Don’t practice Excel with boring datasets: 4 real Pokémon projects that stick

Most Excel tutorials hand you a sales spreadsheet from a fictional company and tell you to practice pivot tables on data you don’t care about. That method of learning or coming back to Excel doesn’t work for everyone. The trick to actually retaining this stuff is working with data that means something to you. If you grew up playing Pokémon, you’ll know how structured the games are and how well they’d translate into real excel spreadsheet problems.