Learn Excel — the spreadsheet skills your job actually rewards.

Strive builds an Excel course around the work you do — finance models, ops dashboards, marketing reports, or the weekly file that lands in your inbox. Lessons stream live with worked formula examples, and a daily recall queue keeps lookup syntax and shortcuts at your fingertips.

What you’ll learn

• Wire up VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, and know which to reach for when.
• Build pivot tables that answer a real business question, not a vanity one.
• Tame messy data with TEXT, IFS, dynamic arrays, and structured references.
• Set up data validation, conditional formatting, and protected ranges that survive other people.
• Pull, clean, and refresh source data with light Power Query.
• Audit a workbook you inherited without breaking it.
• Build a small ops or finance model you could actually hand to a colleague.

A typical Strive course on Excel

1. Cells, references, and the spreadsheet mental model4 lessons
2. Lookups — VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH and when to use which5 lessons
3. Pivot tables that answer real questions4 lessons
4. Dynamic arrays — FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE4 lessons
5. Cleaning messy data with TEXT and Power Query basics4 lessons
6. Data validation, conditional formatting, and workbook hygiene3 lessons
7. Build a small finance or ops model end-to-end3 lessons

Demonstration outline — your course is generated around your answers, so module count, depth, and difficulty will differ from this. Across the 7 modules above there are 27 lessons.

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