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Shipped 2026-10-15 · Organization Until now, a .csv or .xlsx in Bower was a file Bower could read. It’s now a spreadsheet you work in: plate maps, sample manifests and instrument exports stay next to the notes and protocols they belong to, and you no longer round-trip through Excel to change a value.

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What’s new

  • A spreadsheet in your workspace. Choose Create (+) > Spreadsheet to start one from scratch or import a .csv or .xlsx. A spreadsheet file you upload or attach in Bower Chat becomes a spreadsheet too, and an existing attachment has Convert to spreadsheet.
  • The tools you expect. Formulas, several sheets, sorting and filtering, charts, pivot tables and images. Changes save as you go.
  • Edit together. Everyone with edit access works in the same workbook at once. Version history shows who changed what, and any version can be restored.
  • Ask Bower, with sources. Bower reads live values, including formula results, and names the sheet and range behind each answer. Select cells and ask about “these”.
  • Bower makes the change. Ask it to fill in values, add a row by sample ID, format cells, sort, filter or add a chart. Each change shows on a Spreadsheet updated card with an Undo button.
  • Take it back out. Export the whole workbook as Excel, or one sheet as CSV.

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Notes

  • Workspaces in Restricted mode don’t have native spreadsheets; their .csv and .xlsx files stay attachments.
  • Live agent mode and connected AI apps can read spreadsheets but not change them.