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Getting Your Footing
Before any single app: which one to reach for, how to get access without paying for it, where files live, and how not to lose work. An hour here saves days later.
6 topics ~16 h5 foundation · 1 core · 0 advanced
Microsoft Office
Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — from never having opened them to work an employer will pay for.
Who it's for: Absolute beginners upward. The most broadly employable skill set on Funcognito, and the one most students assume they already have.
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Every app, beginner to expert, ending in a portfolio of three finished pieces.
All modules
14 modules · 66 topics · ~251 estimated learning hours. Each module builds on the ones before it — follow the "Comes after" chips to stay on solid ground.
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Excel — First Steps
The grid, clean data entry, your first formulas, and turning a range into a real Table. Nothing here assumes you have used Excel before.
5 topics ~17 h5 foundation · 0 core · 0 advanced
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Excel — Formulas & Functions
The working core of Excel. Lookups, conditions, text, dates and error-hunting: the functions that appear in almost every real workbook.
7 topics ~28 h0 foundation · 7 core · 0 advanced
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Comes after01. Excel — First Steps
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Excel — Analysis
PivotTables, dynamic arrays and the analysis tools. This is where a spreadsheet starts answering questions instead of storing numbers.
7 topics ~27 h0 foundation · 5 core · 2 advanced
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Comes after02. Excel — Formulas & Functions
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Excel — Cleaning & Power Query
The unglamorous half of every data job, and the part that Power Query turns from three hours a month into one click.
4 topics ~20 h0 foundation · 2 core · 2 advanced
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Comes after01. Excel — First Steps
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Excel — Charts & Dashboards
Making the number land. Chart choice, restraint, and a single screen that answers the questions your reader always asks.
4 topics ~16 h0 foundation · 3 core · 1 advanced
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Comes after03. Excel — Analysis
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Excel — Automation
Office Scripts, VBA and Python in Excel: three routes, each right for different work. Choosing correctly matters more than the code.
4 topics ~17 h0 foundation · 1 core · 3 advanced
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Comes after04. Excel — Cleaning & Power Query
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Word — Core
Styles above all. Get this module right and long documents stop fighting you for the rest of your career.
5 topics ~17 h2 foundation · 3 core · 0 advanced
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Word — Long Documents & Expert
Sections, contents pages, captions, templates, mail merge and review. The skills that separate a report from a pile of pages.
7 topics ~25 h0 foundation · 1 core · 6 advanced
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Comes after07. Word — Core
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PowerPoint — Core
Structure before slides, showing instead of listing, and movement used to direct attention rather than to decorate.
4 topics ~13 h2 foundation · 2 core · 0 advanced
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PowerPoint — Design & Delivery
The master, a few design principles, and the part everyone forgets to practise: standing up and saying it.
4 topics ~16 h0 foundation · 3 core · 1 advanced
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Comes after09. PowerPoint — Core
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Outlook & OneNote
Keeping on top of mail, time and commitments. Less depth than the other apps, more effect on an ordinary working day.
4 topics ~14 h3 foundation · 1 core · 0 advanced
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Copilot Across the Apps
Where AI assistance genuinely helps in Office work, how to ask for what you want, and the checking habit that keeps you honest.
3 topics ~10 h0 foundation · 3 core · 0 advanced
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Portfolio & Certification
Three finished artefacts, and an honest look at whether a certificate is worth your money.
2 topics ~15 h1 foundation · 1 core · 0 advanced
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Comes after05. Excel — Charts & Dashboards08. Word — Long Documents & Expert10. PowerPoint — Design & Delivery
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