Telemetry for Open in Excel
Telemetry for Open in Excel
A telemetry signal records who used Open in Excel and when.
Area: Admin and platform. Status: GA. Developer relevance: medium. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
Quotes
- 12:05 "the best fraud example I can come up with is a disgruntled employee that opens the customer list or the vendor lists" - Gives the reason for the new Open in Excel telemetry.
Caveats mentioned
- Tag number as heard from captions (RT 0056)
Prerequisites mentioned
- Telemetry set up for the environment
Documented features match
- Monitor usage of Open in Excel with telemetry - high confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573317. Same
Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.
Tags: telemetry, security, excel, admin
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.