We recently had a post about reasons why you may not want to use an AI chatbot like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or CoPilot.  

AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and CoPilot seem to be growing in popularity every day.  That doesn’t mean that there is no downside.  There’s always a downside.

If you are just getting started with AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, CoPilot, or Perplexity (or the 10,000 others that exist by now), you may not have any idea what to use it to do.  

But which languages are supported?  To that, I have everyone’s favorite answer - it depends.

If you are new to AI chatbots then you’ve probably only heard about one (probably ChatGPT - it gets the most attention).  Well, there are a lot of other choices that you may want to consider.

I know I am not alone in thinking that our world is now full of constant distractions, mostly digital (even as I am sitting here there is the distraction of the email notification indicator, a Roomba doing its thing, and the noise of a TV in the distance).

If you need Microsoft Excel functionality that is not built in then you may be able to use ChatGPT or a similar AI tool to create a VBA macro for you.

This tip is slightly more advanced because it requires a working knowledge of Excel and at least basic programming.  

If you use Microsoft Excel functions and aren’t sure what they all do, then you are in luck.  You can use ChatGPT to give you a step-by-step explanation of any of them.

People like free.  People (are starting to) like AI.  Why not combine the two?

Several of the most popular AI tools are available now for free.  

I know, I know, it seems backwards.  It doesn’t have to be though and it can help you get past writer’s block, idea block, or whatever block is holding up your progress.

You can give a small amount of context and ask the AI tool to ask you questions about it to gather...