100 Top Tips: Microsoft Excel
Power up your Microsoft Excel skills with this powerful pocket-sized book of tips that will save you time and help you learn more from your spreadsheets.
16 March 2026
How to Make Money with ChatGPT is out now, and can be found on the magazine racks in newsagents. It shows readers how to use ChatGPT to create products and services that they can sell.
I contributed chapters on building website templates, simple web apps, and Python tools. I also wrote tutorials on creating calendars with creative prompts, prompt engineering services, and making Excel templates for business that you can resell.
Across the projects I worked on, I found that AI was an accelerator but it took a lot of work and refinement to achieve a useful result. It was interesting to experiment, and I often found that I was nudging up against the limits of what the tool could achieve. For the programming tasks I found that my own experience, in both web design and Python programming, were essential for steering the AI in the right direction. In Python, I created a program that takes your photos and videos, sorts them by date, date-stamps each clip, and builds a single video of them all. This is something I used to do manually each year to record family memories, but which will be easier to achieve now with AI.
I've published demo files from the book online so you can see the results I was able to achieve, and can try the code. Really, though, the book is about showing you how you can create your own unique outputs that exactly meet your needs.
The process that the book demonstrates and the outcomes achieved apply equally to other AI tools, so if you have a preferred alternative to ChatGPT, it's still worth picking up a copy if you're interested in the core ideas.
The book was co-authored with David Crookes and Ryan Butt and published by Anthem Publishing. If you can't find a copy in your local shop, you can order it online.
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