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Wise Owl's Microsoft Excel Training Courses

Shaun (one of our 7 Wise Owl trainers)

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Benefits of our Excel training

Not sure if we deserve all the reviews you can see on this site? Here are some of the things we do (very) differently to earn them.

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Friendly and professional training ... guaranteeed▼

How can any training company guarantee the quality of their courses? Here's how:

We limit our courses to no more than 6 people per class.
Unlike almost every other computer training company, we never subcontract or use freelancers - here's why this matters.

The best courseware in the industry? See for yourself▼

Our course manuals and exercises are by some way the best in the computer training industry. Fortunately you don't have to take our word for this - you can see for yourself:

See our Excel Introduction courseware
See our Excel Intermediate courseware
See our Excel Advanced courseware
See our Excel Business Modelling courseware
See our Excel VBA macros courseware
See our Advanced VBA courseware
See our Excel exercises
See our Excel Visual Basic exercises
See our Office Scripts exercises

Genuine integrity - and good manners▼

Our values are simple - we treat people as we would like to be treated ourselves. So:

We will - almost never - cancel courses. To see what "almost never" means see our no cancel guarantee.
There's nothing worse than being pestered, so we don't pester people. Ever.
It's dangerous to be sanctimionius, but we can see no possible benefit that tobacco and gambling companies bring to the world (and quite a lot of harm), so we choose not to work for them. Sorry.

You can see more on our corporate values here.

Innovative online training platform▼

We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:

Delegates use Remote Desktop to connect to our machines, so our trainers can see everyone's screens at all time.
We arrange (without charge) a half-hour pre-course check for each online delegate before courses, to ensure that they everyone will be able to join the course seamlessly when it begins.
As well as providing a PDF of the manual and exercises for each online course delegate we will (again without charge) also post this out to each person a few days before if required.

Choose a specific course, or stay on this page to see all of our Excel training.

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Our current Microsoft Excel scheduled courses

Can't see the dates/course type that you want? Create your own onsite course (and tailor the content too!).

Course	Dates	Venue/type	Duration	Price	Times
We don't have any scheduled courses for this combination of criteria: please try different options.
Excel Advanced	Thu/Fri 12-13 June 2025 12-13 Jun	Online	2 days	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel VBA macros	Thu/Fri 12-13 June 2025 12-13 Jun	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Introduction	Monday 16 June 2025 16 Jun	Online	1 day	£525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Intermediate	Wednesday 25 June 2025 25 Jun	Online	1 day	£525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Introduction	Wednesday 02 July 2025 02 Jul	Online	1 day	£525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Advanced	Thu/Fri 10-11 July 2025 10-11 Jul	Online	2 days	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel VBA macros	Thu/Fri 10-11 July 2025 10-11 Jul	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Intermediate	Thursday 24 July 2025 24 Jul	Online	1 day	£525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Introduction	Wednesday 30 July 2025 30 Jul	Online	1 day	£525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced VBA	Mon/Tue 04-05 August 2025 04-05 Aug	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Business Modelling	Tue/Wed 05-06 August 2025 05-06 Aug	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Advanced	Wed/Thu 06-07 August 2025 06-07 Aug	Online	2 days	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel VBA macros	Mon/Tue 11-12 August 2025 11-12 Aug	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Intermediate	Wednesday 20 August 2025 20 Aug	Online	1 day	£525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Advanced	Mon/Tue 01-02 September 2025 01-02 Sep	Manchester	2 days	£950.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Business Modelling	Thu/Fri 04-05 September 2025 04-05 Sep	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel VBA macros	Mon/Tue 08-09 September 2025 08-09 Sep	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Introduction	Monday 22 September 2025 22 Sep	Manchester	1 day	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Intermediate	Monday 22 September 2025 22 Sep	Manchester	1 day	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Intermediate	Thursday 25 September 2025 25 Sep	Online	1 day	£525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Business Modelling	Wed/Thu 01-02 October 2025 01-02 Oct	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced VBA	Wed/Thu 01-02 October 2025 01-02 Oct	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Advanced	Thu/Fri 02-03 October 2025 02-03 Oct	Manchester	2 days	£950.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Introduction	Monday 06 October 2025 06 Oct	Online	1 day	£525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel VBA macros	Thu/Fri 09-10 October 2025 09-10 Oct	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Advanced	Wed/Thu 15-16 October 2025 15-16 Oct	Online	2 days	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Introduction	Friday 24 October 2025 24 Oct	Manchester	1 day	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Intermediate	Friday 24 October 2025 24 Oct	Manchester	1 day	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Intermediate	Monday 27 October 2025 27 Oct	Online	1 day	£525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Advanced	Mon/Tue 03-04 November 2025 03-04 Nov	Manchester	2 days	£950.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Business Modelling	Tue/Wed 04-05 November 2025 04-05 Nov	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Introduction	Thursday 06 November 2025 06 Nov	Online	1 day	£525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel VBA macros	Mon/Tue 10-11 November 2025 10-11 Nov	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Advanced	Wed/Thu 12-13 November 2025 12-13 Nov	Online	2 days	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Intermediate	Monday 24 November 2025 24 Nov	Online	1 day	£525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Introduction	Friday 28 November 2025 28 Nov	Manchester	1 day	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Intermediate	Friday 28 November 2025 28 Nov	Manchester	1 day	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced VBA	Mon/Tue 01-02 December 2025 01-02 Dec	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Advanced	Wed/Thu 03-04 December 2025 03-04 Dec	Online	2 days	£725.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel Business Modelling	Thu/Fri 04-05 December 2025 04-05 Dec	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Excel VBA macros	Tue/Wed 09-10 December 2025 09-10 Dec	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Our Microsoft Excel classroom training venues

What other people have said about our Excel training

Here are some comments we've received about our Excel + training. You can see all of our 471 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"The tutor was lovely and very friendly. The course covered all topics but also was an opportunity to ask questions and look at some areas more than others."

Jess Lewis

Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA)

"I had a clear understanding of all the sections covered, as it was very well explained. An informative and well presented course."

Barbara Colquhoun

Syntor Fine Chemicals Ltd / Actylis

"This was more of a refresher course for me after not having used Excel in a decade and yet I honestly learned a lot. Great course and delivery as always :)"

Izzy Dhamdusdi

Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA)

"All good! I found Wise Owl through a google search about 10 years ago, but I can't remember what I searched for! We used you to deliver some training back then and came back to you this time."

Joanne Elcock

Rochdale BC

"Very good training session, the trainer went the extra mile to make sure I took the maximum potential from the course. Highly recommend."

Christopher Parratt

Network Plus

"Very informative course with a great teacher. Would recommend to anyone starting out!"

Charlotte Turner

Kepak Group

About our Excel training

We've been teaching Excel since the early days (anyone remember Excel 4.0?), and consider ourselves gurus! There's a lot you can learn, so we've divided our training into three areas: standard courses, VBA (macros) and Office Scripts courses.

Our standard Excel courses

We run 4 standard Excel courses, covering the needs of everyone from beginners to advanced users:

Course	Length	Notes
Introduction to Excel	1 day	This is aimed at beginners: it shows how to create, format and print basic worksheets, and how to create simple charts. You won't need any existing experience to attend this course.
Intermediate Excel	1 day	This is aimed at people who know the basics, but want to find out a bit more about what you can do in Excel. You'll learn how to sort and filter data in tables, how to apply conditional formatting, how to use IF functions, how to create range names and much more.
Advanced Excel	2 days	For those who are already comfortable using Excel, and want to find out what else the software allows you to do, we've created this two-day advanced course. You'll learn much more about the many useful functions in Excel such as XLOOKUP, XMATCH and INDEX, as well as how to work with pivot tables and how to import data from different sources.
Business Modelling in Excel	2 days	Do you consider yourself proficient at using Excel? Do you build spreadsheet models as part of your job? This two day course will show you three things above all: how (and why) to use range names for every formula you create, the many short-cut keys available in Excel and how to use all the built-in Excel functions. Along the way you'll learn how to create robust financial models.

Our VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) courses

Excel contains a built in macro programming language called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), which it shares with the other Microsoft Office applications. We run two courses on VBA - introduction and advanced - as well as a three-day consolidated fast-track course:

Course	Length	Notes
Introduction to VBA	2 days	You won't need any prior experience to attend this course, although if you've used another programming language you'll find it easier to pick things up. The course will teach you pretty much all of the theory that you'll need to automate routine tasks in Excel, although don't underestimate the need to then practise what you've learnt after the course has finished.
Advanced VBA	2 days	If you already know how to declare variables, test conditions, create loops and select cells using keywords like END and OFFSET, you may be ready for our two-day advanced VBA course (but note that for casual users of VBA this will be a course too far). You'll learn how to get Excel to talk to other Microsoft applications like Outlook and Word, how to loop over files and folders processing each in turn, how to work with tables of data in Access or SQL Server, how to create your own objects using class modules, and much more!
Fast-track VBA	3 days	If you want to learn as much Excel VBA in as short a time as possible, this is the course for you! The training aims to cover the entire contents of the other two courses (with the exception of class modules) in just three days.

Our Office Scripts courses

Excel has two programming languages! If you're using Excel 365 online (or security is a big concern for you) you should use Office Scripts, rather than the older VBA. Here are the Office Scripts courses that we run:

Course	Length	Notes
Introduction to Office Scripts	2 days	This course will show you how to program in Office Scripts, a language which is a variant of TypeScript (itself based on JavaScript). You'll learn how to select ranges, work with arrays and write conditions and loops.
Advanced Office Scripts	2 days	If you already know the basics of programming in Office Scripts, this will show you how to perform advanced tasks, such as working with charts, tables, emails, pivot tables and Power Automate flows.

If you're still not sure which is the right Excel course for you, have a look at detailed help on what each Excel course involves.

We don't just teach in Excel - we use it internally too. And not just for work ...

Will this trainer beat his Park Run PB? The omens are not looking too good ...

We've written versions of Flappy Bird and Wordle in VBA within Excel too, just for fun. Book on one of our Excel courses to share our enthusiasm!

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions

Click on any heading below to learn more.

How can I contact you with any questions?▼

You can reach us in one of the following ways:

Contact method	Details
Phone	Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone!
Email	Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours.
Web	Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help!

Do you offer Excel consultancy too?▼

We can help you create everything from beautiful spreadsheet models to powerful Excel systems using VBA … find out more! Get specific details about our Microsoft Excel consultancy, or more general information about how our consultancy works.

Is there an easy way for me to assess my Excel skills?▼

You can take the following tests to assess your Microsoft Excel skills on this site:

Skills you want to test
Excel VBA
Excel 365

Each tests consists of 20 questions. The tests are free and anonymous, and at the end you'll see a full analysis of your results (as well as a comparison of how well you did relative to everyone else who has previously taken the test).

Do you have any Excel videos?▼

We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn Excel:

Category	Description	Videos
Microsoft Excel	Some useful videos on a miscellancy of topics in Excel, such as conditional formatting, protection, formatting dates and goal-seeking.	31
Excel tips	Useful tips and tricks to help you to use Excel more efficiently.	10
Excel VBA - Basics	How to write macros within Excel (the scope of these videos is roughly the same as that covered by our two-day Excel VBA Introduction course). There are lots more general VBA videos listed here.	25
PowerPivot	How to use the PowerPivot add-in within Excel.	20

Do you ever blog about Excel?▼

We've written blogs on all manner of things Excel - take a look!

Blog topic
Excel
Office Scripts
VBA macros

Do you have any other Excel learning resources?▼

In addition to our classroom and online Excel training courses, we also have the following learning resources:

Resource	Notes
Tips and tricks	Useful tips and tricks to make Excel easier

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