Excel + AI: The Smart User's Guide to Faster, Easier Work with ChatGPT

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Mike Thomas

Speaker: Mike Thomas

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Date
27 January, 2026 (Tuesday)
Time
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Duration
60 Minutes

Overview

AI isn’t just a buzzword – it’s a game-changer for Excel users. In this hands-on session, you’ll discover how to combine the power of Excel with ChatGPT to boost your productivity, simplify complex tasks, and unlock new levels of efficiency. Whether you’re stuck writing tricky formulas, wrangling messy data, or building dashboards, ChatGPT can become your on-demand assistant.

We’ll explore how to use ChatGPT to speed up repetitive tasks, generate formulas and VBA scripts, troubleshoot issues, and even suggest smarter ways of working with your data. You’ll also learn real-world examples of how AI can support decision-making, automate tasks, and streamline reporting workflows inside Excel.

If you’ve ever wished Excel could “just do it for you,” this session will show you how to get closer than ever before, by combining human know-how with AI-powered support.

Area Covered

  • What ChatGPT is and how it works with Excel
  • Using AI to generate, explain, and troubleshoot formulas
  • Writing and fixing VBA code with ChatGPT’s help
  • Uploading Excel files to ChatGPT: the do’s, don’ts, and best practices
  • Using ChatGPT from inside Excel (including available integrations and add-ins)
  • Tips for getting better answers (and avoiding common pitfalls) when using ChatGPT

Why Should You Attend


Too many Excel users waste time googling formulas, guessing at syntax, or wrestling with repetitive tasks that should be automated. This session helps you move past those frustrations. You’ll learn practical ways to use ChatGPT as your personal co-pilot – someone who understands Excel, speaks plain English, and helps you solve problems faster. If you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels and start working smarter, this session is for you.

Who Will Benefit?


This session is ideal for intermediate to advanced Excel users who are curious about AI and want to get hands-on with practical tools. It’s especially useful for analysts, finance professionals, HR, project managers, and anyone who uses Excel regularly and wants to streamline their work. No prior experience with ChatGPT is required.

Speaker

Mike has worked in the IT training business since 1989 where his expertise and experience covers designing, delivering training courses, writing training materials and recording and editing video-based tutorials. Although he is a subject matter expert in a range of Microsoft technologies and has worked extensively with Mac OSX and Mac-related software since 2006; however, his passion is for all-things-Excel and in 2012 he founded the website theexceltrainer.co.uk

Mike is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of sectors. In addition to training, he designs and develops Microsoft Office-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes.

 

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