TikTok is helping users get to grips with Excel and PowerPoint

Such is the popularity of Excel and PowerPoint tutorials that some TikTok users specialize in this type of content. — Photography Rawpixel/Getty Images/AFP Relaxnews

Employees often agree that Excel and PowerPoint are extremely complicated. Fortunately, TikTok is full of tutorials to help them understand the workings of these typical office tools, which many find intimidating.

Some 30 years after their creation, PowerPoint and Excel are still widely used in business, whether for producing visual aids for meetings or spreadsheets. But that doesn't mean they're mastered by everyone, especially young people. Millennial and Gen Z workers often feel uncomfortable using these programs, even though they may claim to have a perfect mastery of them on their resumes. Nor do they dare ask their more experienced colleagues for help, for fear of being seen as incompetent in this field.