Built from the experience of learning the hard way
Working with data showed us how useful Excel can be. Learning it also showed us how much time gets lost searching for the right explanation, a clear roadmap, and files you can actually practise with. CtrlPlus Excel grew from that experience.
The idea is simple: help you practise one topic at a time, with explanations, learning videos, exercises, and files that connect the lesson to the work. You can spend more time building a skill and less time deciding where to start.
Learning with a growing community
Our Instagram community has grown to more than 300,000 followers, with more learners joining us across other social platforms. Along the way, we have helped people find clearer ways to learn Excel and work with data.
This website brings that same practical approach into a place where you can do the work yourself. Whether you arrive from a short video or start with a practice question, there is room to learn at your own pace.
A simpler way to practice
CtrlPlus Excel brings lessons, realistic questions, and an interactive spreadsheet into one place. You can read an explanation, try an approach, and use feedback to refine your work without switching between a tutorial and a blank workbook.
Whether you are starting with your first formula, preparing for an interview, or improving everyday work, the goal is the same: understand what you are doing and why it works. The content focuses on useful tasks such as reports, lookups, reconciliation, and cleaning data.
Learn, apply, and improve
The learning library explains functions and spreadsheet techniques. Practice challenges turn those ideas into focused exercises with hints and answer checks. Interview assessments add longer business scenarios and downloadable datasets.
Use the Playground to experiment with your own data and formulas. When you want a more structured challenge, Practice gives you focused answer checks, while Interview assessments let you work through a larger task and compare your approach with the supplied guidance.
Your pace. Your progress.
You can start Practice as a guest. Local drafts and completion stay on your browser. With an account, verified attempts and saved drafts can follow you across devices.
You do not need to master everything at once. Start with one question, learn from the result, and come back when you are ready for the next step. Your dashboard brings your recorded practice activity together so you can see how far you have come.
Help shape what comes next
A useful learning product improves through specific feedback. Tell us what was confusing, which question needs a clearer explanation, or which workplace topic you would like to practice next.
CtrlPlus Excel is growing around the needs of people who use spreadsheets. The Contact page and Feedback button give you a direct way to share suggestions, report a problem, or ask for a clearer explanation. Your feedback helps shape what comes next.