Examples

Real spreadsheet problems, solved clearly.

Use these prompts in the main tool, or adapt them to your own worksheet columns and rules.

Sales

Calculate tiered commission

“Calculate 5% commission up to $5,000, 7% from $5,001–$10,000, and 10% above $10,000.”

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Lookups

Find an employee by ID

“Return the employee name and department from the Employees sheet using the ID in A2.”

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Data quality

Find duplicate emails

“Mark duplicate email addresses in column B, but ignore blank cells.”

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Invoices

Highlight overdue invoices

“Show Overdue when the due date has passed and the invoice status is not Paid.”

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Reporting

Sum sales by city

“Sum revenue in column D where city in column B equals New York and date is in the current month.”

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Errors

Fix a #VALUE! formula

“Explain why this formula returns #VALUE! and give me a corrected version.”

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