Everyday Excel for Work
Learn the essential spreadsheet skills that save hours on routine office tasks. Clean messy exports, automate repetitive calculations, and summarize raw records into clear, professional reports.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Excel for Work. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
21 levels across 4 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Fast Navigation and Smart Data Entry, Cleaning and Organizing Workplace Data, Automating Calculations and Lookups, and Summarizing and Presenting Your Results. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday Excel for Work
- Using the mouse scroll wheel through thousands of rows is slow and easy to lose track of
- Holding Ctrl while pressing an arrow key jumps to the edge of the current data region in that direction
- Ctrl + Down Arrow jumps straight to the last filled cell before an empty cell in a column
- Excel recognizes standard cyclical sequences like days of the week and months, continuing them when dragged
- Excel increments times by hour automatically when dragged with the Fill Handle
- A single plain text word with no numbers or built-in list (like 'Invoice') just copies itself repeatedly rather than creating a sequence
- Flash Fill detects patterns from your manual example in an adjacent column and fills down the rest automatically
- The keyboard shortcut to trigger Flash Fill in Excel is Ctrl + E
- Flash Fill separates, combines, or formats text without needing complex text formulas
- Freeze Panes (or Freeze Top Row) locks designated rows or columns in place on the screen
- When top rows are frozen, you can scroll thousands of rows down while still seeing your column headers
- Freezing panes only affects your screen view; it does not hide, delete, or protect data
- A standard paste copies the underlying formulas, which can break and return #REF! when moved away from their source cells
- Paste Special > Values pastes only the final calculated numbers or text, stripping the formulas
- Converting formulas to static values prevents errors when reorganizing, exporting, or emailing reports
- Applying a filter in Excel temporarily tucks away non-matching rows by hiding row numbers
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Everyday Excel for Work the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What happens if you hold Ctrl and press an arrow key in Excel?
Get it right to open this lesson and 20 more in the app.
Where Everyday Excel for Work takes you
- 1
Fast Navigation and Smart Data Entry
- Speed Up Everyday Data Entry and Movement
- 2
Cleaning and Organizing Workplace Data
- Filtering, Sorting, and Structuring Raw Lists
- Fixing Formats and Preventing Data Entry Errors
- 3
Automating Calculations and Lookups
- Core Formulas for Daily Workplace Math
- Connecting Tables and Making Logical Decisions
- 4
Summarizing and Presenting Your Results
- Summarizing Large Datasets with Pivot Tables
- Building Executive-Ready Sheets and Visuals
4 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Everyday Excel for Work is taught in the Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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