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    • Time: 10 hours
    • CEUs: 1.0
    • Free Certificate

    Welcome to Enhancing Spreadsheets with AI, a course designed to show you how generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude can transform how you work with spreadsheets.

    In this course, you'll discover how to leverage generative AI to automate repetitive tasks, generate complex formulas, clean and transform messy data, and perform powerful data analysis using clear, natural language instructions. Whether you're building basic formulas or automating multi-step workflows, generative AI can make your Excel work faster, smarter, and more efficient.

    You'll start by learning how AI fits into the modern spreadsheet ecosystem, exploring built-in AI features, and the essentials of prompt engineering to get accurate and relevant results. Importantly, we'll also cover the security, privacy, and ethical implications of using AI in Excel. As these tools often interact with sensitive business data, you'll learn best practices for responsible use, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations, protecting confidentiality, and using AI in a trustworthy and transparent manner. As you progress, you'll master how to use AI to generate everything from basic calculations to advanced conditional logic and learn how to easily debug and explain complex formulas. We'll also dive into data cleaning and analysis, where you'll use AI to reformat inconsistent entries, handle missing values, and summarize large datasets into meaningful insights and visualizations. Then, you'll explore how to use AI for task automation, including writing macros and VBA code, so you can automate tasks, even if you have no coding experience. Throughout the course, you'll get hands-on experience with popular generative AI tools, learning how to apply them to complete tasks in Excel.

    By the end of this course, you'll have the skills to combine spreadsheet expertise with generative AI tools, empowering you to make data-driven decisions faster, automate smarter, and become a highly productive Excel user in the age of intelligent automation.