Mastering Advanced Excel with ChatGPT- 2nd Edition

Advanced Excel is a powerful tool that goes beyond basic spreadsheet functions, allowing users to perform complex calculations, manipulate large datasets, create interactive visualizations, automate tasks, and conduct in-depth data analysis. If you want to enhance your productivity, accuracy, and decision-making skills in Excel, look no further.

This book is a comprehensive guide that explores the advanced features of Microsoft Excel. From creating macros with VBA to automating tasks, working with large datasets, creating visualizations, and conducting data analysis, this book covers it all. Additionally, it also introduces ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that enhances Excel automation. With practical examples and clear instructions, this guide empowers users to maximize their productivity, efficiency, and decision-making skills in Excel. In this edition, six new chapters take your Excel skills further with ChatGPT, covering practical ways to create formulas, analyze data, automate tasks, generate VBA code, troubleshoot Excel problems, and improve everyday productivity with AI. The book combines advanced Excel techniques with practical AI applications to help professionals work smarter and more efficiently.

By the end of this book, you will have developed the expertise and confidence to tackle complex tasks in Excel with ease.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
● Develop proficiency in working with large datasets.
● Conduct data analysis using powerful tools like VLOOKUP and advanced PivotTables.
● Create impactful charts and graphs that effectively communicate your findings and insights.
● In this new edition, explore six dedicated chapters on ChatGPT and Excel.
● Use ChatGPT to create, explain, and improve Excel formulas and solve complex Excel calculations.
● Apply ChatGPT to advanced formulas and complex Excel calculations.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
For students and individuals seeking to enhance their Excel skills for advanced tasks, this extensive book serves as a valuable asset. It also caters to the needs of accountants, financial analysts, business analysts, and data scientists who aspire to boost their efficiency and productivity in Excel.

1. Excel 365
2. Cell References and Range
3. Working with Formulas and Functions
4. Data Validation
5. Protection
6. Sorting a Database
7. Filtering a Database
8. Subtotals and Data Consolidation
9. PivotTables
10. Conditional Formatting
11. What-if Analysis
12. Working with Multiple Worksheets, Workbooks and Applications
13. Working with Charts
14. Creating and Recording Macros in VBA
15. Assigning Buttons to Macros
16. Variables and Data Types in VBA
17. Functions and Subroutines in VBA
18. Conditional Statements in VBA
19. Looping Structures in VBA
20. Arrays and Collections in VBA
21. Debugging and Error Handling in VBA
22. User Forms and User Input in VBA
23. Advanced VBA Techniques and Best Practices
24. Building Custom Add-ins with VBA
25. ChatGPT with Excel
26. Using ChatGPT for Excel Formulas
27. Advanced Formulas with ChatGPT
28. Data Cleaning and Transformation with ChatGPT
29. Data Analysis with ChatGPT
30. Writing and Understanding Macros with ChatGPT
31. Refining and Debugging VBA with ChatGPT

Ritu Arora is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Excel, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Excel Expert, AI Productivity Specialist, author, and international corporate trainer with over 20 years of experience. She has trained 70,000+ professionals across 2,500+ organisations in India and internationally.


Her expertise includes Advanced Excel, Power BI, Microsoft 365, Power Query, VBA, Data Visualisation, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT for Excel, and Claude AI for Excel. She has delivered training for leading organisations including Accenture, Adidas, Airbnb, Bank of America, Barclays, Bharat Petroleum, Citibank, EY, HDFC Bank, Hyundai, LG, Nestlé, Nokia, NTPC, SMBC, Swiggy, Tata, Tata Power, and Walmart, among many others. She has also delivered training for ADNOC and contributed to skill-development programmes with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).


Ritu is the author of Advance Excel Guide and Mastering Advanced Excel with ChatGPT Integration, published by BPB Publications. She also delivers live professional education webinars for international audiences, focusing on Excel, AI and productivity.


Through her YouTube channel, Ritu shares practical Excel, AI and productivity tutorials with learners worldwide. She is also an Udemy instructor, reaching an international learner base through her online courses.


In 2026, Ritu was recognised as a Microsoft MVP for Excel for her technical expertise, knowledge sharing and contributions to the Microsoft community. She is the Founder of UpWise Training, a corporate training and professional development company offering programmes across Excel, Power BI, Microsoft 365, AI, communication and soft skills, leadership development, POSH and workplace compliance. Through UpWise, she helps professionals and organisations build practical skills, enhance productivity and create future-ready workplaces.


Ritu believes that the best training is not about learning more, but about working better—with greater clarity, confidence and impact.


Happy learning, and enjoy the journey!