I HATE EXCEL. I HATE THE WHOLE SPREADSHEET THING. BUT IT’S SOMETHING YOU SHOULD LEARN BECAUSE LOT’S OF JOB’S HAVE A HIGH DEMAND FOR IT. BESIDES ONCE YOU GET IT UNDER YOUR BELT THEN YOU KNOW IT.
Start trying to solute business problems in excel. thus it will have a better learning. Cash Flow, Charts and simple account documents are good examples.