Working with Files — Excel, Word, PDF & Presentations
Turn information into a document someone can use. Learn extraction, structure, summarising and basic spreadsheet reasoning while checking what AI may have omitted.
Why this matters
Admin, teaching resources, quotations, project reports and operational summaries. A useful learning task gives you a reason to use the tool and a way to judge the result. Instead of collecting generated answers, learn to identify what the task requires and what still needs checking.
The worked task
Your practice brief
An organisation has an untidy fictional order sheet and needs a concise status report.
Use fictional or approved information. Before starting, say what a useful output would look like and which claims or actions need review.
- Define the fields and what counts as an open order.
- Check missing dates, duplicate entries and inconsistent statuses.
- Ask AI to draft a report and verify totals independently.
- Produce a readable table and a presentation explaining the exceptions.
What you can show
Clean sample sheet, checked totals, report and source notes.
Keep the original attempt and the improved version when appropriate. Explain which parts AI helped with, what you changed yourself and why the final output is more useful.
Review before calling it complete
- Does the result answer the actual brief?
- Which facts, calculations or behaviours did you verify?
- What is still uncertain or incomplete?
- Can you explain the important decisions without relying on the generated answer?
Connect the next skill
Create reusable templates before considering automated refreshes.
Practice presenting the result or handling the conversation around it. A well-made output and a clear explanation are different skills; both deserve an attempt and feedback.
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Find an answer you can trace to a source
An AI answer sounds convincing, but the source may be missing, outdated or unrelated.
Research + verificationFollow the example →
From repeated problem to a tested prototype
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