DeepSeek for Excel MasterClass 5 – Achieve More in Less Time

Overview

Option 1 – Accuracy & Governance Focus
In data-driven organisations, accuracy is non-negotiable. Join Ray for a structured 90-minute masterclass demonstrating how AI and DeepSeek integrate with Excel to improve precision, documentation, and defensibility. Learn how to ask effective questions, validate outputs, and record responses into referenced working papers. Ray demonstrates practical examples including subtotal charts, named ranges, logical IF with AND/OR, and rounding controls — all designed to reduce manual risk and strengthen reporting confidence.

Key Benefits:
• Build defensible, documented Excel workflows using DeepSeek
• Reduce formula errors and strengthen validation processes
• Improve governance and transparency in AI-assisted reporting

Option 2 – Productivity & Practical Automation Focus (Made Easy Theme)
Excel tasks that take hours can now be made easy. In this high-impact session, Ray shows how mastering DeepSeek with Excel dramatically improves productivity. Learn how to generate sparklines, manage custom lists, freeze panes, and automate repetitive formatting tasks with AI guidance. Discover how to merge your own data into DeepSeek for better responses and how to document advanced outputs for reuse. This is practical automation — simplified, structured, and immediately applicable.

Key Benefits:
• Save hours on reporting and worksheet management
• Automate common Excel processes with AI guidance
• Increase speed without sacrificing accuracy

3.    WEBINAR OVERVIEWS – PRESENTER: RAY
Option 1 – Accuracy & Governance Focus
Overview:
In data-driven organisations, accuracy is non-negotiable. Join Ray for a structured 90-minute masterclass demonstrating how AI and DeepSeek integrate with Excel to improve precision, documentation, and defensibility. Learn how to ask effective questions, validate outputs, and record responses into referenced working papers. Ray demonstrates practical examples including subtotal charts, named ranges, logical IF with AND/OR, and rounding controls — all designed to reduce manual risk and strengthen reporting confidence.
Key Benefits:
• Build defensible, documented Excel workflows using DeepSeek
• Reduce formula errors and strengthen validation processes
• Improve governance and transparency in AI-assisted reporting
Option 2 – Productivity & Practical Automation Focus (Made Easy Theme)
Overview:
Excel tasks that take hours can now be made easy. In this high-impact session, Ray shows how mastering DeepSeek with Excel dramatically improves productivity. Learn how to generate sparklines, manage custom lists, freeze panes, and automate repetitive formatting tasks with AI guidance. Discover how to merge your own data into DeepSeek for better responses and how to document advanced outputs for reuse. This is practical automation — simplified, structured, and immediately applicable.
Key Benefits:
• Save hours on reporting and worksheet management
• Automate common Excel processes with AI guidance
• Increase speed without sacrificing accuracy
Option 3 – Strategic Insights & Advanced Capability Focus
Move beyond formulas and into strategic intelligence. In this forward-focused masterclass, Ray demonstrates how DeepSeek and Excel together unlock deeper insights from everyday data. Learn how to ask advanced analytical questions, integrate your own datasets, create summarized charts, manage named ranges, and hyperlink across workbooks for dynamic modelling. This session focuses on mastering the interaction between AI and Excel to elevate analysis, strengthen decision-making, and deliver higher-value outcomes across sectors.
Key Benefits:
• Transform raw data into structured insights
• Strengthen analytical capability using AI-assisted techniques
• Improve decision quality with faster scenario exploration

Why you should Attend

• Harness the full potential of your software investment
• Time-Efficient Power Learning with Focused Topics
• Practical Hands-On Skill Enhancement with High Retention
• Supporting Resources, Learning Guide and Practice Files
• Improved Productivity, Quality and Error Minimization
• Up-to-Date Current Knowledge Transfer
• Professional Development Recognized for Career Advancement
• Interactive Experience Through Chat and Live Interaction
• Rapid Return on Investment

Who Will Benefit

• Finance professionals, accountants, analysts, managers, administrators, HR teams, consultants, business owners, compliance officers, educators, and operational leaders who regularly use Excel and want to responsibly integrate AI and DeepSeek into reporting, automation, analysis, and documentation workflows to gain measurable efficiency and competitive advantage.

Areas Covered in the Session

• DeepSeek Explained
• DeepSeek options, costs, disclaimers, copyright & knowledge base
• Tips and wider examples of uses
• Understand the screen, key options & DeepSeek capability
• Presenting effective questions to DeepSeek
• Present more advanced questions with your own data for best results
• Record more advanced DeepSeek responses in your own referenced document

Work effectively in DeepSeek with questions and answers to these Excel tasks:

• Sort Data by 2 Columns (Uploading A Sample File)
• Sort Data Columns
• Proper Table Design for Data Management
• Count Various Types of Data in Cells in A Large Range
• Chart Non Adjacent Columns of Data
• Add A Secondary Chart Axis
• Protect Workbook
• Unprotect A Workbook
• Protect Worksheet

Extended Learning Topics
In addition to the core webinar content, the following topics are included in the Learning Guide, complete with clear, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.
These topics will also be presented and demonstrated live during the webinar where time permits.

• Protect Specified Cells
• Formula to Calculate Age in Years
• Change the Case of Text