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Workshop: AI Inside Your Spreadsheets
Turn spreadsheets into AI analysis tools with the new =AI and =COPILOT functions

Still wrestling with ugly spreadsheet data?
Hours wasted trying to get insights from data that won’t line up
Formulas and macros that break the moment you touch them
Endless rows of customer feedback, survey results, or transactions you can’t make sense of
Spreadsheets are powerful. But they’ve always required technical tricks to get real insights.
Until now.
In this workshop, you’ll see how to make spreadsheets do the hard work for you
Using the new =AI and =COPILOT functions (plus a few smart plugins), you’ll learn how to:
Clean messy data without formulas or macros
Enrich financial or customer data automatically
Extract insights from surveys, reviews, or transaction logs
Run decision-ready analysis directly inside Google Sheets
No formula yoga. No scripts. Just =AI.
What you’ll take home
A clear understanding of when to use =AI, =COPILOT, or plugins
Prompt templates you can copy directly into your sheets
Example spreadsheets showing cleaning, mapping, enrichment, and topic mining in action
A repeatable workflow for analysis that’s faster, cleaner, and ready for business use
Agenda
Part 1: Bringing AI to Spreadsheets
Copilot vs. =AI function vs. custom solutions and plugins
How they connect to your data — and what each is best for
Part 2: What AI in Sheets Can (and Can’t) Do
The limits of current spreadsheet AI
How to keep outputs reliable and decision-ready
Part 3: Use Cases You’ll Use Right Away
Data cleaning without complex formulas
Mapping and enrichment (e.g. missing fields, categories, tags)
Topic mining and summarization of large text datasets
Practical examples from finance, customers, and operations
Requirements
Google account (Google Sheets)
Access to AI functions (or plugins — guidance provided in the workshop)
This is for you if:
You rely on spreadsheets but you can’t afford wasting hours on cleaning, mapping, and categorizing data
You want decision-ready insights directly in the tools you already use
When & Where:
Thursday, September 25, 2025
4:00 – 5:30 PM CET
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