From the course: Enhancing Excel with Generative AI Tools
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Debug complex Excel formulas with AI
From the course: Enhancing Excel with Generative AI Tools
Debug complex Excel formulas with AI
- [Instructor] Debugging complex Excel formulas can feel overwhelming, especially when errors block your path to accurate results. That's where AI, specifically ChatGPT, can make a huge difference. So let's dive into how you can use ChatGPT to identify and correct formula errors, ensuring your data analysis stays on point and run smoothly. Follow along, go ahead and open the data set called Debug Formulas. Let's start with a common scenario here. Calculating a running total in a sales column. You've written a formula using cell references, but you'd like to switch to Excel's structured table references for more flexibility. Here's what we'll ask ChatGPT. I will paste in my prompt. All of the prompts used in this chapter will be available in the exercise files for this chapter. We are going to use a formula here to get the running total of the sales column. I provided the reference there. How can I rewrite this so that it uses structured table references instead of the typical cell…
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