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500+ formulas explained with real corporate use cases, practice grading that checks your work, and a certificate that proves it — built by a working data professional.
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Case Study Assignments
Build a real sales dashboard or payroll model, the kind of work you will actually be asked to do.
- Real datasets and clear tasks
- Step-by-step brief and solution
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Prepare for an Interview
Real questions asked in reporting and analyst interviews, plus how to actually talk through your answers.
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- Model answers explained simply
- Behavioural questions too
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Excel Games
Play Excel right at your desk. It looks like work, so your IT team will never know.
Levels, points and ranks. Solve real tasks with real formulas, and level up while your boss thinks you are doing the monthly report.Excel Templates
Ready-made, professional templates. Open, fill in your numbers, and you are done.
Monthly MIS reports, expense and budget trackers, sales dashboards, attendance and payroll sheets, invoices and more, with formulas already working.A real spreadsheet. Not a quiz.
No multiple choice, no guessing games. You write actual formulas in an actual spreadsheet engine, and get graded on what Excel really calculates — the same way it'll work on the job.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I practice Excel formulas online for free?
Yes. Cellgrids gives you a free spreadsheet in your browser, so you can practice 500+ Excel formulas without installing anything. You can start without signing up.
Is Cellgrids suitable for complete beginners?
Yes. Practice questions are grouped into Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels, so you can start with basics like SUM and AVERAGE and move up to lookups and advanced formulas.
What is the difference between VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP?
VLOOKUP only looks to the right of the lookup column. XLOOKUP is the newer function that can look in any direction and is easier to write. Both are covered in the formula reference with examples.
Can I prepare for an Excel interview on Cellgrids?
Yes. The Interview Prep section has common Excel interview questions for analyst and reporting roles, plus hands-on practical tasks so you practice more than theory.
What are the Case Study Assignments?
They are real-world style projects, like building a sales dashboard or a payroll model, so you practice the kind of work you will be asked to do on the job.
Can I book a 1-on-1 session?
Yes. You can book a personal 1-on-1 session with Rinkesh Shah for Excel help, Business Analyst career guidance, resume feedback and interview preparation.
Practice Excel online: free Excel exercises, formulas and interview prep
Cellgrids is a free place to practice Excel online. Instead of only reading about formulas, you type them into a real spreadsheet in your browser and see the result straight away. It works for complete beginners who want to learn Excel from scratch, and for professionals who need Excel exercises for work, Excel interview preparation or a skills test.
Excel formula practice from beginner to advanced
Work through 500+ Excel formula questions at Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced level. Topics include SUM, SUMIF, SUMIFS, SUMPRODUCT, AVERAGE, AVERAGEIF, COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, IF, IFS, IFERROR, IFNA, AND, OR, NOT, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH, XMATCH, LOOKUP, FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE, TEXTJOIN, CONCAT, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, TRIM, SUBSTITUTE, TEXTSPLIT, TEXTBEFORE, TEXTAFTER, DATEDIF, NETWORKDAYS, WORKDAY, EOMONTH, TODAY, ROUND, LARGE, SMALL, RANK, TRANSPOSE, INDIRECT, OFFSET, PMT, NPV, and many more. Open the complete Excel formulas list to see the syntax and examples, or jump into Excel practice and solve a random question.
Interview preparation and case studies
Get ready for job tests with Excel interview questions and practical tests for MIS, data analyst and business analyst roles. Build real skills with business case studies: reporting models, dashboards and data analytics and business analytics tasks based on realistic business data.
Learn more
Read the Excel tutorials (VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, pivot tables and more), learn the Excel keyboard shortcuts, prepare for Excel certification, or book a 1-on-1 session with Rinkesh Shah.