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A dedicated AI tool to help you to create your formulae in Excel |
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The Ajelix Excel AI tool claims to help you generate formulae in Excel - so we put it to the test |
Struggling to create Excel formulae? Perhaps it's time to get AI to help. You can download the dedicated Ajelix AI tool which will help you to write formulae here:
The home page, with the word Complement misspelt (sorry - pedantry dies hard).
After creating an account and logging in, you'll see something like this:
The tools available.
So I tried this request (I tried to make it as computer-friendly as I could):
A standard thing to want to do in Excel.
Here was the answer:
The formula suggested will definitely do the job, provided I expand the range I'm looking within to include all products.
My big gripe with this is that it claims that there are no alternative formulae. In fact, there are at least two other ways to accomplish this task, both of which are probably better:
Alternative | Notes |
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Use XLOOKUP | The XLOOKUP function was introduced to get round the flakiness and oddness of the VLOOKUP function, and is virtually always a better way to solve any problem. |
Use MATCH/INDEX | This is the standard way to do a safe lookup (one which doesn't depend on the order of columns in a lookup table). |
Above all, though, the formula generated will only be useful if you already understand how it works (so that you can tweak it), but if you already understand how it works it would have been quicker to write it yourself. This is the central problem behind any AI tool which tries to create formulae or code for you!
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