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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

DN

Feb 1, 2023

The explanations in this course were concise and easily understood. The course materials are very helpful with helping you get some practice in and furthering your understanding of the course content.

DT

Feb 8, 2021

Really well done! You kept me interested and motivated, and that's not easy to do!

I enjoyed the balance of instructional videos and hands-on exercises, and I'm excited to try the Intermediate now.

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By GODFREY N

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Jan 3, 2021

The guidance and simplicity that your institution offers in unimaginably easy to understand. Thank you for the valuable service offered by your professionals. I hope to learn another course soon!

By RAJAT D

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Jan 3, 2021

Yet the course is for beginner level but the content and the way delivered and story telling the way whole environment is awesome , want to convey my sincere thanks to team created this course .

By Abby G

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Dec 28, 2020

The course is pretty good. They explained everything perfectly and gave really useful tricks. We had enough practices and it was so entertaining that I enjoyed the whole course. 100% recommended.

By ilayda a

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Oct 15, 2020

it is a really good course to get on track of essentials of excel. with this essentials you can start to use CL easly on daily basis. only bad thing is the final assessment is quite hard to pass.

By Sahim S

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Oct 12, 2020

I enjoyed this course very much as it allows me to go through various topics and have a deep understanding about how excel basics are and how you can use these basics to master the advance level.

By Smaran R

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Sep 23, 2020

The best course! I learned so much in this course. Great teachers! This course was planned so well, I am so happy with this course! Thankyouuuu!!!Both the lecturers did a fantastic job! Thankyou!

By Naimmul F

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Sep 20, 2020

This course is really awesome. After this course i have earned the basics of microsoft excel so that i can do all the necessery things in my workplace . thanks coursera for this excellent course.

By Ajay B

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Aug 17, 2020

I strongly recommend this course for those interested in learning excel (not just those who are new to it). It is well structured & ample practice problems are provided. Practice makes permanent!

By GV A S

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Aug 4, 2020

Excellent methodology of teaching. I really learned a lot through this course. The discussions, practice videos, practice books really helped me to excel this course. Thank you Nicky and Prashan.

By Azumah R L

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Jul 15, 2020

This course is an interesting one and i have really enjoyed the more of it . Practice indeed makes permanent , i can now do a whole lot stuff when using Excel and am now more confident than ever

By MD.Saifur R R

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Jul 6, 2020

This course was very helpful for a beginner level learner.After completing this course, a student will accomplish different skills.The instructors are awesome, i;m in love with them. Thank YOU!!

By Syed I A

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May 9, 2020

One of the best courses available in Coursera. In order to learn some basic stuff of Microsoft Excel, this course will ensure you, that at the end you will have some primary knowledge about excel

By Yagnesh V

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Apr 5, 2020

Nice Course. Before starting of the course i am thinking that i already know about the course but after completing I learn a lots of things which are new to me. So thank you for such nice course.

By 王晓

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Jul 1, 2018

A very interesting and helpful course on basic excel skills. I learn Excel on my own but still find this course useful in some ways that help me to bridge some gaps in my knowledge. Recommend it!

By Lauren B

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Jul 7, 2022

I am self taught in excel. Proir to taking the intermediate class, it was suggested to take the essentials, and I am glad I did. I learned valuable skills I would not have known to teach myself!

By Rithwik R

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Oct 9, 2021

It is a wonderful course that makes you totally aware of the spreadsheet software even if you are a total beginner. It made me quite efficient in excel and I'm looking forward to exploring more.

By LEFKI P

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Jan 17, 2021

The course was great with a lot of examples from real-life!!!!It was very helpful. I will certainly transfer the knowledge I gained to my everyday work. I am looking forward to the next course..

By Tarek S

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Nov 30, 2020

Includes a lot of practice. The explanations are clear and easy to understand.

The practice exercises are challenging enough to keep things fun and interesting. I strongly recommend this course.

By UTKARSH K

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Oct 27, 2020

Loved this course, initially I thought that I am pretty much aware about the concepts but this course proved otherwise. Detailing in this course is exceptional and will help you in every manner.

By KRISHNAN R

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Sep 14, 2020

Course is really helpful for the beginners to understand the basics and get to know the things even better with more practice videos and examples. Have enrolled for advance level of this course.

By Tarika L

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Sep 10, 2020

This was a very wonderful and enjoyable course. I have learned a lot! What Excel skills I did have, coming into this course, was greatly enhanced. And I am very grateful.

Thank You very much!

By Vithika B

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Jul 27, 2020

The course is challenging and fun. This is the first time I'm working on excel, so everything seems new and scary. I learned so much useful stuff. Looking forward to completing the Excel course.

By Valiren T

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Jul 20, 2020

This course is an eye opener for me being a user of excel for my job. There are plenty of things which I found very useful for my future tasks. Thank you so much MACQUARIE University. God Speed!

By Shanada C

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Jul 12, 2020

This was a very good course. The structure was excellent and the material was not difficult to learn at all. The whole program was interactive and extremely fun. Great course!!! #EveryoneSayWow!

By Firangiz M

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Jul 1, 2020

I have learnt a lot of information about Excel. Now I will be able to use this Excel without any problems and will show my ability at work. Thanks a lot for giving this chance to learn all these