This content was created by Paul Barnhurst. This content was uploaded by Paul Barnhurst. This is a YouTube video titled "Clarity isn’t optional when using AI." containing a conversation recorded on December 24, 2025, featuring Paul Barnhurst discussing how to experiment with AI in Excel, including tasks like building a table of contents, price volume mix analysis, and data visualization.
If someone wants to start experimenting with AI in Excel, what tasks would you recommend?
So I think if you're just experimenting, I would start with just trying different things. If you're trying to use it in your actual work, the areas it's good is guidance and structure. You can give it. Now the challenge is will often give you overly complex formulas, or it will give you a different answer every time. I think it's good to validate assumptions like insaid. I think you know, helping you build a table of contents, price volume mix analysis, which is common. If you have all the data data to tell you what the difference is. Those are areas it's really good at. I think also helping you select a graph, analyzing some data and getting that first pass like some charts. You're still going to need to clean it up.
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