Microsoft Learn
Official free training for Excel, Power BI, Azure and other Microsoft products.
Cost
Completely free
Training content is free; certification exams are paid.
Open source
No
The code is private. You depend on the company that makes it.
Your data
Goes to their servers
Your files and text are sent to the company running the service.
Use it for this
Learning Microsoft tools from the people who made them, rather than from a five-year-old video.
Do not use it for this
Neutral comparisons. It teaches Microsoft's tools.
A moment where you would reach for it
Learning PivotTables properly instead of copying a formula you do not understand.
How hard is it to pick up?
Straightforward, but expect an hour of figuring it out.
Other things that do this job
No tool is best at everything. These solve a similar problem, with different trade-offs.
About this entry
Checked on 1 Sept 2026. Prices and free limits change without warning, and often quietly. Treat everything above as a starting point and confirm on the official site before you rely on it.
Nothing here is sponsored. A tool appears because it solves a real problem, not because someone paid for it to be listed.