Spreadsheet Mentor
Practical Excel training for finance & office professionals
Learn the Excel skills people actually use at work — with realistic examples, straightforward explanations and the confidence to solve everyday spreadsheet problems.
Excel that makes work easier
XLOOKUP and other useful formulas
PivotTables
Power Query
Cleaning messy data
Reconciliations
Reporting
Fixing broken spreadsheets
Excel and Google Sheets shortcuts
Courses built around real work
Excel Essentials — Everyday formulas, formatting and shortcuts.
Excel for Finance — Reconciliations, reporting and practical analysis.
PivotTables Made Simple — Turn large datasets into useful summaries.
Fixing Messy Spreadsheets — Clean formats, duplicates and broken data.
Power Query for Beginners — Automate repetitive importing and cleaning.
Practical Reporting — Build clearer monthly reports and dashboards.
Google Sheets Essentials — Confident everyday work in Google Sheets.
Excel taught by someone who has used it at work
Spreadsheet Mentor is built around real finance and office problems — messy data, broken formulas, reconciliations and reports that take too long.Instead of simply teaching “how XLOOKUP works,” the lesson starts with a recognisable task: “Which invoices haven’t been paid?” You learn the spreadsheet skill while solving a problem that actually matters.
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Practical • Clear • Workplace-focused
Practical Excel training for finance & office professionals
Learn the Excel skills people actually use at work—with realistic examples, straightforward explanations and the confidence to tackle everyday spreadsheet problems.
✓ Real workplace examples✓ No unnecessary jargon✓ Learn at your pace
Invoice Reconciliation.xlsx
fx=XLOOKUP(A2,Payments[Invoice],Payments[Status])
InvoiceCustomerAmountStatusINV-1042Northstar Ltd£1,240PaidINV-1043Oak &Co£875PaidINV-1044Mercury PLC£2,100OverdueINV-1045Fieldstone£640Paid
✓Useful,not theoretical.
Match invoices to payments in seconds.
Why this training?
Excel makes more sense when it solves a real problem
Most tutorials teach features in isolation. This training starts with the task in front of you:cleaning a report,checking payments,building a reliable summary or finding the mistake that has wasted your afternoon.
01Follow realistic tasks
Work through examples that feel like the spreadsheets you already see at work.
02Understand the “why”
Learn what each tool is doing,so you can adapt it to your own files.
03Build lasting confidence
Move beyond copying formulas and become comfortable solving problems yourself.
XLOOKUPInvoice number→Payment list→Paid ✓
Taught from experience
Excel taught by someone who has actually used it at work
Instead of a textbook exercise,imagine you have 600 invoices and a separate payment report. You need to know what has been paid before the month-end meeting. We’ll use XLOOKUP to match the two lists—and explain every part clearly.
Courses being considered
Start where you are. Build the skills you need.
Best place to startExcel Essentials for Work
Build a dependable foundation:formulas,formatting,tables,sorting,filtering and everyday shortcuts.
I’m interested →Excel for Finance
Reconciliations,reporting,lookups and practical controls for accurate finance work.
I’m interested →PivotTables Made Simple
Turn long data lists into useful summaries and reports without wrestling with formulas.
I’m interested →Fixing Messy Spreadsheets
Clean inconsistent data,find common errors and make unreliable workbooks easier to use.
I’m interested →Power Query for Beginners
Automate repetitive data cleaning and combine files into a refreshable process.
I’m interested →Advanced Excel for Finance
Develop stronger models,reporting workflows and checks for more demanding finance roles.
I’m interested → ▦✓Spreadsheet
Mentor
About your trainer
Hi,I’m Tony.
I’ve spent years using Excel in real finance work—not just demonstrating it in a classroom. I know how frustrating spreadsheets can feel when deadlines are tight and nobody has explained them properly.
My aim is simple: teach Excel calmly,clearly and in a way you can use the next day at work.
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