Business users have found many ways to take advantage of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini™, and Claude. These tools can help you get work done faster and more efficiently. This includes the authoring of content within word processing tools like Microsoft® Word, Google Docs™, and LibreOffice® Writer or desktop publishing tools such as Adobe® InDesign®, Microsoft Publisher®, and QuarkXPress. GenAI tools can help you brainstorm ideas to inspire your writing and can help you create and revise text and image content for a wide range of writing and documentation projects. And all these tasks can be accomplished using free online AI tools.

This course is designed for professionals in a variety of roles who currently create and edit documents to accomplish business tasks, and who want to enhance their use of word processing and desktop publishing applications by leveraging freely available generative AI tools. In this course, you will: select and use generative AI tools to generate ideas for your written documentation, use generative AI tools to develop text content for your word-processing documents, and use generative AI tools to produce images and design ideas you can use in your documents. This course assumes the use of Microsoft Word for document-related tasks, but other document programs like Google Docs should be sufficient. You also need access to free accounts for major genAI services like ChatGPT and Gemini.