Excel Essentials

Excel Essentials is a popular online course aimed at beginners or self-taught individuals in Excel who want to quickly become proficient in the program.

Course description

Excel Essentials is an online course that provides a solid foundation in Microsoft Excel for professional use and is designed for participants who want to develop essential skills and work more efficiently with data, calculations, and basic analysis. You will learn how to navigate the Excel interface, manage worksheets and workbooks, format data, and use fundamental formulas and functions, as well as create tables and charts to present information clearly and professionally. The course also introduces how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance your work in Excel by helping you automate tasks, make smarter decisions, and save time in your daily work. Through concise video lessons and practical exercises, you will gain hands-on experience and directly apply your knowledge. After completing the course, you will be able to use Excel confidently for reporting, administration, and basic analysis in a professional environment, supported by modern AI tools.

Information about the course

  • Online course with access to the learning platform for 12 months
  • Suitable for beginners and users who want to strengthen essential Excel skills
  • Video based learning combined with practical exercises
  • Self-paced studies
  • Certificate upon completion
  • 10 Continuing professional education hours

Introduction video

The goal of the course is to provide you with essential knowledge of Excel and a solid foundation for professional use. The course helps you understand how Excel works and how to use it efficiently in everyday tasks.

After the course, you will be able to work independently in Excel using basic formulas, functions, tables and charts. You will have the skills required to structure data and support routine reporting and administrative work.

The online course is a collaboration between FAR and Learnesy.

Chapters

Introduction: Welcome to Excel Essentials

  1. Get to know Excel
  2. Basic functionality
  3. Working with formulas
  4. Formatting
  5. Manage content and appearance
  6. General functionalities
  7. Functions
  8. Charts
  9. Data management
  10. PivotTables
  11. AI in Excel

Information

The course requires no prior knowledge of Excel and is suitable for participants who are new to the program or who want to refresh their basic skills. The training is delivered fully online and can be completed at your own pace during the access period. The course is recorded in modern versions of Excel and is intended for use in current Excel environments. The course is continuously maintained and updated by Learnesys own course developers.

This course is also available in Swedish: Excel Bas

Sample lesson

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