Everyday Excel
Stop doing repetitive manual data entry and let the spreadsheet work for you. Learn the essential formulas, cleanup tricks, and summary tools to turn messy numbers into clear answers fast.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Excel. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 10 levels across 2 sections, about 20 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Make the Sheet Do the Work and Pulling Insights from the Numbers. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday Excel
- Starting a cell entry with '=' tells Excel to calculate a formula
- Entering numbers and math symbols without '=' causes Excel to treat the entry as passive text
- Formulas starting with '=' recalculate automatically when referenced values change
- Hardcoding static numbers means the formula will not change if the original data changes
- Referencing cell coordinates keeps formulas dynamically linked to input cells
- Clicking a cell while writing a formula inserts its live coordinate automatically
- Dragging the fill handle copies the underlying math logic to adjacent cells
- Excel automatically increments row numbers when dragging a formula downward
- Relative references adapt to their new position row by row
- SUM adds an entire range of cells specified with a colon without typing individual plus signs
- AVERAGE computes the arithmetic mean of a selected range in one step
- Range references adapt cleanly when new rows or columns are inserted
- Excel Tables automatically expand their borders to include new rows typed right below them
- Formulas and cell styles in an Excel Table instantly fill down into new rows without manual copying
- Flash Fill looks at a typed example and repeats the pattern down the column
- Flash Fill can separate combined text or standardize punctuation without complex formulas
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 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.
You type 10+5 directly into a blank cell without an equals sign and press Enter. What appears in the cell?
Get it right to open this lesson and 9 more in the app.
How to learn Everyday Excel, step by step
Go in order. 10 short levels across 2 sections, about 20 minutes in all, five minutes a day.
- 1
Make the Sheet Do the Work
- Automating Your First Calculations
- Taming Messy Lists with Smart Tools
- 2
Pulling Insights from the Numbers
- Getting Targeted Totals with Conditions
- Instant Summaries with Pivot Tables
2 sections · 4 units · 10 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Questions about Everyday Excel
How do I learn Everyday Excel?
Go in order: start with Make the Sheet Do the Work, then Pulling Insights from the Numbers. On Tomo that's 10 short levels, about 20 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.
Is there a Duolingo-style app for Everyday Excel?
Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. Everyday Excel is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.
Is the Everyday Excel course free?
Yes. Everyday Excel is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.
How long does it take to learn Everyday Excel?
10 levels across 2 sections, about 20 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.
Do I need any background to start Everyday Excel?
No. It's pitched at a beginner level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Everyday Excel 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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Start Everyday Excel today.
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