What to know about Excel before you use AI to make your spreadsheet.

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Presented by Grant Baldwin from Custom Spreadsheets

There are important features in Excel that will make your spreadsheeting easier and more efficient. These features are not well known but are extremely important to incorporate into your AI instructions to get the most out of both your spreadsheet and the AI.

Will include:

How to restrict what can be entered into a cell.

What are tables and why are they important.

How to make important data stand out.

Ways to collate data from multiple sheets.

Introduction to Pivot tables.

This workshop is suitable for anyone who is using a spreadsheet in their organisation or wants to use AI to make a spreadsheet.

Grant set up Custom Spreadsheet Solutions to build customised spreadsheets for organisations and provide coaching in spreadsheet use. His clients are able to work more efficiently and spend time on the parts of their jobs they enjoy instead of dealing with repetitive tasks or manual calculations.

Grant has 20 years’ experience working with spreadsheets. He has used them to do everything from presenting official statistics, to calculating investment returns, determining medication dosing, recording school competition results, and solving penguin puzzles.

Doors open at 12.15pm for a light lunch and networking.


Fitzherbert Rowe Lawyers, Level 7

Wed Dec 09 12:30

Dec 09 2026 13:30

65 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North Central, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand