Microsoft 365 Essential Skills: Practical Office Training for Work
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In this completely revised and updated Microsoft 365 Essential Skills course, I share the real-world Microsoft Office skills people need to work confidently and productively in today’s digital workplace.
As a Microsoft Certified Trainer with years of experience helping professionals and students, I show you how to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and Copilot effectively, with practical examples and guided exercises you can apply immediately.
What you’ll learn:
• Confidently use all the core Microsoft 365 Office apps in the workplace
• Learn the skills employers expect in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams
• Apply best practices for creating documents, managing data, and communicating effectively
• Build confidence through practice and interactive role play activities
• Use Copilot to enhance productivity and creativity with AI
Excel Productivity Hacks for Everyday Work
If you already use Microsoft Excel but feel there must be quicker, easier ways to handle everyday tasks, this course is for you.
This is a practical Excel skills upgrade course, focused entirely on shortcuts, tips, and techniques that help you work faster, reduce frustration, and use Excel more confidently in real workplace scenarios.
This is not a beginner course and it does not focus on theory. Instead, each lesson covers one specific Excel skill that you can apply immediately.
What this course focuses on
Every tutorial in this course is:
- Short and to the point
- Based on real-world Excel use
- Designed to save you time or prevent common mistakes
There are no filler lessons, and this course deliberately avoids deep explanations of how functions work behind the scenes. The emphasis is on how to get results quickly, not on memorising features.
Although Microsoft 365 is used throughout, many of the techniques demonstrated will also work in older versions of Excel.
Transform the way you work with Microsoft 365 and AI.
ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot are changing how professionals create, communicate, and collaborate. But how do you use them effectively — and safely — in real-world Microsoft 365 workflows?
In this hands-on course, you’ll learn how to combine ChatGPT’s creativity and flexibility with Microsoft Copilot’s built-in power to save hours every week across Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.
You’ll learn from a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with over 8,700 students and a 4.6+ instructor rating, known for practical, clear, and engaging instruction.
What You’ll Learn
- How to use ChatGPT and Copilot together for maximum productivity
- Time-saving prompt techniques for business writing, analysis, and reporting
- Automating repetitive work in Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams
- Generating formulas, VBA snippets, and summaries with ChatGPT
- Comparing ChatGPT vs Copilot — and knowing when to use each
- Setting up safe and responsible AI workflows in your Microsoft 365 environment
- Real-world examples: meeting notes, reports, dashboards, and templates
Excel Basics
Learn the basic concepts of spreadsheet design, formulas and functions that will enable you to build fully working models using the world’s most popular spreadsheet software.
Build a strong foundation in spreadsheet software with this Excel beginner’s course taught by a Microsoft Certified Trainer
- · Workbooks and Worksheets
- · Formulas and Functions
- · Sorting, Filtering and Tables
- · Charts and Graphs
- · Page Layout, Formatting and Printing
A Powerful Skill Employers Want
Learning to use Excel puts you in a very strong position in the workplace. Employers in many different fields need people who are skilled at using the immense power of Excel to manipulate data.
When you understand the basics you can move on to more advanced topics like data analysis, using Excel for forecasting, building financial models and summarizing business activity via a dashboard.