Excel course with certificate: the 10 best in 2026

Best for making better charts and visuals. It covers more than 20 chart types, from histograms and waterfall charts to geospatial maps and sparklines, then moves on to advanced techniques such as animated charts, scroll and zoom controls, gauge charts and custom dashboards.

At more than four hours it is the shortest course on this list, with 4.6 stars from more than 61,000 reviews and over 216,000 students. It was updated in June 2026.

Best for experienced users moving to Microsoft 365. Leila Gharani explains the new calculation engine and dynamic arrays in depth: FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE and XLOOKUP, spill behavior, implicit intersection, and how to build self-updating reports, dynamic calendars and searchable dropdowns.

It has the highest rating in this ranking, 4.8 stars, from more than 5,200 reviews and over 27,000 students. It runs about seven hours with 30 downloadable resources and was updated in March 2026.

Best for learners who want a long, structured path with plenty of quizzes. The bundle joins eight courses: Excel 2021 beginner, intermediate and advanced, Excel for business analysts, Power Pivot with Power Query and DAX, beginner and advanced PivotTables, and interactive dashboards, including sales and HR dashboards built from scratch.

With 93 quizzes and exercises it has the most practice in this ranking, across more than 67 hours of video. It holds 4.6 stars from more than 3,800 reviews and over 22,000 students, and was last updated in December 2025.

Best for automating repetitive work with macros and VBA. Leila Gharani, a Microsoft MVP, teaches the object model, variables, loops, error handling, events and UserForms, then applies them in three projects: a table of contents generator, a regional sales reporting tool and an invoice tool that exports PDFs and sends Outlook emails.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 48,000 reviews and over 239,000 students, with more than 22 hours of video and 53 downloadable resources. It was updated in February 2026 and requires a Windows PC.

Best for everyday users who want to master formulas. It teaches more than 75 formulas through practical examples: lookups with XLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH, statistical and text functions, dates and times, formula-based formatting, dynamic arrays, and even pulling live data from the web with WEBSERVICE and FILTERXML.

It is the second most reviewed course here, with more than 120,000 reviews at 4.6 stars and over 476,000 students. Expect more than nine hours of video and eight quizzes; it was updated in June 2026.

Best for getting fluent in PivotTables. The course goes through raw data structure, layouts, sorting, grouping, calculated fields, PivotCharts, slicers and timelines, then applies them to real datasets such as shark attack records, Major League Baseball stats and IMDb ratings.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 78,000 reviews and over 294,000 students, with about six and a half hours of video, updated in June 2026. It works best on Windows, as the PivotTable interface differs on Mac.

Best for busy professionals who want the business essentials fast. It covers math, text, logical, date and lookup formulas, data tools, PivotTables and charts, then analytics with regression, Solver and what-if analysis, macros, Copilot, and Power Query, Power Pivot and DAX added in 2026.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 46,000 reviews and over 480,000 students. It runs to more than 10 hours, with 15 quizzes, an assignment in each section and 98 downloadable resources, and it was updated in September 2026.

Best for learners who want to use AI tools alongside Excel. Todd McLeod, a Microsoft Office Specialist Excel Expert, covers cell references, formatting, financial functions like PMT and FV, lookups, PivotTables with slicers, protection and macros, and shows how Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok can speed up the work.

It holds 4.6 stars from more than 66,000 reviews and over 223,000 students, with more than 16 hours of video and 14 quizzes. Its last update was in November 2025.

Best for complete beginners who want lots of practice and ready-made files. Taught by Warrick Klimaytys, it starts with one main workbook that covers the features most people need, then adds new skills section by section, revisiting earlier topics, and closes with a section on AI in Excel.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 28,000 reviews and over 105,000 students, with more than 12 hours of video and 34 quizzes and exercises, the most among the complete single courses here. It was updated in October 2026.