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Guided projects where you build a useful Excel deliverable from start to finish — a dashboard, a tracker, an automated report — on realistic data.

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Build a Dashboard
Build: an interactive dashboard
Turn raw data into clear charts and KPIs that update automatically as the data changes.
PivotTablesChartsSlicers
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Prepare Data for AI
Build: an AI-ready dataset
Clean, structure and shape messy data so AI tools can actually use it — and you stay in control.
CleaningStructuringPrompting
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Automate a Monthly Report
Build: a one-click monthly report
Build a report that refreshes itself every month instead of rebuilding it by hand.
FormulasAutomationRefresh
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Build a Budget Tracker
Build: a budget tracker
Track income, expenses and variance against a budget, with clear visual signals.
SUMIFSCategoriesVariance
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Clean & Consolidate Data
Build: one clean consolidated table
Merge messy files from different sources into a single reliable dataset you can analyse.
CleaningConsolidationLookups
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KPI Dashboard with Alerts
Build: a KPI dashboard with alerts
Monitor key metrics with conditional formatting and alerts that flag problems instantly.
KPIsConditional formattingAlerts
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How projects work

Build it yourself, step by step.

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Start from a real brief

Every project opens with a realistic business problem and the file to work on.

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Build step by step

Follow guided steps and construct the actual deliverable yourself — no passive watching.

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Keep what you build

Finish with a working file you can reuse at work, plus the skills behind it.

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