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Excel Everest is an interactive Microsoft Excel tutorial built right into an Excel
file. It covers 41 topics and has 155 exercises, 339 buttons, and 87 embedded videos.
It doesn't simply teach you Excel, it teaches you to be great at Excel.
It is part text book, part problem set, part computer program, and part video repository.
The idea behind Excel Everest is that learning Excel is challenging and existing
methods to teach it don't do so in the most efficient, cost-effective, or sensible
way. Unlike classes, books, or videos, Excel Everest lets you learn how to use Excel
by practicing your skills right there in the document. It is an entirely new way
to learn Excel.
Excel Everest is the result of endless hours of brainstorming, writing, formula
building, macro editing, and user-focused design. We think it's the best way to
learn Excel in existence, period.
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Conversational text: The instructional text in
Excel Everest is conversational and does not resemble a dry, faceless textbook.
It’s written to be clear, keep you engaged, and teach you what you need to know.
Navigation buttons: The navigation buttons in
Excel Everest are carefully organized so you can jump between topics and videos.
The links are intuitive, you'll never get lost, and there are handy touches to make
your experience learning Excel easier. For example, if you're deep into a long worksheet,
there will always be a button along the side to get you back to the top. Details
like this make it painless to navigate Excel Everest.
41 Topics: Excel Everest covers 41 topics ranging
from the difference between absolute and relative references to how to make a beautiful
chart. These topics were carefully selected to give you a comprehensive base that
will help you tackle nearly every Excel problem you'll run into in the corporate
setting. For a full list the topics in Excel Everest, go to the FAQ
Also, before you start each topic, Excel Everest explains why it is important, helping
you keep the big picture in view.
Easy, medium, and hard exercises: After walking
you through the details of the topics, Excel Everest provides multiple easy, medium,
and hard exercises for you to practice your skills right after you've learned them.
Most of the problems in Excel Everest are automatically graded and let you know
if you've done them correctly or incorrectly.
Embedded videos: If you get confused on any specific
topic in Excel Everest, you’ll find embedded YouTube videos carefully selected from
the huge repository of publicly available, free instructional content. You can play
these videos within Excel Everest - you don’t even need to open up a browser!
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A scoreboard: Since all 155 problems in Excel
Everest are graded, Excel Everest can track your progress in the tutorial. The progress
report consists of a highly detailed chart showing which problems you've completed
correctly, and a bar graph mapping your progress as you rise to 100%. You'll get
badges at certain milestones and a grand prize badge if you get far enough.
A library of other resources:We realize that
Excel Everest is not the end all solution to your Excel learning. The functions
available in Microsoft Excel are so expansive that you may want to travel beyond
the 41 topics, 155 exercises, and 87 videos covered by Everest. That’s why we’ve
spent hours combing through other online resources to create a virtual reference
library that you can refer to within the document.
20 hours of fun: Grabbing an ice axe and climbing
Excel Everest will require about 20-30 hours of work for a beginning Excel user.
We recommend going through it over the course of a few weeks. An intermediate or
advanced user might be able to complete the Excel tutorial faster.
Reasonably priced: We wanted Excel Everest to
be affordable. Here are our thoughts as to why we priced it at $34.95. Free Excel
learning resources are generally unorganized and of varying quality, so we think
it’s worth more than $0. Books average between $20-30 and we think Excel Everest
is better than a book. And a price greater than $40 starts making Excel learning
out of reach to the average person (DVD sets generally cost around $80 and classes
can start at over $100. Yikes!). Therefore, we settled on $34.95 and are confident
that once you start showing off your new Excel skills, you’ll find it money well
spent.
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