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Format a report, check a formula or prepare a presentation. Choose a lesson and try the example in your own file.

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Q3 Office Move Plan.docx

Q3 Office Move Plan

Title

Timeline

Heading 1

Week 1 – Packing

Heading 2

Week 2 – Move day

Heading 2

Word workflow

Turn bold text into real headings

  1. Apply Title, Heading 1 and Heading 2
  2. Check the outline in the Navigation pane
  3. Insert an automatic table of contents
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Course paths

Three paths, one for each app

New to an app? Start with the first lesson. If you need help with a particular task, use the search above.
Word

Write, review and format documents

From a first draft to a report you can share.

What you’ll learn

  • Format headings, numbered sections and page layouts
  • Build comparison tables, figure references and mail-merge letters
  • Review edits and prepare a DOCX and PDF for readers
  1. 01Find your way around Word and save a draft
  2. 02Find, replace and paste text
  3. 03Paragraph spacing and page breaks
Excel

Excel for everyday work

Clean a list, write a useful formula and turn the results into a report.

What you’ll learn

  • Organize records and catch incorrect or missing inputs
  • Write formulas and check their references and results
  • Build PivotTables, charts and queries you can refresh
  • Create relationships and DAX measures in Windows Power Pivot
  • Write a small report macro with an error cleanup path
  • Hand over a readable workbook with clear totals and refresh notes
  1. 01Choose the right Excel file and edition
  2. 02Navigate the worksheet without losing your place
  3. 03Manage worksheets and cross-sheet references
PowerPoint

Practical PowerPoint

Plan the story, build readable slides and rehearse your delivery.

What you’ll learn

  • Plan a deck with clear titles and built-in layouts
  • Build editable charts and explain the figures accurately
  • Add captions, animation and links that suit your audience’s viewer
  • Rehearse with notes and share the right version of the presentation
  • Check an AI draft against the brief and finish a complete support review
  1. 01Create, save and inspect a presentation
  2. 02Use layouts and sections
  3. 03Make text fit the slide
How lessons work

Open the app. Try the example.

Follow a short worked example, then try the exercise. Open the result checks when you're ready to compare your work.

Know what you're practising

Each lesson starts with a task and tells you which version of the app you'll need.

Learning goal

Use SUMIFS to add up sales that match one condition, then add a second.

Follow the steps

Find the menu, select the cells or text, and see what should happen next.

  1. 1Click any cell in the data
  2. 2Press Ctrl+T
  3. 3Confirm “My table has headers”

Work on a familiar task

Practise with a memo, a sales table or a project update. The examples use sample data.

The new-starter welcome memo
An expense summary for a browser user
Harbor onboarding pilot

Check your own work

Try a small change yourself, then compare the total, document layout or slide output.

Exercise

Total West sales of at least 1500.

Expected result

3300

Practice checklists

Before you send it

A few final checks for your document, workbook or slides. Print a list or tick the items here.

Word document ready to send

Run through this before a document leaves your team.

Practice with the Word lessons

Excel data ready to analyze

Use this before you build totals, charts or PivotTables.

Practice with the Excel lessons

Presentation ready to present

Check this the day before you present.

Practice with the PowerPoint lessons
Copilot prompts

Prompts you can copy and adapt

Copilot is optional. Whether Copilot appears in Word, Excel or PowerPoint depends on your Microsoft account, plan and, at work, your organization's license and settings. Every lesson works without it.

Find the outline

Word

Use when: A long draft has no clear structure.

Review the structure of this document. Suggest a Heading 1 and Heading 2 outline using the existing content, and point out any section that should be split or merged. Don't rewrite the body text.

Client-ready proofread

Word

Use when: Before a document goes outside your team.

Proofread this document for a client audience. List unclear sentences, inconsistent terms and any placeholder text that still needs to be filled in. Show each issue with its section heading.

Spot messy data

Excel

Use when: You've pasted an export and totals look wrong.

Look at this table. Identify rows with inconsistent capitalization, extra spaces or likely duplicates, and suggest the formulas or steps to clean them. Don't delete anything yet.

Summarize by category

Excel

Use when: You need totals by region, team or month.

Summarize total Sales by Region and Month from this table. Show the result as a PivotTable and point out which region changed the most from the first month to the last.

Takeaway outline

PowerPoint

Use when: You're starting a deck from a blank file.

Draft a six-slide outline for a 10-minute update to leadership about [topic]. Write each slide title as a one-sentence takeaway and list up to three supporting points per slide.

Speaker cue lines

PowerPoint

Use when: You need notes you can glance at while presenting.

Write speaker notes for this slide as three short cue lines a presenter can glance at. Keep the facts exactly as they appear on the slide.

Frequently asked questions

How the lessons work, what you need, and where Copilot fits in.

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