Complete Excel for Beginners: From Basics to Copilot 2026
Complete Excel for Beginners: From Basics to Copilot 2026, Start from zero: Excel basics, functions, PivotTables & charts—then Copilot for data analysis & business reporting.
Course Description
1. Excel Fundamentals You Still Must Master in the Age of AI
This course builds a strong foundation in Excel Fundamentals that remain essential even in today’s AI-driven workplace. You will master Excel’s interface, core tools, data entry, formatting, foundational formulas and functions, PivotTables, charts, and practical data management techniques—organized in a clear progression designed for both beginners and working professionals.
2. Use Copilot for Advanced Data Analysis, Insight Generation, and Strategic Reporting
With Microsoft Copilot, you will learn to perform high-level data analysis, extract meaningful insights, and automate strategy-focused reporting with impressive accuracy and speed. Copilot enables you to generate formulas, transform and clean datasets, analyze trends, and draft business reports directly from your data. Regardless of UI variations across Microsoft 365 plans, you will master Copilot’s core principles, prompt structures, and analytical reasoning to apply it effectively in any environment.
3. 100% Hands-On, Real-World Excel Missions
Every lesson is grounded in real business scenarios, providing a fully hands-on learning environment. You will practice cleaning data, preparing reports, analyzing patterns, and producing actionable insights through guided exercises and mission-based tasks that mirror actual workplace challenges. Your skills progress naturally as each section builds on the previous one.
4. Learn Excel as a Complete End-to-End Workflow
Rather than teaching isolated features, this course follows the full data workflow used in modern organizations: Data Entry → Organization and Structuring → Calculation and Processing → Summary and Analysis → Insight Generation with Copilot → Strategic Report Completion with Copilot. By understanding this complete pipeline, you will learn how Excel and Copilot work together across the entire data lifecycle, enabling you to support real-world decision-making and deliver professional-grade reports with confidence.
