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I'll admit that I'm not the most Excel-savvy of people, hence a need to find an easier way to navigate the spreadsheet software. I thought artificial intelligence might make busywork a little lighter, but after three failed attempts of trying to add ChatGPT for Microsoft Excel to my software (including wiping my cache and cookies), I found GPT Excel.
GPT Excel is an AI assistant with over 500,000 users, built specifically for Excel and Google Sheets. With free and paid ($7 per month) versions available, GPT Excel's features include AI Chat, Generate and Understand Formulas, Task Automation Generator, SQL, Data Validation and Filtering, and the ability to generate table templates.
While this isn't an incredibly sophisticated tool, what it lacks in flashy add-ons, it makes up for in simple and succinct tools -- which for something as robust as data (and its algorithms) makes sense.
Since I was intent on summarizing and understanding the data from the Excel sheet, I focused on the Formulas page of the platform where your data can be input, then generated or explained.
This was my approach when attempting to summarize the data from my spreadsheet.
Look, artificial intelligence is a new, hot topic. Its rapid growth speaks to its popularity and success but consequently also speaks to the reality of oversaturation and overwhelm.
But I can't dismiss the feeling that while AI-generated organizational tools were made to reduce repetitive tasks and problem-solving time, you may spend just as much time navigating between the incredibly niche aspects of each product to find the best one for you.
While articles -- like the one you're reading -- are here to help answer upfront questions, word of mouth doesn't trump experience. Tools, whether literal or digital, will always be up to individual preference and opinion. My personal thoughts on GPT Excel come down to three things:
Numerous artificial intelligence-powered apps can summarize your data. While I eventually turned to ChatGPT to have my Excel data summarized, these tools claim to provide the same services for their target audience, which in some cases is the same as ChatGPT.
While my initial attempt at ChatGPT for Excel failed, I found so many alternatives in the process -- some that are incredibly intentional and articulate about the problem they aim to solve.
Wherever you end up on your summarizing data journey, I hope your spreadsheet hassles are a bit easier to handle.
