How did you all learn & master Excel?

I would appreciate it if you could provide the best and most economically feasible options to learn Excel.

Not just YT university. Links to resources please!

When writing concise quarterly insights, what has helped you throughout your career and as you have evolved into your role?

Please answer as if you were learning & as the mentorship & guidance you needed starting your career. If you have any promo codes, too, I would appreciate them!

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Forget courses. Google EXACTLY what you need to do and then watch YouTube videos. Coursera has good overviews but honestly my greatest foundation was needing to do something, googling it, then messing up and watching YouTube tutorials until I mastered it

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^^^^This right here

YouTube, excel lady on IG (MissExcel), threads like this and Reddit. And a lot of failure. :)

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^^*preach

Also, there’s an “excel genius” bowl here

https://joinfishbowl.com/bowl_d6g451ti38

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I learned from having peers show me how to do certain functions, and then doing it 20 times over.

Coursera has a lot of good courses.

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ImO there is no mastering excel completely always something new especially of you get into VBS.

But honestly you can gain confidence in excel by playing around with data and tools and functions

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Start where you are. Google and find YouTube videos that are related to problems you’re trying to solve today. Learning about more advanced functions will be useless if you aren’t able to apply that knowledge right away. Learning to be proficient in excel will gradually happen over a long period of time as you are exposed to many different situations.

There are also numerous online courses that could help you get an handle on the basics. ChatGPT can be a helpful learning resource too.

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ChatGPT

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I learned Excel on the job. Exaggerated my level on my resume for my first job and worked "smarter not harder" by focusing on understanding the specific tasks I needed to complete, looking up solutions and formulas as they were needed and internalizing them as I go.

Learning the entire tool with no context is unsustainable and will burn you out and leave holes in your knowledge. Excel is a vast program and 99% of people do not use the majority of it, but every team and title's specific needs are different.

Also, I hate YouTube. Reddit and StackOverflow were much more helpfulfor me.

Google google google … that’s it. You could also take courses etc.

Coursera has great classes (they're free if you don't want a certificate, or your library may offer a free full access, or you can pay like $50/mo for access to the final exams and earn certificates.

They were awesome for helping me learn some more advanced stuff, although once I got a feel for what excel was capable of and learned the fundamentals, now I mostly just google the individual tasks I need it to perform.

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