Yes, there is plenty of hands-on work, but it's mostly guided rather than open-ended. You'll complete practice activities such as activating Copilot, cleaning and sorting data, creating a travel budget, and working toward an attendance tracker project. That format helps you apply each new skill right after you learn it.

It covers the core Excel skills many beginners use most, along with the basics of working well with Copilot. You'll practice data entry, formatting, lists and tables, and formulas and functions, then use Copilot to clean data, summarize information, and support simple reporting and visualization. It also teaches prompt engineering, so you're learning both how to do the work in Excel and how to ask Copilot for useful help.

After finishing, you should be able to handle common spreadsheet tasks more confidently and use Copilot to speed up simple analysis and organization work. For example, you could take a basic dataset, remove duplicates, sort and format it, apply functions like SUM or COUNTIF, and ask Copilot for a summary or chart. The scope stays beginner-level, so the focus is everyday Excel use rather than advanced modeling.

It's more hands-on than theoretical, though the practice is guided rather than open-ended. Most topics move quickly from short explanations into activities where you use Excel features and Copilot on realistic datasets, then finish with an attendance tracker project.