9 Best Online Excel Courses of 2026

Excel Campus is the most complete package here for someone who uses Excel every day at work and wants to get faster across the board. The Excel Campus membership is described as a beginner-to-advanced program, and it includes an All Access Pass to 12 in-depth courses on topics such as Modern Formulas, Pivot Tables, Power Query, VBA, Power Automate and Power BI. Members also get monthly live Q&A sessions with recordings, a community forum, weekly challenges, downloadable practice files and a certificate of completion. The founder, Jon Acampora, says he spent over a decade using Excel in corporate roles and holds Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award. Pricing in November 2026 was $37 a month (regular $49), or $370 a year (regular $490), and the page states the discounted rate is locked in. An Employer Reimbursement Toolkit helps you ask your company to pay. The tradeoff is that it is a subscription, and the certificate shows completion rather than a passed exam.

Exceljet sells focused video courses that you buy once and keep. The training page lists nine courses: Excel 101 with 28 videos for $19, Core Excel with 125 videos for $99, Core Pivot for $79, Core Formula with 117 videos for $199, Dynamic Array Formulas for $79, Core Charts for $89, and shorter courses on shortcuts, tables and conditional formatting. Every video comes with a practice worksheet, access does not expire, and a personal login also removes ads from the large free library of function and formula pages on the site. Exceljet offers a 30-day full refund and special pricing for students, seniors and nonprofits on request. For teams, Bundle 4 plus a 10-user pack covers the full library for up to 12 people at $745 total. The limits are scope and support: the catalog stops at formulas, pivots, charts and tables, so there is no Power Query, VBA or Power BI training, no live help and no certificate mentioned.

Coursera is the place to go if you want a university name on your Excel certificate. Macquarie University's Excel Skills for Business Specialization has four courses: Essentials (26 hours), Intermediate I (28 hours), Intermediate II (28 hours) and Advanced (25 hours). Coursera lists 728,029 learners already enrolled, a 4.9 average from 64,270 reviews, and a pace of about 3 months at 10 hours a week. Topics run from the interface and formatting through lookups, data validation, charts, dashboards and macros. You can enroll for free, and the specialization is included with Coursera Plus, which costs $59 a month after a 7-day free trial or $239.40 for the first year on an offer ending November 30, 2026 (regular $399). Single courses and programs run $49 to $79 a month. The certificate is shareable on LinkedIn. The downside is time: it is a structured syllabus, so workers who only need one skill this week will find Exceljet or Excel Campus faster.

Corporate Finance Institute teaches Excel the way finance and analyst teams use it. Its Excel Skills for Professionals Specialization has 5 courses, 332 lessons and 20+ interactive exercises, and ends with a certificate to verify your skills; CFI shows a 4.8 rating from 6,371 ratings. Individual courses include Excel Fundamentals: Formulas for Finance, a 3 hour 30 minute course worth 3.5 NASBA CPE credits that covers rounding, COUNTIF, SUMIF, SUMIFS and lookups with interactive exercises, plus Advanced Excel Formulas and Functions and Excel Data Preparation and Visualization. The specialization is included in the Self-Study plan, priced at $372.75 a year on a November 2026 offer (regular $497), which also unlocks every other CFI course and certification, including FMVA. Some lessons are free previews. The catch is cost and focus: there is no monthly plan at that tier, and the finance framing is more than an office worker who mainly builds lists and reports needs.

Chandoo's Excel School is a one-payment program aimed at managers and analysts who spend their day turning data into reports. The base plan, $147 in November 2026 (regular $199), has 6 modules of advanced lessons with 60 videos, 40+ example workbooks, a formula cheat sheet and a shortcuts poster. The curriculum starts with data: Power Query for clean-up and reshaping, tables and structured references, relationships and data models. It then moves to formulas such as IFS, COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, VLOOKUP and INDEX+MATCH, and to pivot tables with slicers and timelines. The $247 Excel School Dashboards plan (regular $399) adds a dashboards module, for 70 videos and 50+ workbooks in total. Videos can be downloaded in HD, and a 30-day money-back guarantee applies. The instructor says he has taught more than 20,000 people. Access lasts 2 years rather than life, and the page does not mention a certificate.

Udemy is a marketplace, so you buy one course from one instructor rather than a curated Excel program. That makes it the cheapest way to try a structured course: the US App Store listing shows single courses at $9.99, and purchased courses come with lifetime access for as long as they are available. Udemy also sells a Personal Plan subscription that unlocks unlimited access to top-rated courses plus 600+ skill assessments and 180+ in-course lab workspaces. Every section includes a quiz, exercise or project, you can download lessons for offline study, and Udemy lists certification prep for Microsoft among others. The weakness is consistency: quality and update schedules vary by instructor, so read the syllabus and recent reviews before buying. Udemy's site did not load for our checker from Poland, so the price comes from the US App Store in-app list. Workers who want a single coherent path from basics to automation will get more from Excel Campus or Coursera.

LinkedIn Learning suits professionals who want a large Excel catalog and a certificate that lands on their LinkedIn profile. Its Microsoft Excel topic page returns 6,629 results, from Excel Tips Weekly (1,941,787 viewers) and Excel: You Can Do This (1,306,604 viewers) to Excel Essential Training (Microsoft 365) by Leila Gharani, a 4 hour 32 minute course released on June 5, 2026. The same subscription covers Power BI, Copilot and other Microsoft 365 courses, which helps if Excel is one of several tools you use at work. The app offers video, audio and bite-sized formats, offline downloads and recommendations based on your skills and goals. LinkedIn's own pricing page did not show US dollars to us, so the price is the US App Store in-app Learning Monthly Subscription at $39.99. At that price it is one of the more expensive monthly options here, and with thousands of courses you will need to pick your own sequence.

Maven Analytics fits workers who see Excel as the first step toward a data role. The free plan includes a personal learning plan, practice tool assessments and a public project portfolio. Pro adds live expert-led workshops, every course, path and project, graded skills assessments and badges; in November 2026 a Black Friday offer priced the first year at $239 for new subscribers, renewing at $399 a year. Teams cost $39 per seat per month billed yearly with a 2-seat minimum, and Enterprise + Live includes an instructor-led Excel track. Its Microsoft Excel Foundations course lists 5 course hours, 2 skills assessments and 9 CPE credits, with projects on datasets such as flight delays and sales pipelines, covering formulas, pivot tables and charts. When we checked, that course page was marked coming soon, so confirm availability before paying. Excel is one subject among Power BI, SQL and AI here, so pure Excel learners get more depth from Excel Campus or Chandoo.

DataCamp is a data science platform first, but its app listing names Excel and Google Sheets among the tools you can use to build data analysis skills, next to Power BI, Python and SQL. All opening course chapters are free, which lets you test the interactive format before paying, and the US App Store lists a Standard Yearly Subscription at $164.99, about $13.75 a month, the lowest yearly subscription price on this list. That makes it a sensible pick for workers who already know Excel basics and want to move toward analysis with code. The weak points matter for this list: Excel is a small slice of the catalog, and DataCamp's own Excel course pages blocked our checker, so we could only use the app listing for facts and could not confirm the number of Excel courses or any Excel certificate. Office workers who mainly need formulas, pivots and Power Query get far more Excel depth from Excel Campus, Exceljet or Chandoo.