Microsoft Excel 365 - Basic & Advanced

Bottom Line

A genuinely thorough Excel course that earns its "basic to advanced" label—GoSkills packs PivotTables, Power Query, and modern functions like XLOOKUP into a CPD-accredited 26-hour build that actually respects your time.

📊 Course Snapshot

📝 Editorial Review

Let me be honest about something: most "basic to advanced" courses are a mess. They're junk drawers—someone kept adding modules until the course weighed 80 hours and the student gave up somewhere around VLOOKUP. GoSkills' Microsoft Excel 365 – Basic & Advanced is not that course. At 26 hours, it's disciplined. And discipline in course design is rarer than it should be.

The curriculum earns its CPD accreditation by being specific about outcomes. You're not just "learning Excel"—you're building navigation habits, writing formulas that hold up under real data, cleaning messy imports with Power Query, and eventually recording macros to stop doing the same thing by hand every Monday morning. That's a real Monday-morning plan. The kind that actually changes how someone spends their Tuesday.

What I genuinely appreciate—and I don't say this about many courses—is the inclusion of modern Excel functions. XLOOKUP, Dynamic Arrays, and LET aren't bonus content here; they're integrated. That matters because a lot of Excel courses are quietly teaching 2013 Excel in a 2024 world. If your organization runs Microsoft 365, you have access to these tools right now, and this course shows you how to use them. That's decision-grade curriculum design.

The 4.7 rating across 3,135 reviews is a meaningful signal—not a vanity number. That's enough volume to smooth out outliers. And the fact that the rating holds that high suggests the course isn't front-loading its best content and trailing off. (I've seen that pattern destroy completion rates. It's not pretty.)

One honest caveat: this requires a GoSkills subscription, not a one-time purchase. That's worth knowing before you commit. If you're already subscribed—or if you're a team lead buying access for a group—it's an easy yes. If you're evaluating a single purchase, factor in whether the broader GoSkills library justifies the subscription cost for your situation. I'm not in your business, so treat this as a starting point.

The realistic learner here is someone who opens Excel regularly, feels vaguely competent, and suspects they're doing things the slow way. This course is built for that person. It meets them where they are and moves them somewhere useful.

⏱️ Real Time Investment

The 26-hour figure covers video content. Add practice time—especially for PivotTables, Power Query, and macros, which reward repetition—and you're realistically looking at 40 to 45 hours before the skills feel automatic. Budget extra time if you're brand new to spreadsheets. But here's the thing: that practice time is where the learning actually happens.

🎯 Skills You'll Build