📗"Boost Your Excel Skills with AI

 

✅ 1. Data Analysis & Insights

Excel (especially with Microsoft 365) has built-in AI features like:

• Ideas (or Analyze Data):

  • Automatically analyzes your data and suggests trends, outliers, and summaries.

  • You just click a button and it gives you charts, pivot tables, and key findings.

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✅ 2. Predictive Analytics

• Forecast Sheets:

  • Excel can create forecasts from historical data using built-in AI models (based on Exponential Smoothing).

  • Found under: Data → Forecast Sheet.

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✅ 3. Natural Language Queries

• Using the “Ideas” feature or Power BI integration, you can type questions like:

  • “What is the average sales by region?”

  • Excel will respond with a chart or table based on your query.

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✅ 4. AI-Powered Data Types

• Excel can recognize data like stocks, geography, and more using linked data types.

• It automatically pulls in info from online sources via AI.

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✅ 5. Power Query (AI-assisted ETL)

• Use AI to:

  • Clean, format, and transform data.

  • Detect column types, missing data, and suggest steps to clean your dataset.

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✅ 6. Automation with Copilot (Microsoft 365)

• Excel Copilot (available to some M365 users) lets you:

  • Ask natural language questions.

  • Create complex formulas with a prompt.

  • Generate summaries, trends, and visualizations instantly.