Course Overview

This course equips participants with the skills to integrate ChatGPT directly into Excel for smarter data handling, automation, and research support. Participants will learn how to streamline repetitive tasks, generate formulas, clean datasets, analyze trends, and build interactive reports with AI assistance—all within familiar spreadsheet workflows.

Learning Outcomes

• Connect ChatGPT with Excel through APIs, Office Scripts, and add-ins.
• Automate formula generation, debugging, and optimization.
• Use ChatGPT to summarize, clean, and transform large datasets.
• Create dynamic reports, dashboards, and pivot-table explanations with AI help.
• Build custom Excel functions powered by ChatGPT for natural language queries.
• Leverage AI for text summarization, sentiment analysis, and categorization inside Excel.
• Streamline academic research tasks: table formatting, bibliometric summaries, structured data extraction.
• Integrate ChatGPT with Power Query and Power BI workflows.
• Apply best practices for data privacy, reproducibility, and responsible AI use.
• Leverage ChatGPT in Excel to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and enhance decision-making.

Tools & Resources

Microsoft Excel (latest version), OpenAI API, Excel add-ins (ChatGPT Excel Plugin, XLChat), Office Scripts, Power Query, VBA macros, Power BI integration.