Idea to converting to a good database that i can do dynamic filtering

The first thing that you need to do is normalize your data. You can do that by bringing your table into Power Query Editor and Unpivoting the columns containing the names. Close and Load to Native Excel. Next open up MS Access (this is your database system). Create a new blank db and import the normalized table into Access. You can now build a form for adding additional records and you can create queries to extract whatever information you desire. Attached is your original file with the data normalized. Additionally, I created an Access db which contains only the normalized table from Excel. Both are in the attached Zip file.

If you want to be able to sort, filter, analyse (pivot) and chart the data, you would need one record for each employee/course combination.

For example:

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Employee    Training SOP    Version No
Tim    QP/003    1
Tom    QP/003    1
Henry    QP/003    1
Julia    QP/003    1
Tim    QP/004    2
Tom    QP/004    2
Henry    QP/004    2
Julia    QP/004    2
Tim    QP/005    1
Tom    QP/005    1
Henry    QP/005    1
Julia    QP/005    1
Tim    QP/006    3
Tom    QP/006    3
Henry    QP/006    3
Julia    QP/006    3
Tim    QP/007    4
Tom    QP/007    4
Henry    QP/007    4
Julia    QP/007    4
Tim    QP/008    5
Tom    QP/008    5
Henry    QP/008    5
Julia    QP/008    5