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ChatGPT for Beginners: Save time with Microsoft Excel (Short Course)

Use ChatGPT with Excel to standardize dates, clean categories, extract URL text and create spreadsheet outputs in one guided project.

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Format
Self-paced
Time
Under two hours per listing.
Tools
ChatGPT, Microsoft Excel
Level
Intermediate
Language
English

What you’ll learn

  • One guided project uses ChatGPT with Excel to standardize dates, clean categorical values with formulas, extract URL text, perform sentiment analysis and generate synthetic survey data.
  • The project is a single task-oriented sequence rather than a multi-course curriculum.

What does the learning look like?

  • The listing describes five step-by-step tasks in a split-screen project workspace with instructor video beside the work area.
  • Learners can download created files
Example to try

Make sense of a spreadsheet

  1. 01Start with

    A small table of expenses

  2. 02Make a first pass

    Clean data + a useful formula

  3. 03Make it yours

    Check row counts and totals

Use a fictional example to practise the workflow.

Cost, access and setup

Course cost

  • FAQ says Guided Projects cannot be audited free

What you’ll need

  • Recommended basic Excel interface/formula familiarity, ChatGPT access and basic understanding of language models.
  • ChatGPT 3.5
  • That model reference may be dated.
  • Desktop browser and internet connection required
  • Page says a preconfigured cloud workspace contains tools/resources.

How you’ll learn

  • Under two hours per listing.
  • Coursera Guided Project, browser-based cloud desktop, laptop/desktop only
  • No downloads or local installation required.

Certificate

  • Shareable Coursera completion certificate listed
  • Not an external professional credential.

Help along the way

  • A prerecorded expert video, preconfigured cloud workspace and guided steps are described
  • No instructor feedback or post-project support is specified.

Instructor

  • Jan Demiralp is named as instructor
  • Coursera is the listed provider.

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