Udemy
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
Subscribe
Turn what you know into an opportunity and reach millions around the world.
Learn More
Your cart is empty.
Keep shopping
Mastering Excel for Real Life
1 students

Mastering Excel for Real Life

Budgets, Lists, and Smarter Living
Created byMike Troise
Last updated 8/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Build a fully automated personal budget from scratch to track your income, expenses, and savings with confidence.
  • Design and build a dynamic "Personal Life Dashboard" that consolidates all your most important information into one easy-to-read screen.
  • Master the art of list-making by using Sort, Filter, and interactive Checklists to organize everything from to-do lists to vacation packing.
  • Create beautiful, story-telling charts and graphs to visualize your spending habits and track your progress towards personal goa
  • Automate decisions and analyze your data using essential functions like IF, SUM, AVERAGE, and COUNT to make smarter, data-driven choices in your daily life.

Course content

6 sections • 21 lectures • 49m total length

  • Module 1: Excel 101 - Your Friendly First Steps (No Fear Here!)1:49

    1. Introduction to the course and a sneak peek at the final "Life Dashboard" project.

    2. Dispelling the myth that Excel is only for "numbers people."

  • Lesson 1.2: The Grand Tour of Excel2:33

    1. Understanding the Ribbon, Tabs, Cells, Rows, and Columns.

    2. How to create, save, and open a workbook.

  • Lesson 1.3: Your First Data - Entering & Formatting3:36

    1. Typing text and numbers into cells.

    2. Basic formatting: Bold, italics, colors, and changing fonts to make your sheets readable.

    3. Working with multiple sheets (Tabs).

Requirements

  • A computer (a Windows PC or a Mac) capable of running Microsoft Excel.
  • Any version of Microsoft Excel from 2013 or newer. This includes Excel for Microsoft 365, Excel 2021, Excel 2019, and Excel 2016. The course is recorded on a modern version, but all the core concepts and projects will work beautifully on any of these versions.

Description

This course is designed to be practical, project-based, and appealing to absolute beginners, taking them from the very basics to a level of confidence where they can use Excel to organize and enhance their daily live

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for anyone who wants to stop being intimidated by Excel and start using it as a simple, powerful tool to organize their daily life. We created this course specifically for the absolute beginner, with no corporate jargon—just practical, real-world applications.

This course is perfect for you if you are:

  • An absolute beginner who has never or rarely opened Excel and finds the blank grid intimidating. We start from square one!

  • A student or young professional looking to get a firm grip on your personal budget, track your assignments, and manage your projects without needing complicated software.

  • The head of your household who wants one central place to manage the family budget, organize chore charts, plan vacations, or keep track of important lists.

  • Anyone feeling financially disorganized who wants a simple, step-by-step system to understand where their money is going and feel more in control of their savings.

  • A professional in a non-financial role (like marketing, HR, project management, or administration) who knows that having practical Excel skills will make you more efficient and valuable at work.

  • Someone who has tried to learn Excel before from other tutorials but got lost in complex functions that didn't apply to your everyday life. This course is different—it's all about you.

Course Structure:

The course is divided into 6 modules, each building upon the last. Every module includes short video lessons and a hands-on project to immediately apply what you've learned as you can use excel in the professional and personal setting.

Who this course is for:

  • Who is this course for? This course is designed for anyone who wants to stop being intimidated by Excel and start using it as a simple, powerful tool to organize their daily life. We created this course specifically for the absolute beginner, with no corporate jargon—just practical, real-world applications. This course is perfect for you if you are: An absolute beginner who has never or rarely opened Excel and finds the blank grid intimidating. We start from square one! A student or young professional looking to get a firm grip on your personal budget, track your assignments, and manage your projects without needing complicated software. The head of your household who wants one central place to manage the family budget, organize chore charts, plan vacations, or keep track of important lists. Anyone feeling financially disorganized who wants a simple, step-by-step system to understand where their money is going and feel more in control of their savings. A professional in a non-financial role (like marketing, HR, project management, or administration) who knows that having practical Excel skills will make you more efficient and valuable at work. Someone who has tried to learn Excel before from other tutorials but got lost in complex functions that didn't apply to your everyday life. This course is different—it's all about you.

Report abuse