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Microsoft Excel Integration

The short answer: open Excel, right-click a cell and select "New Note" or click into any text field, press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows), speak for 20-60 seconds, and AICHE inserts formatted text explaining your data or formulas.

Typing comprehensive cell notes explaining complex formulas, data sources, or calculation logic takes time away from actual analysis and makes spreadsheets difficult to understand weeks later.

1. Open Microsoft Excel with your spreadsheet.
2. Right-click a cell and choose "New Note" or "Edit Note" (or click into header row, data validation message, etc.).
3. Press your AICHE hotkey to start recording.
4. Speak your explanation naturally (example: "this formula calculates weighted average customer satisfaction score using SUMPRODUCT to multiply each response count by its rating value then dividing by total responses, data source is monthly survey results from Qualtrics exported on the first of each month, update this cell when new survey data arrives by pasting into the raw data tab starting at row 5").
5. Press the hotkey again - AICHE transcribes and inserts the text.
6. Position the note or continue working.

Heads-up: Excel notes support plain text only. After dictation, you can resize the note box to display your full explanation without cutting off important details.

The pro-tip: add detailed notes to header rows explaining what each column represents, acceptable value ranges, and data update frequency. Future team members will understand your spreadsheet logic without reconstructing mental models from formulas alone.

Result: documenting 20 complex formulas that takes 30 minutes of typing becomes 8 minutes of dictation, and your spreadsheets become maintainable by others instead of personal black boxes.

Do this now: open your most complex Excel file, find one confusing formula, right-click the cell, add a note, press your hotkey, and dictate exactly what the formula does, why it exists, and what data it depends on.