Mastering Excel for Beginners

Build a solid foundation in Excel to organize, analyze, and visualize data confidently. Learn essential formulas, data tools, and charting techniques used by professionals every day.

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About This Learning Path

This learning path is designed for professionals who want to gain complete confidence in Excel - the world’s most widely used business tool. You’ll begin by mastering the essentials of data entry, formatting, and navigation to improve speed and efficiency. Next, you’ll learn how to use formulas and functions to automate calculations, analyze datasets, and apply logical reasoning in your models. You’ll progress to manipulating text, dates, and numbers, creating lookup tables, and summarizing data dynamically using PivotTables. Then, you’ll explore core data analysis and visualization skills, from applying basic statistics to building interactive charts and dashboards. Through practical projects, you’ll apply these techniques to realistic business scenarios such as optimizing costs, improving performance, and structuring data for better decision-making. By the end of this path, you’ll have the hands-on skills to manage data efficiently, create professional reports, and transform raw numbers into clear insights using Excel.

What You'll Learn

Navigate Excel efficiently using time-saving shortcuts and structured workbook design.

Use formulas and functions to perform calculations, automate tasks, and clean data.

Manipulate text, time, and date data to prepare datasets for analysis.

Apply lookups, database functions, and PivotTables to organize and summarize information.

Build charts, dashboards, and visual reports that communicate insights effectively.

Use descriptive statistics to identify trends, patterns, and correlations in business data.

Apply Excel to real-world projects like optimizing performance, controlling costs, and structuring data for growth.

Skills You'll Gain

Excel formulas
Data formatting
PivotTables
Charts & dashboards
Lookup functions
Data analysis
Statistics basics
Data organization
Automation techniques
Reporting & visualization

Curriculum

Data Manipulation and Formatting
Course
Course
Insert, edit, delete and sort data, perform lightning-fast navigation and radically improve your productivity in Excel with this course.
Green Clock
3 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Beginner
Green Certificate
2 CPE / CPD Credits
Use data effectively with organized spreadsheets
Project
Project
In this project, you'll help a clothing retailer that has not developed good practices in storing and structuring their data. You'll develop Excel sheets that store the company's data in an organized manner, helping the company derive insights on revenues and profits that are currently being missed.
Green Clock
2 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Intermediate
Green Certificate
2 CPE / CPD Credits
Control costs with frequently changing data
Project
Project
In this project, you'll help a trucking company who can conduct basic Excel analysis, but struggles to adapt when the data changes. You'll develop Excel models that will update when new data arrives or existing data changes, helping the company adapt to changes in the factors affecting costs.
Green Clock
2 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Intermediate
Green Certificate
2 CPE / CPD Credits
Introducing Statistics
Course
Course
Simple statistics can be used to increase your understanding of your business, thereby improving performance. They're also much easier than you think!
Green Clock
2 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Intermediate
Green Certificate
1 CPE / CPD Credits
Charts in Depth
Course
Course
Creating charts is a very common task in Excel. This course shows you how to create, format and edit charts so that they are easy to understand and look professional.
Green Clock
2 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Beginner
Green Certificate
1 CPE / CPD Credits
Build Your First Dashboard
Course
Course
Dashboards are a very popular business tool for summarising and garnering insights from data. In this course, we'll build a simple sales dashboard from scratch in Excel.
Green Clock
2 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Intermediate
Green Certificate
2 CPE / CPD Credits
Formulas and Functions
Course
Course
This course introduces the most useful of Excel's built-in arithmetic and logical functions. You also learn how to write, manipulate and audit your own formulas.
Green Clock
4 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Beginner
Green Certificate
3 CPE / CPD Credits
Finance Functions
Course
Course
Excel is commonly used by finance professionals to evaluate investment returns. This course introduces important finance functions you can use for this purpose, including Internal Rate of Return and Net Present Value.
Green Clock
1 Hour
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Intermediate
Green Certificate
1 CPE / CPD Credits
Identify high-yield locations for retail outlets
Project
Project
In this project, you'll help a retailer looking to expand their operations but who isn't sure where to go. You'll use Excel to identify the optimal locations for new stores, helping the company grow stronger and faster.
Green Clock
2 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Intermediate
Green Certificate
2 CPE / CPD Credits
Text, Time, and Dates
Course
Course
Excel has a host of functions that help manipulate these 3 data types. In this course, we'll learn how to clean, chop and manipulate text entries and how to perform time-series analysis on a dataset for an online start-up.
Green Clock
3 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Intermediate
Green Certificate
2 CPE / CPD Credits
Optimize company revenue with cost analysis
Project
Project
Help a startup catering company that has grown quickly in its first year, but can't pinpoint why. You'll use Excel to analyze their cost trends and determine what spending items actually boost revenue - helping the company mature and grow steadily in the future.
Green Clock
2 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Intermediate
Green Certificate
2 CPE / CPD Credits
Lookups and Database Functions
Course
Course
Lookup functions help you quickly find records in large datasets. Learn how to use these functions, create dropdown lists, build search panels and much more in this course.
Green Clock
3 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Intermediate
Green Certificate
2 CPE / CPD Credits
Pivot Tables
Course
Course
Pivot Tables allow you to search, filter and sort data very quickly, making them an essential data analysis tool in Excel
Green Clock
3 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Intermediate
Green Certificate
2 CPE / CPD Credits
Boost productivity by optimizing compensation
Project
Project
In this project, you'll help a solar panel manufacturer that's unable to motivate their salespeople to perform effectively. You'll use Excel to analyze their existing sales data and identify a compensation structure that delivers optimal performance for the sales department.
Green Clock
2 Hours
Green Beginner LevelGreen Intermediate LevelGreen Advanced Level
Intermediate
Green Certificate
2 CPE / CPD Credits

Curriculum

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What's Included?

25 Hours
14 Courses
Language:
English
Course Level:
Beginner
22.5 CPE & CPD Credits

$295.00

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