How to use AI to Automate your Work

How to Use AI to Automate Your Boring Office Work

A Beginner's Guide to Prompting, Formatting Data, and Getting Your Time Back

Get the admin moving. Keep control of the work.

You do not need a technical background or a collection of complicated prompts to get useful help from AI. This practical playbook shows you how to brief an assistant clearly, check its output and build repeatable office workflows without treating company information casually.

Start with your employer’s approved tools, practise on fictional examples, and learn where drafting assistance ends and unattended automation begins.

What you will learn

- Write difficult emails without inventing promises or excuses.

- Extract decision-relevant findings from PDFs and verify the supporting pages.

- Turn notes into agendas, draft minutes and clear action records.

- Request compatible Excel formulas and test blanks, duplicates and missing matches.

- Plan repeatable data cleaning while preserving identifiers and original records.

- Build presentation outlines and reliable weekly status reports.

- Manage saved time ethically and document improvements you can demonstrate.

Tools you can reuse

Includes 20 numbered sections across seven parts, 15 copy-and-paste prompt templates, a five-point printable sanitisation checklist, five troubleshooting guides and a numbered directory of official privacy, capability and tool documentation.

Included formats

Approximately 9,402 words in a styled 47-page PDF and a reflowable EPUB. The PDF has linked contents, section page references and bookmarks; the EPUB has semantic navigation and adjustable reading text. A JPG cover is included in the publisher package.

Practical guidance, with clear limits

Independent educational guidance, not legal advice, employer approval or a guarantee of security, job protection or time savings. Features and terms vary by account and can change. Follow local policy, work on copies and review output before sending, publishing or running it. No paid subscription is required to practise the fictional examples.