Excel + AI Kickstart

The most useful hour you’ll spend in Excel this month

You already have an AI assistant a tab away. This short course shows you how to put it to work right next to your spreadsheet — briefing it in plain English, checking its work, and getting formulas, fixes, and clean data in seconds. Four short modules, about five minutes of reading each. You can finish in one sitting.

Who it’s for

• Anyone who works in spreadsheets and hasn’t yet paired them with AI
• People who freeze at formula errors or inherit tangled sheets they didn’t build
• Managers and analysts who want faster answers without learning to code
• Any AI chat works — ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot, free versions included

What you’ll be able to do

By the end, you’ll be able to:

• Get a working formula by describing what you want — no syntax required
• Understand any formula you inherit, and fix the errors Excel won’t explain
• Clean a messy list and summarize a table by describing the mess and the goal
• Prompt reliably with a simple pattern, and verify results so you can trust them

What’s inside

Four short modules:

• Module 1 — The mindset: AI as your Excel assistant
• Module 2 — Your first wins: get, understand, and fix formulas
• Module 3 — Cleaning & making sense of data (with a downloadable practice file)
• Module 4 — Prompt well, stay safe, go further

The full lesson-by-lesson outline is just below.