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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

KG

Jun 8, 2020

Very good teaching of fundamentals. Everything was explained in a really structured manner. Final assessment was like cherry on the cake as it helped in revisiting what has been taught over the weeks.

RB

Aug 28, 2019

The course was defiantly more than I expected. It not only strengthened what I did know about Excel but it showed me several options that I was not using or haven't found. I would highly recommend it.

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By Arnol S

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Apr 29, 2022

I am really satisfied with the course, and I can see a real improvement with my Excel skill. I'm becoming more confident in handling dataset and to visualize it. The course is managed so well, and the information in the feedback to each assesment answer is really helpful. My big thanks to Mr. Prashan and Mrs. Nicky.

By Yashonandan M

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Apr 30, 2020

Very informative course and made extremely straightforward with the guided excel files and the end of the week challenge. One of the best courses if you want to learn the basic functionality of excel or even acquire some "ninja tips" to provide you with much needed shortcuts, helpful even for proficient excel users!

By Junaid A K

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Oct 13, 2022

Excellent course with perfact examples and real life scenarios and simulation to enhance understanding. The trainers were very professional and thorough. Great work by Coursera and Macguire University. Already feeling better in terms of my skills and knowledge about excel but remember."Practice makes permanent!".

By Craig H

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Dec 28, 2020

I learned a lot. Like many self-taught excel users, there are huge gaps in my knowledge. The essentials course updated fundamental skills that I will need to know to continue leveraging the power in the excel platform. The course is very easy to follow and the online lesson modules and projects are well crafted.

By James S

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Sep 9, 2020

Great course! Thank you.

Useful, easy to follow (and flexible) sequence of video and practice quiz. Easy to review if necessary.

Engaging and professional presenters. Professional videos.

TOUGH exam. A real challenge at the end. I didn't plan to take the next level course but now I am motivated thanks to this course.

By Amar K

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Jun 26, 2020

the course was awesome. It was really engaging, if you don't believe it then let me tell you that I finished the course in 4 days.

I thank all the instructors from the bottom of my heart. thank you very much for making this course this much interesting. I am proud to say that I am your student.

thank you very much!

By Seng B K

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Aug 20, 2024

This might be one of the few courses that is worth the ratings! The amount of work and passion put into developing the materials and lessons is tremendous. It doesn't try to sell a quick and easy course but one that is well guided and designed. I didn't even have to search anything up from the web! Well done team!

By Mohammad H

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Jul 26, 2022

i have finished many courses online before in many areas, this is the First course in this platform, with real great effor and keen to teach the subject, organized and covering most gaps in your prior knowledge.

not only like come'n guys, lets make a course and let people pay for it.

thanks for the team behind this

By Linda S

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Mar 4, 2021

Great overall. I like how the instruction was broken up into different topics so each topic was easy to digest. Loved that you could practice along with the instruction to better absorb material. My one complaint is with the final quiz and you shouldn't have to repeat it every time you do not make a passing grade.

By Dike J

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Nov 24, 2020

It has been a great learning experience for me. The course instructors are so wonderful and detailed in explaining the course. The Weekly challenge were also very helpful.

I have previously enrolled for a for this same course in the past but the experience is not the same when compared to this one.

I am very please.

By Gloria A O

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Oct 17, 2020

Excelent

I though I knew Excel basics, but I learnt many tips and details that I had no idea, I'm using it already in my daily work, I'm impressed with the quality of the course. I'm grateful to the Sao Paulo University (USP) that provided the opportunity to take this course and many others for my career progress.

By Hugo S

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Sep 11, 2020

I had an absolutely great experience taking this course. The instructers are Fun, Understandable, and Well Organized. Throughout the course, they gave step by step instructions that where simple to follow for every excel noob to grasp! Definitely going to take the other courses offered by these wonderful teachers!

By Justyna W

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Sep 10, 2020

Good for reviewing and reinforcing basic Excel skills. Also perfect for someone who doesn't have previous experience with this software. All the explanations were clear, the practical videos entertaining and the assessments were challenging and helped me to convert the knowledge into real skills. 100% recommended.

By PULKIT G

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Aug 30, 2020

Great Course! Practice makes Permanent, it's right. We think we know how to use excel and think it's easy. But through this course, I learned a lot more about and how amazing things we can do with it. Assignments are amazing, it makes you practice questions on excel rather than just providing theory and questions.

By Luis F C

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Apr 27, 2020

The content is very well created, organized and accurate; I will definitely recommend this course to my colleagues. I learned some ways on my own in this "Excel world", but after this course, despite it was the essentials one, I learned so many new tricks and ways to do better what I thought I had mastered before.

By Param R

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Jul 17, 2018

Very good for beginners. Informative and they really guide you through everything they teach, but they need to add a little more to address the differences between windows and mac. I had to repeat one of the tests 3 times because they use windows while teaching and I use mac. Otherwise a must have for excel users.

By Chirag P

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Jul 10, 2020

Informative, precise, crisp! The workbooks are the most effective way to practice, and after completing the lectures of whole week you can implement it comprehensively in the weekly challenge section. I am looking forward to master the paramount skills of Excel by attending all the courses in this specialization.

By Alex K

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Jun 24, 2020

Amazing course! I took this program to maintain my already obtained knowledge after I pursued excel specialist certification from microsoft. I am gonna be taking Excel expert certification from microsoft and using this specialization to kinda stay in the Excel theme and gain more knowledge. thank you to teachers.

By Samir S S

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May 7, 2020

This is by far one of the best excel courses I have come across. Lots of practice materials, really well designed course to have a good brush up of skills. Instructors should take a bow for creating great quality journey for the students. Really recommended and looking forward to doing the next one in the series.

By Tanvir M

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May 3, 2020

The contents and the exams are surprisingly organized. I am thankful to the course instructors whose friendly and supportive approach made me learn such an essential skills of excel. Looking forward to the Intermediate courses of this series. I hope to find the same instructors in the next courses, if not better.

By VALENTINO T M

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Nov 7, 2020

Thank you to the Instructors for a very good learning modules , hands on type assessments. To Coursera learning flat form, its perfect I'd never encountered any problem from start to finish of the course. To DOST -Caraga, I really appreciate your efforts.

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By ryan m

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Jun 12, 2019

This was my first course using coursera and I was pleasantly surprised how great and easy it is to use. I enjoyed being able to watch a video and work alongside the instructor. Once you feel comfortable with the topic at hand, you can complete the exercise and quiz for each section. It was a great learning tool!

By Md. I M

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Mar 1, 2021

Hey there, this is Md. Istiaque Masud from Bangladesh. i'm pursuing B.Sc (Hons), department of Physics at University of Chittagong, Chattogram, Bangladesh. By the way, learning MS Excel at Coursera was a great experience for me. Thank you so much Prashant Karunaratne Sir & Nicky ma'am for unconditional support.

By Parth S

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Jan 5, 2021

First of all thank you to Macquarie University's instructors who designed the course structure so nicely. This is a good course to learn excel software for beginners. Best part of the course is that instructor(s) have look into the every corner for the beginners. This quiz system is quite impressive and useful.

By Veronica L C

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Aug 17, 2024

Very carefully curated and crafted course. Even when you answer with the wrong answer there is a constructive feedback/response on the quizzes. Learned a lot and the pace was perfect. The instructors are very clear in methodology and have great speaking voices so it's enjoyable to listen to and easy to follow.