Who is this for?

Learn with Lucy Excel is a step-by-step video course for Microsoft Excel. Johnny, the teacher, transfers 20+ years of real workplace experience with Excel to Lucy, a complete beginner. By the end, we believe you will be better at Excel than most people.


About you

✓ Able to devote a few weeks to this process.

✓ Use Excel at work, home, a community club, or anywhere else.

✓ Ready to truly understand how Excel works.

✓ Prefer a more interactive learning approach.




What do I get?

✓ 14 hours of pre-recorded video across 67 lessons.

✓ 23 colourful summary sheets and 19 quizzes.

✓ Exercise spreadsheets and sample data sets.

✓ Carefully-planned, professionally-produced content.

✓ Personal guidance and real-time problem-solving.

✓ Dedicated support in the discussion area or you can email us.

✓ The reassurance of great customer feedback.

✓ A completion certificate and sticker.


The course can be accessed as soon as you create an account on the learning platform. It’s self-paced, your progress is saved, and you can log in from anywhere.



A thoughtfully-planned curriculum

This course makes it feel like you are in the room with Johnny and Lucy. She is learning at the same pace as you. We start easy, go slow, and build each lesson on the last – before you know it you'll be an Excel nerd.


🎓 Core curriculum

Pack 1 – Data types, functions and formulas, beginner cell referencing.

Pack 2 – Layout and printing, the fill handle, borders and formatting, tables, charts, errors and error checking.

Pack 3 – Importing data, advanced cell referencing, VLOOKUP, pivot tables, conditional formatting, naming cells, validating data, find and replace. 


👔 Business Class

These lessons pack a punch. We learn techniques to solve some common work problems using realistic, messy data.


🎁 Bonus material

The course map – A mind map of the course, with links to lesson videos. Need to review something? Search the notes to find a lesson.

VLOOKUP Wings – Students who take on the mighty VLOOKUP function earn their Wings (a shiny limited-edition sticker). We salute you.


🕵️ Take a sneak peak

Download the full curriculum with learning objectives here. Watch the preview video. Or see an example lesson from functions and formulas, tables, pivot tables, or Business Class.


Price

🛍️ Learn with Lucy – Excel can also be purchased in our Shopify store. Want to organise your life as well? Bundle this course with the Johnny.Decimal Workshop for US$150 (includes the 120-page Johnny.Decimal Workbook and Quick Start: 'Life admin' pack).



Q&A

  • There’s a lot of Excel courses, why should we trust you?

    It takes time to become proficient at one of the most complicated and important software tools in the world. We're not going to lie and say we can teach you Excel in an hour. The kicker is, you need to be patient and do the work, until the end. But it's only 14 hours long. Game of Thrones is 63.5 hours all up, so there's no excuses! If you watch the videos, read the summary sheets, do the quizzes and practise sheets (like Lucy), we believe that you will understand Excel better than most people. Lucy is this course's first student. At the start she couldn't use Excel, now she can. Soon it will be you that colleagues ask for Excel help!

  • Why pay for a course when YouTube is free?

    YouTube is great for tips and quick fixes. But it's not a learning platform. Our course is hosted on Thinkific – a place designed to help online students succeed. You'll stay motivated by tracking your progress, and doing quizzes and exercises to reinforce the lessons. By the end you will *understand* Excel – not just know some buttons and functions. Free tips and tricks will only get you so far. We'll give you the deep knowledge you'll rely on throughout your career.

  • Will I be learning the right things for a beginner?

    Johnny took a lot of care preparing the lesson plans. The curriculum covers a manageable range of functions, features, keyboard shortcuts, and techniques. We'll give you the fundamentals you need, and none of the stuff you don't.

  • Can I get my boss to pay for this?

    An excellent idea! Bosses often have training budgets they need to spend and aren't sure how. If not, maybe you could claim it as a tax deduction. It'll depend if Excel is central to your job. Ask your accountant (or check your government's tax website) if this course counts as work-related self-education.

  • How long are the lesson videos?

    The average length is about 15 minutes – bite-sized so they're couch/commute-friendly.

  • Do you have a money-back guarantee?

    You get full access to this course, forever, in one easy payment. Our money-back guarantee applies within 14 days of purchase. No questions asked.

  • Does it matter if I have a Mac or PC?

    No. We use a Mac with Office 365. But Excel is basically the same on PCs apart from the shortcut keys and the layout of some areas. We highlight this where relevant.

  • Who is Johnny.Decimal?

    Learn with Lucy is part of the Johnny.Decimal family. So don't be alarmed if you see that name or logo on any emails, payment receipts, or within your student dashboard. You're in the right place. We have more than one course on our learning platform. We've customised as much information as we can so as not to be confusing. But just a heads up in case something slips through.

  • Contact

    👋 Hello future Excel nerd. If you have a question about the course, or have any trouble signing up, or just want to know what the weather is like in Canberra today, let us know. We're here to help: [email protected]

Testimonials

Marcus, in a 5-star review on Thinkific, said:

"What a wonderful course. The information is clear and well-considered, the course is organized effectively, and the presenters have a delightful rapport. Highly recommend."

Beat, in a 5-star review on Thinkific, said:

"I really enjoyed it, fun and much learnings!"



About us

Johnny has a background managing complex computer-related things at work. His first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum (nerd alert). He uses Excel every day to store and manipulate data.

Lucy was a science writer who could nose around inside Excel, but didn’t know how to use it. Treating it as a handy grid, she manually entered numbers after doing maths on a calculator (eep).

Privacy – Learn with Lucy Excel is part of the Johnny.Decimal family. We share the same privacy and ethics values, money-back guarantee, and goal of contributing to the ‘good corner of the internet’.