What a solution piece starts from
A solution piece starts from a workbook that is already broken in a specific way — columns that do not line up, an export that arrived with the wrong delimiters, a report that has to be rebuilt by hand every month — and works through to a finished result. It is the section where the artefact at the end matters more than the technique used to get there.
Two concept pages own the definitions these pieces depend on. Tidying a messy file is defined once in AI Excel data cleaning, and where your data goes when a tool touches it is defined in is it safe to upload Excel to AI. Articles here link to those pages rather than restating them, and spend their own space on the case in front of them.
Comparisons belong in this section too, with one rule attached: a comparison has to name the case where the other tool is the better fit. A table in which one column always wins tells the reader nothing they can act on, and it is the specific condition — the platform you already work in, the size of the file, who else has to open it — that decides which tool is right.
