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Paste exported author text into a sheet and split into Title, Author, Paragraph and Caption columns—trim extra spaces,…

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AExecute — “help me do it”Paste exported author text into a sheet and split into Title, Author, Paragraph and Caption…+
Paste exported author text into a sheet and split into Title, Author, Paragraph and Caption columns—trim extra spaces, convert numeric-like text to text where needed, and deliver a clean columns file for the layout team by end of day Wednesday.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Before I hand this to layout, make importing painless—move title and author to the left, remove…+
Before I hand this to layout, make importing painless—move title and author to the left, remove trailing spaces, force paragraph and caption to plain text, normalize quotation marks, and add a sample import row so the layout lead can confirm field mapping quickly.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

3 of them
Paste text exported from authors and split it into title, author, paragraph and caption columns so layout teams can import clean fields.
Prepare a short teaching-grade dataset with question labels and balanced examples for my students.
Quickly split bulk paste of CSV exports from analytics into columns I can actually work with.

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Questions people ask

honest answers

Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Excel — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.