100+ BEST EXCEL RESOURCES AND WEBSITES

What are the Best Excel Resources on the Web?

Well, as of this writing there are 86 comments. And you will see that a number of those comments are by Excel MVP’s and site owners… providing their own ideas on who should be included in this guide.

If you scroll down to the Training Section, you will see a list of tutorials as well as paid training that can help you get up to speed on most areas of Excel, from the beginner, to the VBA programmer. Regardless of the version of Excel you are using, there is a resource for you.

The BLOGS Section is PACKED with Excel MVPs and gurus. These BLOGS contain hints and advice for anyone that uses a spreadsheet. And if you are looking for tips in a more structured format, there is an entire section dedicated to Tips and Articles.

There’s a TON here in this list. And a DOUBLE-TON in the comments section. So look around at our resources. Excel is KING here.

And if you have some ideas that you think we may have missed, feel free to add them in the comments section.

Entertainment & Competitions
Excel.TV – 20 Episodes a Year. This TV program is taped LIVE. Guests include Excel experts, Trainers and website owners. The show includes Excel Tips & News. Excel gurus discuss their systems and processes for Excel training and consulting. View any show for free.
Excel SUMO – Spreadsheet competitions as a service. Go head to head in combat for fame and prizes
Financial Modeling World Championship – Excel financial modelers compete against the best in the WORLD.
SuperSites
Mr Excel – Start here. No list is complete without this guy. One of the biggest Excel sites on the web and author of many Excel books.
Contextures – Debra Dalgleish is your host. Site is known many things including a very robust tutorial on drop down menus.
Excel Guru – Ken Puls does a great job at this popular site. Forum, knowledge base, etc. Plus a Pivot Table Course.
Chandoo – The pointy-haired Dilbert. Great site for Excel training, Excel Dashboards, and Project Management Templates
Training
Magic of Pivot Tables – Excel Guru – At one time, I lost out in a “competition” that Ken was having where the prize was a copy of this training. Yep… I lost. Ken felt bad for me and gave me a copy anyways. LOVED IT. This is a one hour video course that comes with sample files, an e-book and an immediate download. This link takes you to an Excel 2010 Class.. but he also has them for 2007 and 2003. Check it out.
ExcelHero – Daniel Ferry’s site. From dashboards… to VBA. For the Excel professional.
Chandoo’s Training – Classes from Excel School, to VBA, to Dashboards. Great training system.
Excel School – Online and Download Options
Dashboard Tutorial – Excel Video Dashboard Tutorial
VBA Classes – Several Options to join VBA Classes
myOnlineTraininghub – an extensive excel blog and is packed with training materials for Excel, Word, and Outlook.
Excel, Word & Outlook Training – Price comparison of the Office Suite Training – Some are free
Excel Dashboard Course – Build dashboards from your desktop in Excel. This course is in high demand.
Online Advanced Excel Course – A great course if you have a good grasp of the basics and are ready to go to the next level with Excel.
Excel Courses Online – covers Excel from beginners to advanced level with email support as you work yourself through the course.
MyExcelOnline – Known for the Pivot Table courses. Training catalogue is expanding.
Excel Help Forums
Excel Forum – This is a large forum site. If you type “Excel Help” into your web search engine, this site will show up.
Ozgrid.com – This is a very robust forum with links to lots of templates. Also allows you to post excel tasks and services for programmers to bid on.
Excel Guru FORUM – Ken asks… Why go anywhere else? Come learn from the GURUs
Excel & Charting FORUM – by Chandoo
Discussion Groups
Reddit Excel Community – This is where the gurus hang out.
StackOverflow – The Excel-VBA section is ENORMOUS. Over 11k questions tagged. Filled with technology experts.
Excel Blackbelts – LinkedIN – user group of over 20k members, this is a MONSTER of a group.
Excel Developers – LinkedIN – VERY active group.
Microsoft Excel Users– LinkedIN – The Largest Excel Group on LinkedIN with 28k users.
Excel & VBA Users – LinkedIN – The most active of all LinkedIN Excel groups. Quality group for VBA users.
VBA
CPearson– Ready to be impressed? then overwhelmed? and then impressed again? Sure… why not? Then head on over to Chip Pearson’s site and click the menu button titled “Topic Index”. When it comes to VBA… the site has a TON to offer.
Beyond Excel – In the words of primary contributor Craig Hatmaker, “Beyond Excel is a free “cookbook approach” to extending Excel with VBA. Practical solutions are offered instead of abstract theory.” I could spend day after day on this site. Even the resources page is a gold mine. Bookmark this page.
Andy Pope – VBA Coding techniques, solutions and examples
Option Explicit VBA – A blog of Excel, Dashboards, Visual Basic for Applications, Data Analysis, Operations Research, and Visualizations.
VBA Express – VBA Forum, Knowledge Base, Articles… All VBA All the Time
Erlandsen Data Consulting – Tips about Excel and VBA programming
GlobalIConnect – Popular for FREE VBA Tutorials.
VBA4Play – Cary Walkin Blog with Guest Posts by Jordan Goldmeier of OptionExplicitVBA.com. This is a Enormously Detailed and Cool tutorial on VBA. This is a MUST See. Video Games in Excel. Check it out.
UPDATE: I did a video review of Cary Walkin’s video game that was built entirely in an Excel Spreadsheet. Here is the Review
Excel Macro Mastery – Blogger Paul Kelly touts this site as The Missing VBA Handbook. Less of a blog and more of a guide to VBA.
Analyst Cave – Includes VBA Tutorial and Cheat Sheets
Spreadsheet Creative – Blogger Mitch Rixon is passionate about developing excel spreadsheets and add-ins to make the mundane a bit of fun, creative and intuitive.
wellsr.com– Learn how to master Excel VBA like a nuclear engineer with Ryan Wells. Ryan creates VBA tutorials for all skill levels at his VBA Tutorials Blog to help you learn macros like a pro.
PowerPivot/Query/BI
PowerPivotPro – Rob Collie was one of the founding engineers behind PowerPivot at Microsoft during his 14 year career in Redmond. He offers classes to get you up to speed on PowerPivot. This site is the center of the PowerPivot Universe (outside of Redmond, or course)
Chris Webb’s BI Blog – Author Chris Webb runs the site. Heavy in Power BI
SQLBI – These guys – Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari (awesome name ! ) – write the books you read. Several books and online PowerPivot classes.
The Great PowerPivot FAQ – Loaded with content from all the thought leaders on PowerPivot. Bookmark this page.
Javier Guillen – PowerPivot and SSAS Blog
Dick Moffat’s Spreadsheet BLOG – Recommended by Winston Snyder. PowerPivot, BI, etc. This BLOG hits on a lot of topics that I like.
Youtube
Excel TV – This is a Google Hangout Series that I host along with Jordan Goldmeier and Oz du Soleil. Complete with Interview, Excel Challenges and News
ExcelIsFun – Over 2,000 videos on Excel. Mike Girvin is the host and he does a great job
Bill Jelen – 2 minute video tip about excel every weekday
Contextures – Over 6,000 subscribers. Lots of tutorials.
ExcelVBAIsFun – One of the more common questions I hear in Discussion Groups is “Where can I learn VBA for FREE” … ANSWER… errr.. here! at ExcelVBAIsFun Youtube Channel
Utilities
Excel Translator – Mourad Louha has put together a handy site for all those doing international work. Type in your function, along with your source and target language and have the formula translated. Handy tool.
UPDATE: I recently did an interview with Mourad Louha. Read the interview with Excel MVP Mourad Louha HERE
Peltier Tech – Jon Peltier has some great tips and Excel Utilities. I have used his “Magic Quadrant” tips several times in my own consulting.
Spreadsheet Page – John Walkenback’s site. Mostly known as an author. I recently purchased his VBA book. Very good. But he also has several utilities that you can purchase on his site.
Name Manager by JKP – Range Names made easy. Utility to manage defined names in workbooks
Data Pig Dashboard Add-in and Data Pig Excel Explosion – Slick Add-in from the PIG.
Add-In Express – Development tools to create various extensions for Excel and other Office applications.
Ablebits.com –
SpreadsheetGuys – Several Products & Templates
ASAP Utilities for Excel – PC Magazine called ASAP Utilities “the one essential add-in for all Excel users” in its 2005 Ultimate Utility Guide and rated ASAP Utilities 5 stars: their maximum rating. Kees Jacobs (in the comment section) notes that it is Free for Home & Students
Blogs
The BLOG list is getting pretty long at this point. In the future I may further segment it.

Daily Dose of Excel – A great place to get regular updates and tips. Application to real everyday problems.
RAD Excel – MVP Colin Legg’s site. Updated regularly. Focus on VBA.
Bacon Bits – Mike Alexander’s site. This blog supports the Data Pig Technologies site (see utilities section above). This is actually a good read. Entertaining. More than just software. In today’s post, he has a cartoon from the Oatmeal. I laughed and almost posted it on FB. !
Mr Excel Blog – Where Mr Excel keeps his podcasts and commentary.
Debra’s Contextures Blog – Regularly updated tips and tricks.
Ken’s Excel Guru BLOG – Hey… He even mentioned me one time. So it’s gotta be a good read !
Excel Blog – myOnlineTrainingHub – Philip and Mynda Treacy add content to this Excel BLOG at least weekly
Chandoo’s Blog – Chandoo adds to this BLOG several times a week.
SmittyPro – Excel MVPs Chris (Smitty) Smith & Zack Barresse have put up some helpful posts on Forms, Data Validation, VBA, etc..
DataProse – Your host Winston Snyder notes that his blog is “Heavy on Excel and VBA, but wide open to anything related to data, information, business intelligence and data visualization.”
Excel Tables – Excel MVP Zack Barresse expands on his book Excel Tables: A Complete Guide for Creating, Using, and Automating Lists and Tables – with this website and blog dedicated to Tips and Tricks with Excel Tables. Tap into an Excel MVP Author by visiting this BLOG
ExcelJet – Dave and Lisa Bruns provide resources to help you work faster and more confidently in Excel.
A4 Accounting -over a hundred Excel blog posts plus tips + tricks and over 15 hours of FREE webinar recordings and materials
ExcelDemy – Kawser Ahmed posts a lot of Excel classes to the Training Site Udemy. Check out his blog to see his charting and VBA posts.
Brad Edgar – Check out Brad’s site for Dashboarding tips and long form EPIC posts.
UPDATE: We had Brad on the Excel TV show. You can find his episode here.
UPDATE2: Brad’s Excel Dashboard products are also available in the Excel TV store
Spreadsheeto – Two guys from Copenhagen, Denmark that spend dozens of hours creating each and every blog post. They want to make their site a 10/10 for Excel content.
Raj Excel – Quick, bite-sized tutorials with tons of screenshots.
Excel Champs – Two to three posts a week along with sample files for his visitors. You will learn some useful excel tips every week.
Trump Excel – Excel MVP in India. True story — I originally signed up for Sumit’s newsletter email list years ago before he got his MVP. I was so impressed by his newsletter that I offered him a job of creating the newsletter for Excel TV. He graciously declined. A few months later he got his MVP. I didn’t know he was already that big. I thought I had found a hidden treasure !
MyExcelOnline – Jon Michaloudis site that contains animated gifs to support the blog posts
Power Spreadsheets – Jorge Gomez runs this site of Excel tutorials
Tips & Articles
Ron de Bruin – Tips and Tricks. Including a section on Excel for Mac
Decision Models – Articles Tips & Tricks. Especially for speeding up spreadsheets.
JKP Excel Articles – Articles Tips & Tricks from Jan Karel Pieterse
xlDynamic – Bob Philips site for Excel and VBA Tips. Also several utilities that you should check out
DeskBright Excel – Series of articles on Excel Basics
Excel Easy – Intoductory tutorials to Excel & VBA
Allen Wyatt’s Excel Tips – Allen has provided tips online for many years. Check out his Excel Tips as part of the Tips.Net family
Andrew’s Excel Tips -Andrew Engwirda has been blogging about Excel since 2004. This site is filled with Excel tips, downloads and a blog that is regularly updated.
Excel Examples – A nice collection of often useful examples done in Excel.
Engineers-Excel – Nitin Mehta takes an engineering approach to his Excel Tips and Apps
Templates
Vertex42 – Jon Wittwer founded this site back in 2003 and it now stands as a nexus for all things TEMPLATE. Most templates are free. Check it out
ExcelUser – There are lots of decent Template sites on the web, but ExcelUser dominates. If you go to many of the sites listed above and look at the templates in the margin… they point back to ExcelUser.
Project & Portfolio Management – Chandoo makes some cool looking templates !
BusinessSpreadsheets.com – High End VBA-Driven Business Templates
Spreadsheet123.com – Ultimate Guide to the World of Excel Templates
ExcelDashboardTemplates.com – The title says it all. This site seems to be updated daily and includes FRIDAY CHALLENGES where a question is offered and you are given the opportunity to submit creative solutions.
Charts & Graphics
E90E50charts – WOW. This is a really cool site. Many of the graphs they have here I didn’t even think were possible. As an added bonus, they let you download the files. Really cool site to expand you mind on what is possible with Excel.
Peltier Tech
Tushar-Mehta
Andy Pope – Excel charting techniques, solutions and examples
ExcelCharts.com – Best practices for effective excel charts in the corporate environment
Clearly and Simply – This blog is providing showcases, dashboards, tools, techniques and templates. Most of the posts will come with example files or templates for free download.
In Many Languages
EXCELGAARD – English and Danish (for the Vikings).
Excel-Inside – German. Excel Author and Expert Alois Eckl’s site.
Monsieur Excel – French. — (those who can read French — let me know what you think in the comments section)
Lasakovi.com – Czech. Compilation site. — (those who can read Czech — let me know what you think in the comments section)
ExcelForum.pl – Polish. Possibly the largest Polish Excel Forum — (those who can read Polish — let me know what you think in the comments section)
Apocotenexcel.pl – Polish. — (those who can read Polish — let me know what you think in the comments section)
VBATools.pl – Polish. Excel MVP — (those who can read Polish — let me know what you think in the comments section)
ExcelWorld.ru – Russian. Excel MVP — (those who can read Russian — let me know what you think in the comments section)
ExcelTip.ru – Russian. — (those who can read Russian — let me know what you think in the comments section)
WimGielis.be – Belgium. Excel MVP — ( – Run by Excel MVP Wim Gielis)
TODOExcel – Spanish —(those who can read Spanish — let me know what you think in the comments section)
Excel Formeln – Forum and Supersite from Germany hat was recommended in the comments section. If you are German, give me your thoughts on this site.
AllExcel.info – Excel for Economists(those who can read Russian — let me know what you think in the comments section)
ExcelXL.nl – Dutch. — Jan Bolhuis says this is a great resource for beginners
ExcelEInfo.com – Spanish — from Mexican Excel MVP Sergio Alejandro Campos. This is a blog where you will find useful information about Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (macros)
The MotherShip
Microsoft Community Excel Forum – Great answer site for Excel.
Microsoft Office Forum – Dev Center – For Excel VBA.
Microsoft Office Forum – Tech Center – For Excel VBA.
Microsoft Support – For Reference.
Other Excel Help Resource Pages
Professor Lee Townsend – University of Hartford professor share his list of Excel resources for his students.
Excel VBA – Easy Excel Macros
Duke University – Fuqua School of Business has an excellent resource page filled with Excel links
MyExcelOnline Podcast – Q&A format podcast
Well… what did you think? Did I miss anything? If so, please leave me a comment, I would like to keep this list as updated as possible — So if you have a personal favorite, let me know and I will review it. Also, you can click here for the most complete list of Excel Books on the planet. They are categorized by function and recommended by some of the biggest excel gurus around.