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Good suggestion on the business use cases. I want the exercises to be realistic documents that you build up over the course of the lesson, not just interactive quiz questions.

Agreed, the Spreadsheet needs a lot of work. It's currently just an MVP to gauge interest.

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Excel has no competitors today for serious use. Google Spreadsheet lacks analysis features, LibreOffice is laughable (can't even deduplicate rows).

If you want to teach serious spreadsheet use, don't waste any time on trying to compete with Excel. Just use it. If you really need to, figure out how to make interactive lessons as VBA macros. But teach real Excel.

Also 50% of using the potential of excel is learning the shortcuts (like any good IDE). Worth making a list of the most common things you do, google the shortcut, and adding it to a cheat sheet underneath your screen.

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