Learning Excel from Scratch

I've used Excel and PPT minimally (they aren't listed in my "Skills" section) and I have two months to get good at it before FT. Assuming I've never touched Microsoft Office before and want to be able to at least not be lost when the job starts, what's the best bang for the buck course/book(s)? I was looking through some course syllabi for financial modelling and some use textbooks that are 500+ pages--I wonder if those would focus too much on text and too little on me actually poking around excel/ppt.

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