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About the Course

In this first course of the specialization Excel Skills for Business, you will learn the essentials of Microsoft Excel. Within six weeks, you will be able to expertly navigate the Excel user interface, perform basic calculations with formulas and functions, professionally format spreadsheets, and create visualizations of data through charts and graphs. Whether you are self-taught and want to fill in the gaps for better efficiency and productivity, or whether you have never used Excel before, this course will set you up with a solid foundation to become a confident user and develop more advanced skills in later courses. The best way to learn Excel is to use Excel. In this course, learners will solve a broad range of business problems as they apply the Excel skills and techniques they learn along the way. This course uses downloadable Excel workbooks and full data sets with applied examples and practical challenge exercises. This provides learners with countless opportunities to practice their Excel skills while discovering new and useful productivity features of Excel for a variety of business contexts. Spreadsheet software is one of the most ubiquitous pieces of software used in workplaces across the world. Learning to confidently operate this software means adding a highly valuable asset to your employability portfolio. At a time when digital skills jobs are growing much faster than non-digital jobs, make sure to position yourself ahead of the rest by adding Excel skills to your employment portfolio....

Top reviews

AN

Dec 19, 2023

An excellent course with basic and fundamental knowledge about Excel! The course has been designed greatly for beginners and anyone who wants to review basic Excel skills. A highly recommended course!

KS

Jun 29, 2020

This is an amazing course for learners. I am having a lot of fun completing this course from the starting point. It is very much enjoyable and the way the course teachers deliver every lecture superb.

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By Veronica A L

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Jul 20, 2020

I have learnt so many new things through this course!!! I feel much more confident. Really looking forward to trying everything that I have learnt.

By Zahid H

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Jul 6, 2020

I enjoyed the course very much, and i have learnt a lot of new things from this course. Thanks for such a lovely opportunity. I am greatful to you.

By Neeranjan J

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Jun 29, 2020

The course was really helpful for me to understand and effectively use Microsoft Excel. The course was carried throughout in an interesting manner.

By Tariq M K

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Jun 27, 2020

Very productive and interactive course. I feel that the instructors were with me guiding all the way through out the course. Excellent experience .

By Michael A

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May 11, 2020

I had thought I was competent in Excel. But the course showed me that there were some gaps that I needed to fill. I am very glad I took the course.

By Shubham G

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Apr 29, 2020

A great starter for a person who does not know how to use excel. After the completion of the course now i have full confidence on how to use excel.

By Mahesh T

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Mar 29, 2020

This course was so informative. The matter in video is fully understandable. The assignment part help me most for make permanent through practices.

By Kannan S

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Feb 23, 2020

Prashan and Nikki are excellent instructors. The final exam was extremely boring and pointless however, but the remainder of the course was superb.

By Amadi G N

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Jan 9, 2020

I love the approach taken to teach the essentials of excel in the course. It's superb and I would advise anyone to give this specialization a shot.

By Manisha J

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Jun 29, 2019

This was an excellent course in teaching and also content.

I learned a lot about Excel from this course and will definitely recommend this to others

By Harry A

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Nov 26, 2018

Fantastic course. Went into this with only a little familiarity of Excel, now the skills I've learned have grown my confidence in using it at work.

By Ali

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Sep 17, 2023

Thank you, Coursera, and thank you, Nikki Bull, Prashant Karunaratne and Yvonne Breyer for the wonderful course you have created, you are amazing.

By John O

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Jul 24, 2023

Very informative and instructors kept the content interesting. Looking forward to continuing the subsequent Courses and Specialization. Thank you!

By Mark R

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Aug 21, 2022

Very comprehensive basic course. The Final Assessment is really a thing if you mess up the first computations then surely you won't pass the exam.

By Sethu R

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Mar 17, 2022

I think the course is good and need to explore to answer quiz... I hope in the next course of the this specialtation skill will have more practice

By Julie M

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Jan 3, 2022

Really good course. I thought I had a good handle on Excel already but learned several tips to help make what I was already doing more efficient.

By Isis K

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Oct 17, 2021

This was well put together. You learn a small portion at a time and then test your skills on it and keep building on the skills you have learned.

By Akshay P

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Apr 17, 2021

It was a good course learned quite new tips and tricks recommended if you are looking for non-tech profile jobs, that require analyzing the data.

By Sara Q A F

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Mar 14, 2021

Extremely easy to learn. So grateful! But I would love to meet Sean. I struggled to finish the course in order to meet Sean, and he was not shown.

By Blanka K

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Mar 9, 2021

Perfectly guided course, excellent navigation in the work environment. It requires hard work to master, but this strengthens skills. I recommend ♥

By Brayan B

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Feb 12, 2021

O curso é ótimo, tem uma fluidez incrível. Todas as aulas são bem explicadas e os testes são perfeitos para praticar o que foi ensinado nas aulas.

By Rabiya A

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Sep 11, 2020

I am very happy and thankful to coursera, thank you for giving me such a opportunity to study a course which helped me learn some skills in Excel.

By Carl B

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Aug 27, 2020

Took me through the basics in a relatable and understandable way. Clear guidelines, useful practice-workbooks and relevant assesment. Recommended!

By MARCOS A R

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Aug 13, 2020

Excel course to know the basics! In fact, from the courses that I've taken here in Coursera, this one is by far one of the best and well worth it!

By Dhruv W

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Aug 8, 2020

This was a very engaging course! I liked it a lot and I'd prefer to learn more courses from Coursera and the University that prepared this course.