Enhancing Excel with Generative AI Tools
58mIntermediate2025-02-21
Authors
George Mount
Course details
Unlock the potential of Microsoft Excel with cutting-edge, free generative AI tools. Follow along with Excel MVP George Mount in this course designed for intermediate Excel users. George guides you through how to enhance Excel’s data-crunching capabilities with powerful AI tools both inside and outside of the spreadsheet editor. George steps through how to prepare data with Power Query and Markdown, helpful prompts to use to create data visualizations, tips for troubleshooting and debugging Excel formulas, and more.
Learning objectives
Identify a variety of free generative AI tools inside and outside of Excel that can be useful for spreadsheet tasks.
Explore various external generative AI tools and their relative strengths and weaknesses for assisting with Excel tasks.
Optimize data organization for AI use by understanding how AI processes and interprets data analysis tasks.
Practice synthetic data generation techniques.
Create AI prompts that effectively generate detailed data visualizations, enhancing presentations and reports with clearer data representations.
Learning objectives
Identify a variety of free generative AI tools inside and outside of Excel that can be useful for spreadsheet tasks.
Explore various external generative AI tools and their relative strengths and weaknesses for assisting with Excel tasks.
Optimize data organization for AI use by understanding how AI processes and interprets data analysis tasks.
Practice synthetic data generation techniques.
Create AI prompts that effectively generate detailed data visualizations, enhancing presentations and reports with clearer data representations.
Skills covered
Artificial Intelligence for DesignChatGPTOpenAISpreadsheetsMicrosoft ExcelAI Productivity ToolsVideoArtificial Intelligence for BusinessPhotographyGraphic DesignAnimation and IllustrationBusiness Analysis and StrategyBusiness Software and ToolsMicrosoftOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Revolutionize data analysis with Excel plus generative AI
- 02 - What to know before starting this course
1. Preparing Data for AI with Power Query and Markdown
- 03 - Understand how AI processes data
- 04 - Reshape datasets for AI with Power Query
- 05 - Structure data inputs with Markdown
- 06 - Challenge - Data preparation for AI
- 07 - Solution - Data preparation for AI
2. Analyzing Data with Generative AI
- 08 - Select AI tools for data analysis
- 09 - Frame analytics problems with AI
- 10 - Create effective AI prompts for data visualization
- 11 - Generate synthetic datasets with AI
- 12 - Challenge - Plan an analytics project with AI assistance
- 13 - Solution - Plan an analytics project with AI assistance
3. Advanced AI Apps and Troubleshooting
- 14 - Debug complex Excel formulas with AI
- 15 - Integrate AI into Excel for enhanced analysis
- 16 - Challenge - Troubleshooting and integration
- 17 - Solution - Troubleshooting and integration
Conclusion
- 18 - Next steps with generative AI for Excel