Using AI in this way is what finally pushed me to learn databases instead of trying to make excel do tricks it’s not optimal for anyways.
I tried a bunch of iterations of various AI resources and even stuff like the Google Sheets integration and most of them just annoyed me into finding better ways to search for what I was trying to do. Eventually I had to stop ignoring the real problem and pivot to software better optimized for the work I was trying to do with it.
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can you give an example? This sounds like exactly what I’ve always wanted.
gornius@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a spreadsheet with items with their price and quantity bought. I want to include a discount with multiple tiers, based on how much items have been bought, and have a small table where I can define quantity and a discount that applies to that quantity. Which Excel functions should I use?
Response: You can achieve this in Excel using the VLOOKUP or INDEX-MATCH functions along with the IF function.
Create a table with quantity and corresponding discounts.
Use VLOOKUP or INDEX-MATCH to find the discount based on the quantity in your main table.
Use IF to apply different discounts based on quantity tiers.
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s really cool, I gotta try that in the future. Thanks!
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s shunned upon in the Excel pro scene (shout-out to my boi Makro), but xlookup can be used instead
Gork@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Index / Match gang represent. Much more flexible than Vlookup.