Maximize Office Productivity with GenAI

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This Specialization equips learners with the skills to use generative AI to work more efficiently with productivity tools like Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and similar software from other vendors. It covers everything from selecting the right genAI tools for the job, generating useful text and images, crafting optimal prompts, and solving difficult problems related to spreadsheets, presentations, and documents. Whether you work in business, non-profit, or government, this expertise enables professionals to work more effectively in their productivity apps.

Syllabus

Course 1: Getting the Most from Your Spreadsheets with GenAI
Course 2: Getting the Most from Your Presentations with GenAI
Course 3: Getting the Most from Your Documents with GenAI

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Business users have found many ways to take advantage of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini™, and Claude. These tools can help you get work done faster and more efficiently. This includes the authoring of content within word processing tools like Microsoft® Word, Google Docs™, and LibreOffice® Writer or desktop publishing tools such as Adobe® InDesign®, Microsoft Publisher®, and QuarkXPress. GenAI tools can help you brainstorm ideas to inspire your writing and can help you create and revise text and image content for a wide range of writing and documentation projects. And all these tasks can be accomplished using free online AI tools. This course is designed for professionals in a variety of roles who currently create and edit documents to accomplish business tasks, and who want to enhance their use of word processing and desktop publishing applications by leveraging freely available generative AI tools. In this course, you will: select and use generative AI tools to generate ideas for your written documentation, use generative AI tools to develop text content for your word-processing documents, and use generative AI tools to produce images and design ideas you can use in your documents. This course assumes the use of Microsoft Word for document-related tasks, but other document programs like Google Docs should be sufficient. You also need access to free accounts for major genAI services like ChatGPT and Gemini.
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5 hours 55 minutes
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Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini™ have taken the world by storm. Business users have found numerous creative ways to use these tools to get their work done faster and more efficiently. This includes the development of business presentations. Whether you use Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Google Slides™, LibreOffice® Impress, or another application to produce your slides, GenAI tools can help you generate text and image content for your slides, as well as presenter notes and handouts. This is even possible using free online AI tools that don't require additional costs beyond your current investment in your office productivity software. This course is designed for professionals in a variety of roles who currently use presentation software to accomplish business tasks, and who want to enhance their use of presentation software by leveraging freely available generative AI tools. In this course, you will: select and use generative AI tools to generate text content for presentation slides and handouts, generate images and design ideas you can use in a presentation, and generate presenter notes and handout content for use in a presentation. This course assumes the use of Microsoft PowerPoint for slideshow-related tasks, but other slideshow programs like Google Slides should be sufficient. You also need access to free accounts for major genAI services like ChatGPT and Gemini.
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8 hours 45 minutes
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly become a phenomenon; a much-talked-about technological sea change. It's also a major disruptive force in the world of business. Generative AI tools can provide value in many ways, one of which is by assisting people who work with data stored in spreadsheets. No matter what spreadsheet software you use, what the data is about, or how it's structured, you can use freely available generative AI tools to enhance your productivity and help you find solutions to problems that can guide crucial business decisions. And, you can do all of this without having to pay for expensive AI integrations into your spreadsheet software. You just need to know what generative AI can do for you, what free tools to leverage, and the right questions to ask to get the most from your spreadsheets. This course is designed for professionals in a variety of roles who currently use spreadsheets to accomplish business tasks, and who want to enhance their use of spreadsheets by leveraging freely available generative AI tools. In this course, you will: select and use generative AI tools to generate spreadsheet content, use generative AI to enhance your productivity while working in spreadsheets, and use generative AI to solve spreadsheet-related problems. This course assumes the use of Microsoft Excel for spreadsheet-related tasks, but other spreadsheet programs like Google Sheets should be sufficient. You also need access to free accounts for major genAI services like ChatGPT and Gemini.