5 Excel Skills Every Office Job Needs

VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, pivot tables, data cleaning, charts and shortcuts — the Excel skills employers ask for.

18 Sept 20261 min read

Most office roles use Excel every day. These five skills make the biggest difference.

  1. Lookup formulas – find matching data across sheets with XLOOKUP or VLOOKUP.
  2. Pivot tables – summarise thousands of rows in a few clicks.
  3. Data cleaning – remove duplicates, fix text and validate entries.
  4. Charts and dashboards – present numbers so anyone can understand them.
  5. Keyboard shortcuts – save an hour a day.

You can learn all of them in our Advance Excel course.

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