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YesChatGPT · 15 Jul 2025

Instead of having to read lots of docs and do lots of trial and error, I now formulate what I want to ChatGPT, give it the file, and thus far I have always received the solution, a transformed file

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Helped: Using plain language to generate code for tasks I lack expertise in.

… Too bad I've become the got-to point for little mean problems for colleagues. Instead of having to read lots of docs and do lots of trial and error, I now formulate what I want to ChatGPT, give it the file, and thus far I have always received the solution, a transformed file. Sure, anyone regularly using Excel/Power Query could have written the few lines of code easily enough, but since I don't, and don't plan to, being able to use plain language and let the AI do the actual coding is a huge time saver. …