ChatGPT can help deconstruct and explain complicated formulas in Sheets.
Sometimes (often) I have trouble deconstructing Sheets formulas containing multiple nested functions.
I asked ChatGPT to explain a sample formula and to return its answer in a form I could copy and paste into another document for me to study.
Sample formula: =ArrayFormula(INDEX(A1:A20,MODE(MATCH(A1:A20,A1:A20,0))))
This is the result.
This is the Prompt I used to get the result. It’s crude and I’m sure it could be simplified but it worked.
Can you separate this Google Sheets formula into separate functions and return your answer in the form of two columns? The first column should contain the function. The second should contain your explanation. Here’s the formula: =ArrayFormula(INDEX(A1:A20,MODE(MATCH(A1:A20,A1:A20,0))))
Using one of the ChatGPT extensions for Sheets or Excel, I’m sure this Prompt could be standardized to refer to a formula in a cell rather than entering the formula in the prompt.