Lesson 14 of 20

Spreadsheets and simple data

Ask an AI for the formula, never for the answer: your spreadsheet can check a formula, and nobody can check a number it simply asserted.

You learn to describe the calculation you want and to try a new formula out without fear of wrecking the sheet.

Unit 3 · Ideas, content and data Part of the full course
6 min · 10 steps · beginner level

What you will be able to do afterwards

  • Ask for formulas that work first time in your own sheet.
  • Describe a calculation without knowing the function name.
  • Test a new formula before you trust it.

What is inside

The 10 steps of the lesson, in order. Each one works on a phone and marks itself.

  1. The formula you don’t know
  2. Formula, not result
  3. How to describe what you want
  4. A payments sheet, from scratch to useful
  5. What you can confidently ask for
  6. True or false
  7. Ask for your formula
  8. Trying out a new formula
  9. Problem and request
  10. Before you paste your data
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The other lessons in this unit

Ideas, content and data: Beyond email: marketing, texts in your voice, weekly planning, spreadsheets and images.

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