The AI workspace for your spreadsheets

Spreadsheets hold some of the most important data in any organisation, and some of the hardest to find. Financial models, budgets, pricing analyses, project trackers, competitive comparisons, client data, inventory sheets, and forecasts. Each one is a dense package of numbers, formulas, and labels that makes sense to the person who built it and is practically invisible to everyone else. Your file system knows you have a spreadsheet called "Q3_model_v2.xlsx." It doesn't know what's in it. When you need the revenue projection from last quarter's financial model, or the pricing comparison you built for a specific client, you're opening files one at a time until you find the right tab of the right sheet of the right version. The data was meticulously assembled. Finding it later is anything but.

Fabric reads every spreadsheet you save, understands the data inside, and makes it searchable by meaning alongside everything else in your workspace. Ask the AI questions about your spreadsheet data. Connect the numbers to the notes, meetings, and documents that give them context.

Search inside every spreadsheet by meaning

Most tools treat spreadsheets as opaque files. Fabric's AI search reads the content of every spreadsheet, including cell values, labels, sheet names, and structure, and searches by meaning. Ask "the revenue forecast for the Southeast Asian market" or "the pricing comparison we did for the enterprise deal" and find the right sheet across your entire library, without remembering the filename, the tab name, or when it was created.

This is especially useful when spreadsheets accumulate over months and years. The budget you built last fiscal year, the data analysis from a past project, the competitive pricing sheet from three quarters ago, all findable by describing the data they contain.

Ask the AI about your data

The AI assistant reads your spreadsheets and answers questions about them. Ask "what's the total contract value in the Q3 pipeline sheet" or "which product line had the highest margin in last year's model" and get an answer drawn from the data, with a reference to the source file.

For more complex questions, the assistant can compare data across multiple spreadsheets, summarise the key figures from a financial model, or pull together data points from several sheets that address the same question. It works from your actual data rather than requiring you to open each file and navigate to the right cell.

This is particularly valuable when you're preparing for a meeting and need to pull numbers from several sources, or when a stakeholder asks a question that spans multiple documents.

Connected to the context around the numbers

A spreadsheet rarely tells the full story on its own. The financial model makes more sense alongside the meeting notes where the assumptions were discussed. The pricing analysis connects to the competitive research that informed it. The budget relates to the strategy document that set the priorities.

In Fabric, a spreadsheet lives alongside your notes, meeting transcripts, PDFs, documents, emails, and every other file type. When you search, results come from across everything. The financial model, the meeting where the assumptions were debated, the email thread about revisions, and the strategy doc that preceded it are all findable together.

The explorer surfaces connections between spreadsheets and other material in your workspace. A budget spreadsheet connects to the project documentation it supports. A pricing model connects to the competitive research that shaped it.

Annotate spreadsheets with context

The thinking behind a spreadsheet matters as much as the numbers in it. Why was this assumption used? What does this row represent? Where did this data come from?

Annotations let you add comments and context directly on spreadsheets. Mark a key cell with the source of the data. Note an assumption that needs revisiting. Flag a figure that looks anomalous. The annotations are searchable, so a note you attached to a cell six months ago is findable by what it says.

Share with protection and tracking

Financial data is sensitive. Sharing a spreadsheet by email attachment means losing control of it the moment you send it.

Publish any spreadsheet with password protection and link analytics. Share a financial model with an investor and see when they've reviewed it. Send a pricing sheet to a client with controlled access. Update the spreadsheet in Fabric and the link serves the current version without re-sending.

For investor sharing and due diligence, the data room workflow gives you tracked, password-protected access across a full set of documents.

Capture spreadsheets from anywhere

Spreadsheets arrive from email attachments, shared drives, client portals, and finance tools. Forward email attachments to email-to-note and the spreadsheet joins your workspace. Pull in existing files from Google Drive or Dropbox. Sync a desktop folder via desktop file sync.

Smart organization automatically tags and categorises spreadsheets as you add them. Financial models, project trackers, and data analyses are grouped without manual filing.

Who uses Fabric for spreadsheets

Spreadsheets run through every part of business. Founders and startups manage financial models, budgets, and metrics. Investors review models and cap tables across deals. Sales professionals track pipelines and pricing. Consultants and consultancies build financial analyses and client deliverables. Product managers maintain roadmaps and prioritisation matrices. Freelancers track invoicing and project budgets. Anyone managing household budgets, tax records, and financial documents for life admin.

For data-heavy research and analysis, see the guides to research workflow and how to actually do research.

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FAQs

Can Fabric search inside spreadsheets by meaning?

Yes. AI search reads cell values, labels, sheet names, and structure, and searches by meaning. Describe the data you're looking for and find the right sheet across your library.

Can the AI answer questions about my spreadsheet data?

Yes. The AI assistant reads your spreadsheets and answers questions about the data inside. Ask about totals, comparisons, specific figures, or trends, and get answers with references to the source files.

Can the AI compare data across multiple spreadsheets?

Yes. Add spreadsheets to a space and the assistant can synthesise across them. Ask a question that spans multiple files and get an answer drawing from the full set.

Can I annotate spreadsheets?

Yes. Annotations let you add searchable comments and context to spreadsheets. Mark assumptions, flag anomalies, or note data sources directly on the file.

Can I share a spreadsheet securely?

Yes. Publish with password protection and link analytics. Control access and see when the recipient has viewed the file. Update the spreadsheet and the link reflects the change.

Can I search across spreadsheets and other file types together?

Yes. Search works across spreadsheets, Word documents, PDFs, notes, images, audio transcripts, and every other file type. The financial model and the meeting where it was discussed are findable in the same search.

Can I import spreadsheets from Google Drive or Dropbox?

Yes. Fabric connects to Google Drive, Dropbox, and supports desktop file sync.

Can I forward spreadsheet attachments from email?

Yes. Forward any email with a spreadsheet attachment to email-to-note and the file joins your library.

Does Fabric support .xlsx and .csv files?

Yes. Fabric handles .xlsx, .xls, and .csv files. All are searchable by content.

Are my financial spreadsheets private?

Yes. Your content is encrypted and only visible to you unless you choose to share it. Fabric uses AES-256 encryption and is CASA Tier 2 compliant.

How is this different from storing spreadsheets in Google Drive?

Google Drive stores files and offers basic search. Fabric reads the data inside your spreadsheets and searches by meaning, connects them to your notes, meetings, and documents, and gives you an AI that answers questions across your data. The difference is between storing spreadsheets and being able to query the knowledge inside them.