HOW DIFFICULT IS MS EXCEL TO LEARN ?

 It is really simple and easy to learn. No exaggeration ! All that you have to do is to make it a practice  to use MS Excel as often as you can. Keep looking for opportunities. Have a child like enthusiasm to learn it. If you committed a  mistake, just undo your mistake by pressing Ctrl+Z. If you want to get back what you did do un-do by pressing Ctrl+Y.  If you don't know ask your friend or colleague or just Google it !! You get your answer !! It is that simple.

   The trick is to try new features daily. Only precaution, do all these trials with your own data.

  As you probably know, all applications in (MicroSoft) MS Office like MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power Point  have a similar type of user interface. This means that the procedures, keys and short cut you use in one application will be broadly applicable in other applications also. So no great learning effort is required. Skill you acquired in one application is readily usable in other applications. If you are comfortable with working with MS Word, you already know some basic commands, keys and shorts which can be used with MS Excel.

  One more useful point you  must bear in  mind is that, in MS Excel, like in all MS applications, there are always more than one way to do any thing !
Example : To save a file there are three ways. To open a file there are three ways !