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A reusable ChatGPT prompt for Excel that gets much better results than “write me a formula”

I’ve noticed that Excel prompts tend to fail for a simple reason: we often tell the model what formula we want, but not enough about the workbook. A prompt like: “Give me an Excel formula to match customer IDs.” can produce something technically correct but completely wrong for the actual spreadshe…

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  1. 2026-09-29 16:39 · r/PromptEngineering
    A reusable ChatGPT prompt for Excel that gets much better results than “write me a formula”

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