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

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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. Read more...

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