Sabah · In-house at your premises
Microsoft Excel and Office training in Kota Kinabalu — delivered at your office
Excel, Power BI and Copilot taught to your team in Kota Kinabalu or anywhere in Sabah, on the reports you already run.
Covering Kota Kinabalu, Penampang, Putatan, Keningau, Sandakan, Lahad Datu and Tawau.
For companies in Kota Kinabalu, training a team in Excel or Power BI has usually meant one of two things: waiting for a class that happens to run in Sabah on the right dates, or flying staff to the Peninsula and losing them from the office for several days. Neither works well when the aim is to change how a whole team does its reporting.
In-house training turns that around. The trainer comes to Kota Kinabalu, the whole team trains together at your premises, and the exercises are built on your own spreadsheets and processes. The same applies across Sabah — Penampang and Putatan, Keningau, and the east-coast towns of Sandakan, Lahad Datu and Tawau.
What Sabah teams usually need
Excel is the everyday tool in most Kota Kinabalu offices, from hotels and tour operators to distributors, clinics and government-linked companies, and in the estates and mills around Sandakan, Lahad Datu and Tawau. The two-day Basic to Advanced course is the usual starting point: clean data, reliable formulas, PivotTables and a one-page dashboard built from the team’s own reports.
Where a head office in Kota Kinabalu consolidates figures from several estates, branches or outlets every month, Advanced Excel with Power Query or Power BI is the step that removes the manual rebuilding. Organisations with Microsoft 365 licences increasingly add a Copilot day for managers and administrative staff.
Consolidating branch and estate reports
A common Sabah pattern is a head office in Kota Kinabalu receiving separate spreadsheets from outlying operations — weekly figures from plantations, daily sales from outlets, stock from a warehouse in Sandakan or Tawau — and someone combining them by hand.
Power Query, taught in the Advanced Excel and Power BI courses, is built for exactly this. Each file is imported, cleaned and stacked by a query once, and next month the whole process is a single refresh. Because in-house training uses your own files, that consolidation can be built during the course itself.
What HRD Corp covers when the trainer flies in
If your company pays the HRD Corp levy, a general in-house course is claimable up to RM10,500 per group for a full day under the January 2026 Allowable Cost Matrix. The cap is per group, so the more of your Kota Kinabalu team attends, the further the claim goes.
The matrix also states that “external trainers from other towns … will be allowed to claim for airfare”, and a trainer travelling 100km or more can claim a daily allowance of up to RM500, or the actual rate paid if lower. For a course in Sandakan, Lahad Datu or Tawau, that covers the trainer’s travel from Kota Kinabalu as well as into Sabah.
Training across Sabah
Courses run at your premises wherever your people are. Companies with staff on both coasts often choose one batch in Kota Kinabalu and one on the east coast, on consecutive days, so only the trainer travels.
| Where your team is | Usual arrangement |
|---|---|
| Kota Kinabalu, Penampang, Putatan | At your premises or a Kota Kinabalu venue |
| Keningau and the interior | At your premises, or combined with a Kota Kinabalu batch |
| Sandakan | At your premises; trainer travel quoted separately |
| Lahad Datu and Tawau | At your premises, often as batches on consecutive days |
How a Kota Kinabalu course is arranged
Send a short request with the topic, group size and rough timing. A scoping call covers the team’s level and the files they use, and a skills check goes to participants beforehand so the course starts at the right place.
A written quote and dates follow. If you are claiming from HRD Corp, the grant application is submitted before the training starts. The course is delivered at your premises in Kota Kinabalu or wherever your team works, and the claim is made afterwards with the attendance record and invoice.
Courses available in Kota Kinabalu
Microsoft Excel, Basic to Advanced
Two days at your office, taught on the spreadsheets your team already uses, from the first formula to a working dashboard.
Advanced Excel: Power Query, Dashboards and Automation
For teams who already know PivotTables and now spend their week rebuilding the same reports by hand.
Microsoft Power BI
Two days, at your office, ending with a report built on your own data and published for the people who need to see it.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
One day at your office, on your own documents and meetings, so Copilot becomes part of the working week instead of a novelty.
Questions
›Can Excel training be run at our office in Kota Kinabalu?
Yes. Send the topic, number of participants and preferred dates. The trainer delivers at your premises or a Kota Kinabalu venue, and each participant works on their own laptop with Excel installed.
›Our staff are split between Kota Kinabalu and the east coast. How does that work?
Usually as two batches on consecutive days — one in Kota Kinabalu, one in Sandakan, Lahad Datu or Tawau — so the trainer travels and your staff do not. Each batch is its own group for HRD Corp purposes.
›Can the course be delivered in Bahasa Melayu?
Mention it when you request a quote and we will look for a trainer who delivers in Bahasa Melayu. The usual arrangement is explanation in Bahasa Melayu with English software menus.
›Is in-house training worth it for a small team in Sabah?
HRD Corp allows in-house courses from 2 trainees, prorated below 5. From about five people in-house training usually costs less per person than flying them to a class elsewhere; for one or two, a scheduled class may be cheaper.
Training for your team in Kota Kinabalu
Tell us the course, your team size, where you are and whether you pay the HRD Corp levy. Within one working day you get a suggested course shape, next steps on a quote, and how to claim it through HRD Corp.