run.

Every setting in the Google Sheets add-on saves the moment you change it, and the model and thinking level you pick apply immediately.

PDF export and print keep your formatting - fills, borders, number formats and column widths - instead of reducing the sheet to a plain table of values.

SheetAI keeps track of what a task is costing as it works and stays economical, so a long job no longer runs up a bill you did not expect.