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Basic Excel - Excel for beginners in 90 minutes (Udemy.com)

Basic Excel usage for beginners through a practical project. Functions, Formulas, Charts & Pivot Tables.

Created by: Andrew Pach

Last updated September 2026

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What you will learn

  • Navigate and use Excel confidently
  • Use common Excel shortcuts
  • Use essential formulas and functions
  • Create charts and simple Pivot Tables

How it compares

Against the other 459 rated Udemy courses in Office Productivity on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 30% of them
  • Reviews325#265 of 460 by number of reviews
  • Length1.6 hoursshorter than 82% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 93% of them

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Course Description

Learn basic Excel usage in 90 minutes!

  • Do you want to learn Excel quickly and practically (without prolonged explanations)?

  • Do you want to understand formulas, tables, charts, and Pivot Tables through practical examples instead of theory?

  • Do you want to become faster and more confident using Excel at work, in business, or for personal projects?


Practical:

This course is designed to teach you the most important Excel skills in a practical and approachable way. Instead of focusing on every possible feature (there is a lot of them on the Ribbon), we focus on the tools and workflows people use most often in real jobs and business environments.


Resources:

Throughout the course, we’ll work on realistic business reports for Little Leaf Garden Center while learning how Excel is actually used for reporting, analysis, organization, and decision-making.

The course is beginner-friendly and works great for students using Excel online, Excel 365 (with the Microsoft subscription plan), Excel 2021, Excel 2019, Excel 2016, and older versions of Excel.


Sections:

START & EXCEL BASICS – Learn the Excel interface, navigation, worksheets, workbooks, formatting basics, Flash Fill, and useful shortcuts.

WORKING WITH DATA – Learn how to enter, clean, sort, filter, and organize data correctly using realistic datasets.

FORMATTING & READABILITY – Improve spreadsheet readability using formatting, conditional formatting, alignment, spacing, and layout techniques.

TABLES & CALCULATIONS – Learn how Excel Tables work, create calculations, and use dropdown lists for cleaner data entry.

FORMULAS & FUNCTIONS – Understand formulas and learn important Excel functions like SUM, AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, IF, and XLOOKUP.

CHARTS & DATA VISUALIZATION – Create charts, format visuals, and turn spreadsheet data into clear business insights.

PIVOT TABLE PROJECT – Build a complete Pivot Table report using filters, grouping, slicers, and business analysis techniques.

FINALIZING & SHARING – Learn how to protect, share, print, and organize Excel workbooks professionally.


With the help of this course, you will:

  • Build a strong Excel foundation from scratch

  • Learn practical Excel skills used in real workplaces

  • Understand formulas and functions confidently

  • Work faster using useful Excel shortcuts

  • Create charts, tables, and Pivot Tables

  • Clean and organize messy datasets

  • Build professional-looking spreadsheets and reports

  • Improve your Excel workflow and productivity


Ready?

This course focuses on practical Excel usage instead of unnecessary theory. Every section builds naturally on the previous one so you can steadily improve your skills without feeling lost or overwhelmed. Resources are custom made by me personally (Yes, by Andrew Pach) for a smooth learning experience.

Enroll now and let’s get started!

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Instructor Details

Andrew Pach

Hi! My name is Andrzej Pach (but Andrew is easier to say ^^) and I spend my daily time with graphic design, presentations, motion & animation, typography, video editing, and online teaching. Most of my work is done in Adobe After Effects & Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 / 2021 / 365 and Camtasia so naturally, this is the software I want to teach about and share my experience with. I have completed more than 5000 graphic projects for clients, mostly including video animations like intros, outros, and transitions for various YouTube channels & marketers. On Fiverr alone (a freelancing website), I have more than 3500 reviews and 4k+ finished jobs. I would like to share with you the knowledge that I was able to "stack up" during the process. I am always willing to help people out by enhancing their brands and projects. 

  Who am I? 

I'm born in 1989, live in a small village in Poland, and graduated from my University in July 2014. A few years back, when I tried to find my "place" after getting hired to prepare a website, flyer, and business card for a local business in my area, I finally "felt it". Since then (2011) I have expanded my skills in this area by completing various graphic, website, and design-related projects. Places like the Warrior Forum, freelancing websites, and graphic contests across the web caught my interest and never let me go. I run my own company since April 2015.

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Reviews

4.4

325 ratings on Udemy

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By Shalom Jumaar on 9/21/2026

it was very informative

By Archana Landge on 9/7/2026

Great course with clear explanations and practical examples. The content was engaging and useful.

By Jake Guthrie on 9/4/2026

I used a lot of google spreadsheets before this and I am already adjusting pretty well to excel. Excel just seems like a more in depth spreadsheet essentially.

By Shaikh Samee Shaikh Khaja on 9/3/2026

This course is excellent!

By Christina Tolbert on 8/28/2026

talks to fast, hard to understand, moving too fast in the course

By Anushka Kamble on 8/19/2026

Good Experience & all topics explained very well.

By Jan Bukartyk on 8/14/2026

i liked that it was very short and i get to use it in an example

By Sundaralingam B on 8/6/2026

learn something new .

By Safiyyah Naidu on 7/28/2026

it was a good course i enjoyed it was not too much was clear for me to understand and go back if I need to recap the previous one was not good for me i did not enjoy was too many many things

By Paula Cedillo Gonzalez on 7/24/2026

This course is helpful

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Overall Score : 88 / 100