Overview
Although artificial intelligence may seem like it is suddenly permeating every aspect of our daily lives, AI has actually been a part of Excel for over a decade. In this presentation, author and Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, will walk you through various AI-powered features in Excel, including Flash Fill, Analyze Data, Power Query's Column From Example, and tools for extracting data from pictures and PDF documents, among others. Of course, no discussion of AI would be complete without exploring ChatGPT, so David will also demonstrate how to write and deconstruct formulas, as well as automate repetitive tasks, even with minimal knowledge of Excel's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language.
David is the author of Microsoft Excel 365 for Dummies and Exploring Microsoft Excel’s Hidden Treasures and has written or co-authored six other books. He demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in Excel for Microsoft 365. Throughout the presentation and in his detailed handouts, he highlights any differences in Excel 2021, 2019, or 2016. The handouts also include an Excel workbook containing most of the examples used in his demonstrations.
Excel for Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based product that receives periodic feature updates, while perpetually licensed versions—identified by their year numbers—do not receive feature updates.
Why Should You Attend
Professionals seeking to leverage artificial intelligence with regard to spreadsheets.
Areas Covered
• Understanding the nuance of editing dynamic array-based formulas in Excel 2021 and Microsoft 365.
• Integrating data on web pages into your workbooks and creating automatic links.
• Installing the free Excel Labs Add-In which enables API access to ChatGPT.
• Explore how to use the free version of the Microsoft Copilot AI tool.
• Extracting data from pictures by way of the From Picture command.
• Separating first/last names into two columns without using formulas or retyping.
• Automating repetitive tasks in Excel by having ChatGPT write Visual Basic for Applications programming code.
• Learning how the Table feature empowers you to improve the integrity of Excel spreadsheets.
• Using the Recommended Charts feature to create suitable charts from data with a couple of mouse clicks.
• Using ChatGPT to create formulas in Excel based upon a written description of the desired calculation.
• Exploring the requirements and constraints of Microsoft Copilot in Excel.
• State the functionality that the Flash Fill feature offers.
• Describe how to utilize the Analyze Data feature in Excel to gain insights and identify trends within a worksheet.
• Recognize a dynamic array function from a list of worksheet functions.
• Querying ChatCPT directly from within Excel by way of the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function in Excel for Microsoft 365.
