Here are some excellent online resources, tutorials and templates to give you the upper-hand when getting to grips with Excel:
- Learn Excel Without Spending a Penny – reference list for Excel tutorials, covering literally everything you need through one of the links
- Templates for Excel – the MS Office store for Excel templates. Excel 2013 has an extended list when you open the software – give it a browse for more options!
- Chandoo.org – tons of free information covering all learning levels
- MrExcel – similar to Chandoo, has thousands of hands-on how-to videos and tutorials
- YouTube: Howcast Tech – great introductory series, moving toward some intermediate Excel tools
Chandoo, MrExcel and the YouTube series from Howcast Tech are particularly good, each providing outstanding tutorials covering pretty much every tool you might encounter in Excel, brilliant resources for humble beginners right through to the Excel savants amongst us.