Through Microsoft Translate Services, Excel can translate from one language to another (the TRANSLATE function) and detect another language already in a workbook (the DETECTLANGUAGE function).

Microsoft recently announced exciting updates for Microsoft 365 Insider users. On June 28, the company invited users to test two new functions in Excel: TRANSLATE and DETECTLANGUAGE.

Here’s how to translate text from one language to another in Outlook, Word, and Excel — and how to transform spoken words into real-time captions in another language with PowerPoint.

Discover the new Excel TRANSLATE & DETECTLANGUAGE functions, enhancing global communication directly in your spreadsheets.