Your AI answer, as a real file

You asked a question, you got a good answer, and now you need it as a Word document. So you copy it, paste it, and spend the next twenty minutes fixing tables, retyping equations and rebuilding a spreadsheet by hand. This does that part for you.

AI to Office is a browser extension. It puts a small row of buttons under every answer in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. Press Word and you get a Word document. Press Excel and you get a workbook. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to upload, no account.

Try it in two minutes

Try it yourself

Each lesson gives you a prompt to paste into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, then the buttons to press and what to look for in the file. The prompts are long on purpose, so the answer gives the extension plenty to show. The first three are open below; the rest open with a click.

WordA full technical report

Paste this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

Write a detailed technical report titled Rooftop Solar for a Secondary School. Use numbered sections with subsections: 1 Introduction, 2 Background (with 2.1 How solar panels work and 2.2 Key terms), 3 Method (with 3.1 Site survey and 3.2 Assumptions), 4 Results, 5 Discussion, 6 Recommendations, and finally References.

Throughout the text, use bold for key terms, italics for emphasis, and one inline code term such as kWh_per_day.

In Background, give two displayed math equations: annual energy equals panel capacity times peak sun hours times 365 times a performance ratio, and simple payback equals installed cost divided by annual savings. Refer to them in the text as Equation 1 and Equation 2, and include one short inline equation inside a sentence.

In Method, list the site survey as a numbered list of six steps. Then write the line "Table 1: Design assumptions" followed by a table with the columns Parameter, Value, Unit and Source, with eight rows.

In Results, write the line "Table 2: Monthly performance" followed by a wide table with the columns Month, Sun hours, Generation (kWh), Use (kWh), Exported (kWh), Imported (kWh), Savings ($) and CO2 avoided (kg), for all twelve months. Then write a paragraph that refers to Table 1 and Table 2 by name.

In Discussion, include a nested bulleted list three levels deep and one key finding set as a blockquote. Add a Python function of about twenty lines that calculates monthly generation, in a code block.

End with a References section listing five sources in APA style.

Then

  1. Wait for the whole answer to finish. These prompts are long, so it can take a minute.
  2. Under the answer, press Word.
  3. Open the file in Word.

Look for

  • Click an equation. It opens in Word’s equation editor, so you can change it.
  • Open View, then Navigation Pane. Every section and subsection is listed, because they are real Word headings.
  • The twelve month table is too wide for the page, so it gets a landscape page of its own, and the page numbers carry on after it.
  • Table 1 and Table 2 are introduced exactly as the answer wrote them, and the code keeps its formatting.

Then try

Press More, then Settings…, set Style to Thesis and press Save. Press Word again: now there is a contents page, a list of tables, numbered headings, numbered captions, equation numbers and roman numerals on the front pages, and the words Table 2 in the text become a live link to the table. Set Style back to As written for plain exports.

ExcelA cost model that still calculates

Paste this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

Build a cost and savings model for putting rooftop solar panels on five school buildings. Compute every number yourself and show only values in the tables, never formulas.

First state the method, one sentence per line: Panel cost is Panels times Price per panel. Installation is Panel cost times 0.35. Inverter and wiring is Panel cost times 0.15. Total cost is Panel cost plus Installation plus Inverter and wiring. Then say that the project is appraised at a discount rate of 6%.

Table 1: for the buildings Block A to Block E, the columns Building, Panels, Price per panel, Panel cost, Installation, Inverter and wiring, Total cost and Share of total (%), followed by a Total row and an Average row.

Table 2: the columns Building, Campus (North or South), Survey date (written like 2026-03-12), Total cost, Budget, Variance and Verdict, where Verdict is WITHIN or OVER, with about half of the buildings over budget.

Table 3: a cash flow with the columns Year, Cash flow and Cumulative for years 0 to 10, with a negative cash flow in year 0. Below it, a small table giving the NPV and IRR.

Table 4: the columns Month and Generation (kWh) for all twelve months, and suggest a chart of it.

Then

  1. Wait for the whole answer to finish. These prompts are long, so it can take a minute.
  2. Press Excel. It appears under any answer that has a table.
  3. Open the workbook.

Look for

  • Click any Total cost cell. The formula bar shows a formula, not a typed number.
  • The Assumptions sheet holds 0.35, 0.15 and 6%, each next to the sentence it came from. Change one, and every total that depends on it updates.
  • The Total and Average rows use SUM and AVERAGE. In Table 2, Total cost is looked up from Table 1, Verdict is worked out and colours itself, the dates sort as dates, and Campus and Verdict have dropdown lists.
  • NPV and IRR are live functions that use the 6% on the Assumptions sheet.
  • A chart of monthly generation, drawn from the cells, so it moves when a number changes.

Then try

Press More, then Excel, choose and chart…. Press Everything, then in the chart panel choose which tables get a chart, what to plot against what, and whether to add a trendline, and press Export.

PowerPointA ten minute deck to edit, not a blank one

Paste this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

Prepare the content for a ten minute presentation titled Solar Power for Our School. Give each slide its own heading and keep each slide short.

The problem: four bullet points on rising energy bills.

How solar works: a numbered list of five steps.

The key formulas: two displayed math equations, for annual energy and for simple payback.

Cost by building: a table with the columns Building, Panels and Cost ($) for five buildings with clearly different costs.

Savings over time: a table with the columns Year and Savings ($) for 2026 to 2033, rising each year.

Options compared: a table with the columns Option, Cost ($), Savings per year ($) and Payback (years), for four options.

The calculator we used: a Python function of about thirty lines, in a code block.

What we learned: a nested bulleted list two levels deep.

Next steps: three bullet points. Questions: one line.

Then

  1. Wait for the whole answer to finish. These prompts are long, so it can take a minute.
  2. Press More, then PowerPoint.
  3. Open the deck.

Look for

  • A cover slide, then one slide for each heading, with the numbered list still numbered.
  • Equations you can click and edit.
  • The tables as real PowerPoint tables, with a chart slide after the ones worth plotting. Click a chart: its numbers open for editing, because it is a real chart, not a picture.
  • The long code split across slides, marked (1 of 2) and so on, instead of running off the bottom.

Then try

Press More, then Settings… and choose the PowerPoint tab. Type template into the Find a setting box, choose your university or company template under Slide template, and press Save. Export again, and your logos and layouts sit behind every slide.

PDFSomething to send that nobody should edit

No new prompt

Use the answer from the Word lesson.

Then

  1. Under the answer, press PDF.
  2. A print window opens. Set Destination to Save as PDF.
  3. Press Save.

Look for

  • The same headings, tables, equations and code as the Word file, with page numbers.
Choose and previewDecide what goes in before you save

No new prompt

Use the answer from the Word lesson. A long answer is where this helps most.

Then

  1. Press More, then Word, choose and preview….
  2. The answer’s sections are listed. Untick the ones you do not want, rename a heading, or move a section with its arrows.
  3. Press Export. The page is shown at its real size, with your margins and fonts, and how many pages it will take.
  4. Press Save it.

Look for

  • The sections you unticked are not in the file, and a renamed heading carries its new name.
FlashcardsAn answer turned into a study deck

Paste this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

Quiz me on photosynthesis for an exam. Write fifteen questions that get harder as they go. Put each question on its own line starting with Q: and its answer on the next line starting with A:.

Where an answer has several parts, give them as a short bulleted list under the A: line. Write any equation as a math equation.

Then

  1. Wait for the whole answer to finish. These prompts are long, so it can take a minute.
  2. Press More, then Flashcards.
  3. Choose Anki or Quizlet, untick any card you do not want, and press Save deck.
  4. In Anki, choose File, then Import, pick the file, and tick Allow HTML in fields. In Quizlet, create a set, choose Import, and paste in the file’s contents.

Look for

  • One card for each question, answers with several points kept on separate lines, and equations that Anki shows as real maths.

Then try

Ask for ten key sentences about photosynthesis with the most important term in each in bold. In the flashcard panel, choose Fill in the blank: each bold term becomes a gap to fill. For vocabulary, tick Both directions to practise each card both ways round.

Cheat sheetA whole course on one or two pages

Paste this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

Make a detailed exam cheat sheet for introductory statistics. Give each of these topics its own heading: Describing data, Probability, Normal distribution, Sampling and the central limit theorem, Confidence intervals, Hypothesis tests, Correlation and regression, and Choosing a test.

Under each heading, give the key formulas as displayed math equations, the key terms in bold with a one line meaning, and a small table where it helps, such as common z values. Keep every explanation to one sentence.

Then

  1. Wait for the whole answer to finish. These prompts are long, so it can take a minute.
  2. Press More, then Settings…. Set Style to Cheat sheet, set Page size to what your exam allows, such as A4 or Letter, and press Save.
  3. Press More, then Word, choose and preview…, then Everything. The preview says about how many pages the sheet takes.
  4. Over your limit? Press Not yet, start again and untick a section. When it fits, press Save it.

Look for

  • Three columns of small type with almost no margin.
  • Long explanations cut to their first sentence, with equations, tables and lists kept whole.

Then try

Set Style back to As written when you want normal exports again.

Email and memoFor office work

Paste this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

Write an update to my team about this quarter’s maintenance budget. Start with a two sentence summary.

Then give a table with the columns Contract, Budget, Actual, Variance and Status for eight contracts, where Status is On track or Over.

Then give three short sections with headings: What went well, What went over, and What we will do next quarter, each with two or three bullet points. End with a two line recommendation.

Then

  1. Wait for the whole answer to finish. These prompts are long, so it can take a minute.
  2. Press More, then Copy for email.
  3. Paste into a new email in Outlook or Gmail.

Look for

  • The table arrives with its borders and spacing, which an ordinary copy loses, and the headings and bullet points come through intact.

Then try

Press More, then Settings… and set Style to Business memo. Type memo into the Find a setting box and fill in Memo from, then type foot and set Line at the foot of every page to Confidential. Press Save, then Word: the memo opens with To, From, Date and Subject.

ReferencesAssignments marked on citations

Paste this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

Write a five paragraph essay on the history of solar power, from the discovery of the photovoltaic effect to modern rooftop systems. Cite your sources in the text in APA style, and end with a References section listing eight sources in APA style.

Then

  1. Wait for the whole answer to finish. These prompts are long, so it can take a minute.
  2. Press More, then Settings…. Type reference into the Find a setting box, set Reference list to APA, and press Save.
  3. Press Word.

Look for

  • The list is headed References, sorted by author, and each entry hangs its second line.
  • Choose IEEE instead, and the entries are numbered [1], [2] in the order given.
  • Check every source before you submit. An AI answer can include references that do not exist.
Handy extrasOnce you know the basics
  • Only part of an answer. Highlight the part you want, then press Word. Only what you highlighted goes in the file.
  • The whole conversation. Press More, then Whole conversation to Word…. Every answer goes in one file, each under the question that produced it.
  • One file, many answers. After you have saved a Word document, More offers Add to the last Word document…, so an afternoon of questions becomes one file instead of many.
  • Straight into a document you have open. Press More, then Copy for Word, and paste. Tables and headings arrive intact.

Why copy and paste is not enough

Pasting an answer gives you the words. It does not give you a document. A table arrives as lines of text with bars between them. An equation arrives as a row of symbols you cannot edit. A column of numbers arrives as a column of numbers, with none of the arithmetic that produced them.

Plenty of tools will hand you a Markdown file and leave the rest to you. The point of this one is the rest.

What it makes

Word

A proper document, and by default exactly the response: nothing added that it did not write. Headings that Word knows are headings, so a contents page is one click away. Tables with real rows and columns. Equations you can click into and edit, not pictures of equations. When you want a formal document, one setting adds a contents page and captions that number themselves, so adding a table halfway through renumbers everything after it.

A student writing up a chapter. Ask for the method, the results table and the equations. Choose the Thesis style once, then press Word. You get a double spaced document with numbered headings, a contents page, roman numerals on the front matter and page one starting at the first chapter. That is the formatting most people lose an afternoon to.

Excel

Not a picture of a table: a working spreadsheet. If the answer says the install cost is the supply cost times 0.45, the workbook contains that as a formula, and 0.45 sits on its own sheet next to the sentence it came from. Change it and every row updates.

Anyone building a costing. Ask for a cost model with quantities, rates and totals. Press Excel. Every total is a real formula, the assumptions are collected on one sheet, and the discount rate feeds a working NPV. Change one rate and the whole model moves, exactly as if you had built it yourself.

It also draws charts from the cells, so changing a number moves the chart. It reads dates as dates so they sort properly. It adds dropdown lists where a column has a fixed set of answers. And it can ask which columns to plot before drawing anything.

PowerPoint

One slide per heading, tables as slide tables, and a chart slide for any table worth plotting. Import your own template and it uses your colours and your layouts.

Someone with a meeting in an hour. Ask for the summary as short sections. Press More, then PowerPoint. You get a deck to edit rather than a blank one to fill.

PDF, CSV and the rest

PDF for sending. CSV for Numbers, Google Sheets or any statistics package. Markdown for Obsidian or plain notes. LaTeX with the equation source for Overleaf. HTML and RTF for everything else.

Things that save an afternoon

Copy with formatting. One button puts the answer on your clipboard with its tables and headings intact, so you can paste straight into a document you already have open. No file at all.

Export only part of it. Highlight the one table you wanted and export that. Or open the chooser, untick the sections you do not need, rename a heading, move one section above another, and save what is left.

See it before you save it. A preview shows the page at its real proportions with your margins, your typeface and your numbering, so you find out before the download rather than after.

Add to the last file. Six questions over an afternoon can become one workbook with six sheets, or one document with six sections, instead of six separate downloads.

The whole conversation. Every answer on the page, in order, each under the question that produced it.

Made to match how you write

Pick a style and everything follows: a thesis, an Elsevier manuscript, an IEEE paper, a Springer submission or a plain report. Each one sets the spacing, the margins, the heading numbers, the caption labels and the page numbers the way that venue asks for them.

Or bring your own. Import a Word template or a PowerPoint deck and your fonts, colours and layouts are used instead.

Submitting to a journal. Choose IEEE. Headings number in roman, tables read TABLE I, figures read Fig. 1, and the manuscript comes out single column and double spaced, which is what a reviewer wants to see.

Who it is for

It stays on your machine

The extension reads the answer you are looking at and writes a file. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no server to send it to. It asks for two permissions, both of them for remembering your own settings.

You can read the privacy policy in full. It is short, because there is not much to say.

What it costs

Flashcards, CSV, Markdown, LaTeX, HTML and RTF are free and always will be, with no limit.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF are free for the first twenty exports. There is no price for them yet and nothing to buy. When the twenty are used, the extension asks what you think it is worth.

If you need one of those formats before there is a way to pay, write to me and I will sort you out. That is a real offer, not a formality.

Who made it

Moshiur Rafi, University of Alberta.

aitoofficeee@gmail.com