If you do a lot of administration work that involves creating tables for a Microsoft Powerpoint or Google Slide presentation? Maybe you’re working on a business plan, school report, or a simple Word document. The table creation and formatting process can sometimes cause you a lot of headaches and hassle.
It’s time to enlist the help of AI to support you in creating perfect tables!
ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot from OpenAI, can make amazing tables in seconds.
In this article we’ll go over how to do tables in ChatGPT. Prepare yourself to be blown away by the results it can give you.
How To Do Tables In ChatGPT
By now, you may have already become acquainted with the new AI tech tool, which offers a live and human-like chat format and can provide detailed answers to most of the questions and prompts that it is given, both very fast and quite efficiently.
It’s one of the many reasons why millions of people around the world have been getting to know how ChatGPT works on a daily basis.
If you need to produce documents or presentations that include tables to give a visual grouping of the data that you’re showing, then ChatGPT can help you do this faster than you’d be able to on your own. The AI chatbot will also save you a lot of hassle when you’re trying to create and format your tables.
If you need to produce documents or presentations that include tables to give a visual grouping of the data that you’re showing, then ChatGPT can help you do this faster than you’d be able to on your own. The AI chatbot will also save you a lot of hassle when you’re trying to create and format your tables.
And to start is really simple.
All you need to do is provide ChatGPT with a prompt containing your own data and ask it to make a table. In the following example, we asked it to find the most popular Ford car models, based on US sales figures, between 2010 and 2020, and make a two-column table for it:
Next, we asked ChatGPT to find the 10 most popular Toyota car models sold in the US in the 2010-2020 time period, and to generate a table from that data for us.
We asked for it to create a similar table to the previous one from the information:
We then requested ChatGPT find the years that these car models were launched and add a column for that data. It did this for both car brands:
Playing With The Tables
You can also get ChatGPT to create tables by playing around with data that you already have. However, in order to do this, you’ll need to format the data in a way ChatGPT can understand. For a detailed explainer, see our article on how to give your tables to ChatGPT for analysis.
For example, we wanted to combine two tables we had, one of which was a list of customers and the date they first purchased a product, the other of the customer and the date of their last purchase.
First, we gave ChatGPT the data we had so that it could create the two tables.
Next, we asked ChatGPT to provide us with one table that included the data from the previous tables it just made for us, in order to merge the two and turn it into a three-column table.
Our prompt was as follows: Merge these two tables into new ones, making three columns. The first column will show the person’s name, the second column will give the first purchase date, and the third will show the last purchase date.
And this is what we got:
You can also do other things, like adding more columns. We asked the AI chatbot to add three more columns to our previous table with the following prompt:
I want you to add two more columns to the table. Column four will include what they bought. John, Margo, Peter and Jane bought BOX X; Abigail, Katie and Lizzie bought BOX Z. The fifth column is for home addresses.
This was the result:
Exporting Made Easy
Now that we had a table that we were happy with, it was time to export it, so that we could add it to the document we were making. Luckily, because ChatGPT is an AI that has the ability to recognize various computer languages, exporting your table is pretty easy.
Now that we had a table that we were happy with, it was time to export it, so that we could add it to the document we were making. Luckily, because ChatGPT is an AI that has the ability to recognize various computer languages, exporting your table is pretty easy.
For example, we wanted to add our table into an Excel file, so we asked for a format that can be imported to Excel:
You can also get ChatGPT to export your table as an .svg file, as well as get it to provide you with html and css output if you’re a developer or are tech literate enough to work with code.
Also, don’t miss our article on how to use ChatGPT to write Excel formulas, which can simplify Excel significantly!
Final Thoughts
Creating tables to include in your documents and slide presentations isn’t always an easy task. This is especially true when it comes to formatting tables so that they look clear and presentable for your audience. However, now that you know how to do tables in ChatGPT, this will no longer be an issue.
ChatGPT is a technology that can provide you with many more uses than just simply having a human-like conversation. Check out our blog 3 Prompts For Using ChatGPT To Edit Your Documents for even more useful tips on how this AI can be used to make your life a whole lot easier every day.
