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Excel for beginners
New to Excel? This beginner Excel course starts at the very beginning: what cells, rows and columns are, how to enter data, and how to write your first formula. Then it builds, one short lesson at a time, to the functions people use every day at work. You practise each step in a real spreadsheet and get instant feedback, so nothing is left to guesswork.
Starts from zero
No jargon and no assumed knowledge. The first lesson shows you around the screen before you type anything.
Learn by doing
Beginners learn Excel fastest by trying things. Every lesson ends with small tasks you complete in a live sheet.
Mistakes are part of it
When an answer is wrong you see which part, and hints lead you to the fix. Each lesson lists the mistakes beginners make most.
Builds real habits
You learn the keyboard shortcuts and good habits, like locking references with $, from day one.
Work through these lessons in order. Each one takes about 15 minutes and builds on the one before. All of them are free.
By the end of the beginner path you can build a simple, correct spreadsheet on your own:
The beginner path is about five hours of practice. Spread over two or three weeks, at 15 to 30 minutes a day, that is enough to feel comfortable with the basics. Getting fast takes regular practice after that, which the daily challenge and shortcut drill are built for.
Once these feel easy, move on to INDEX and MATCH, text and date functions, then Excel Tables, PivotTables and charts. If you are preparing for a job, take the Excel interview mock test to see where you stand.
No. Most people can learn the basics in a few hours of practice. It feels hard when you only watch someone else do it; it gets easy once you type the formulas yourself.
Start with how cells, rows and columns work and how to enter data. Then learn simple formulas, SUM and AutoSum, relative and absolute references, and IF. Lookups such as VLOOKUP or XLOOKUP come next.
Yes. Every lesson on the beginner path is free, with no sign-up needed.
Yes. The lessons run in a spreadsheet in your browser, and what you learn works the same way in Microsoft Excel.
Practise a little every day instead of all at once, try every task before looking at hints, and learn the keyboard shortcuts early. Redo tasks you got wrong a few days later.
Start your first lesson now. No sign-up needed.
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