12 Best Free Websites to learn Microsoft Excel (2024)

Microsoft Excel is one of the most used data analysis programs and most popular and widely used spreadsheet software. In fact, you will hardly find a business that does not use Excel.

In 2019, market research indicated that approximately 54% of businesses use Excel — and this does not include other spreadsheet applications. More than 2 billion people across the globe use spreadsheet technologies such as Excel and Google Sheets. Organizations hire candidates with Excel skills because spreadsheet usage is considered standard for daily business analytics (Mooc Blog Team).

Keeping the above in mind, I have listed 12 free websites where one can start learning Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Excel Help Centre is Microsoft official website that has tutorials and training videos.

Chandoo.org has been created by Purna Duggirala, also known by his nickname, Chandoo, a legend in the Excel community. His site contains excel tips, charting tutorials, visualization ideas, downloadable excel tutorials. It has 500+ tutorials, examples and downloadable workbooks.

TrumpEXCEL created by Sumit Bansal gives the learner access to a completely FREE Online Excel Training (6 modules consisting of 26 video lessons with 12+ hours of learning). No enrolment is needed. The website also has free excel templates and blog containing Excel tips.

Udemy has both free and paid Excel courses. Below are the links to some good free courses.

Useful Excel for Beginners created by Dinesh Natarajan Mohan— 4.5 (53,429 ratings) 506,470 students (as of 8th Nov. 2022)

Excel Quick Start Tutorial : 36 Minutes to Learn the Basics created by Jeff Knowlton — 4.5 out of 54.5 (19,250 ratings) 131,666 students (as of 8th Nov. 2022)

MS Excel — From 0 to Working Professional in 1 hour created by Jason Zhang — 4.5 out of 54.5 (5,964 ratings) 75,245 students (as of 8th Nov. 2022)

www.mygreatlearning.com offers Excel for Beginners course. This course is a self-paced 2-hour free online excel course designed for beginners. It requires enrolment, provides free access lifetime, and also a certificate on completion.

Simplilearn offers Introduction to MS Excel course. This course is a self -paced 7-hour free online excel course designed for beginners. It requires enrolment, provides 90 days of access, also a certificate on completion.

W3Schools has Excel tutorials, examples, and test exercises. Like W3Resource, the learner can track his/her progress with the free “My Learning” program at W3Schools. However, this is an optional feature. One can study W3Schools without using My Learning.

excel-easy.com offer a tutorial for beginners on how to use Excel and has 300 examples.

Coursera website offers several free courses on Excel. Below are links to some of them.

Excel Skills for Business Specialization is business-focused Excel course from Macquarie University.

Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel is an introductory course in the use of Excel from Rice University and is designed to give you a working knowledge of Excel with the aim of getting to use it for more advance topics in Business Statistics later. Note:- This course is part of the Business Statistics and Analysis Specialization.

Created as part of the University of Reddit course, Excel Exposure is a self-paced online Excel training course. The site has a recommended Lesson Guide for watching the videos and tutorials, and many video lessons, tutorials and information to help improve one’s Excel skills.

EdX has has both free and paid Excel courses. Below are the links to some good free courses.

Analyzing Data with Excel — Created by IBM, this course covers the basic workings and key features of Excel to help students analyze their data. The audit track is free.

Excel for Everyone: Core Foundations — Created by University of British Columbia, this course covers foundational knowledge of Excel including data wrangling, spreadsheet management, and basic data analysis. The audit track is free.

GCF LearnFree.org offers access to a 29 tutorials and four extras and and Excel to test your knowledge.

Learning Excel will pay dividends on your path to breaking into data analysis. Hope, these free resources will help you get started on learning and applying Excel. If you want to become a master at anything in life, then you need to practice. The same applies to mastering Excel. “Practice Makes Perfect!”

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Biography: Rupa Mahanti is a consultant, researcher, speaker, data enthusiast and author. She has extensive experience and expertise in different information management disciplines, business process improvement, regulatory reporting, and more. Rupa has written many research articles on quality management, Six Sigma, information management, software engineering, environmental management, compliance, simulation, and modelling. She is the author of several books: Data Quality: Dimensions, Measurement, Strategy, Management and Governance (ASQ Quality Press), Data Governance and Compliance: Evolving to Our Current High Stakes Environment (Springer), Data Governance and Data Management: Contextualizing Data Governance Drivers, Technologies, and Tools (Springer), Data Governance Success: Growing and Sustaining Data Governance (Springer), How Data can Manage Global Pandemics: Analysing and Understanding COVID-19 (Routledge) and Data Humour.