Spreadsheet formulas are a perfect task for AI: the problem is well defined and you can check the answer immediately.
Describe your sheet
Tell the AI which columns hold which data and what you want calculated:
In Google Sheets, column A has dates, B has product names, C has quantity
and D has unit price. Write a formula for a summary table that shows
total revenue per product for March 2026.Things AI can help with
- Lookups: XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH
- Conditional sums and counts: SUMIFS, COUNTIFS
- Text cleanup: splitting names, trimming spaces, extracting emails
- Dates: working days, month-end, age calculations
- Dynamic arrays: FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, QUERY
- Conditional formatting rules
- Pivot table setups and charts
Fix broken formulas
Paste the formula and the error (#N/A, #VALUE!, #REF!) and ask why it fails. AI is good at spotting mismatched ranges and data-type problems.
Go further with scripts
For repetitive jobs, ask for an Apps Script (Google Sheets) or VBA macro, and test it on a copy of your file first.
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