We think the question _GeorgeBailey_ posted is the right one, and the answer most spreadsheet users have been living without for too long. You know the drill: you write a formula that works perfectly for one row, then you spend the next ten minutes dragging, copying, and pasting it down a column. It is tedious, error-prone, and it treats your time as if it has no value. The real problem is not that the manual method exists, it is that for decades, that manual method was the only method. Our take is simple: that era should end.
What this means in practical terms is that you no longer have to be the human fill-handle. An AI-native spreadsheet does not wait for you to finish the first row before it understands what you are trying to do. It watches your pattern, recognizes the logic, and applies it across dozens or hundreds of rows in one action. You are not asking the tool to "help" you copy and paste faster. You are asking it to understand the intent behind the formula and execute it at scale. That shift matters because it changes your role from a manual operator to a decision-maker. Instead of spending energy on repetition, you spend it on validation, interpretation, and the next question you want to ask your data.
The hesitation we hear from users like _GeorgeBailey_ is not about capability, it is about trust. You have been trained by legacy tools to expect that complex tasks require manual intervention. But that training is outdated. The technology has moved past the point where you need to show it the same thing twice. An AI-powered action does not need you to repeat yourself. It learns from the first instance and extends the work intelligently, handling edge cases like relative references and conditional logic without you having to babysit the output. The practical result is that a task that used to take five minutes and a dozen clicks can now take one action and a single glance to confirm.
So here is the concrete point: if you are still copying a formula row by row, you are using the wrong tool for the work you actually want to do. The question is no longer whether the technology exists, it does. The question is whether you are ready to stop treating your spreadsheet like a typewriter and start treating it like a collaborator. _GeorgeBailey_ asked for a way to insert a formula for dozens of rows at once. The answer is yes, and it has been waiting for you. Go explore what that feels like.