Learn how to use Excel to automate complex tasks and more with this $9 course

Learn how to make your spreadsheets do more.
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Microsoft Excel can do a lot of things. It can organize and manipulate data, execute math functions, create professional reports, and do a bunch of administrative tasks. But what it can't do is send a text message, like Kelly Rowland did in the iconic "Dilemma" music video.

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Before you make the same mistake of composing an SMS on a spreadsheet, educate yourself on all the things Excel can actually do with the Excel for beginners course. It's not merely a primer to the fundamental functions of Excel; it's a crash course in Excel's scripting language, VBA, that will help you automate complex tasks with just a little bit of programming.

Did the word "programming" scare you? Relax, this course caters to newbies like you. You'll receive lifetime access to ten different lessons and one full hour of content that will teach you how to crunch complex numbers with just the push of a button. You'll discover useful skills like how to use ranges and worksheets to manipulate data, convert a list of phone numbers into a standard format, record action sequences into macros, and more.

Typically $99, this course is available for only $9. Go ahead, buy it for the entire office. We'll wait.

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