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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 Thasni S

Sep 4, 2023

An excellent course with super excellent instructors. It helped me a lot to have a strong foundation in excel. Very systamatic and well-structured classes and quizzes. Thank you so much.

By Muhammad S

Nov 23, 2022

This course is really very good but quizzes are difficult as compared to lectures. They don't teach us as they can or as they give in quizzes. Overall course was very good and informative

By Aditya P

Mar 27, 2022

Very good course for beginners. Content is explained from basics and delivered in easy to understand way. It is also useful for those who are using excel but without any formal training.

By Kardelen Y

Nov 4, 2021

This course has amazing teaching methods and the instructors explains everything very clear. It really gives you essentials of excel. I'd like to take other course of this specialization.

By Andrea A

Feb 28, 2021

It was a great course. I recommend you pay attention and practice because the final exam will have you practicing what you learned. I like the lessons, they were short and easy to follow.

By Pranav C D

Jan 25, 2021

I started this course with an intention to gain some knowledge on Microsoft Excel , and to you the truth it was actually so much fun playing with the worksheets. Thanks for your teaching.

By Amena A H

Jan 20, 2021

The course is very beneficial especially for those who want to build/ensure a solid excel base. You would definitely feel more confident toward the completion of the course. Great effort!

By Amir A

Oct 31, 2020

Even though I considered that I had absolute control over excel basics, this course exposed some major flaws that would have gone otherwise unnoticed. Very comprehensive course structure.

By Kaniz F

Sep 18, 2020

The course is just awesome! The instructors motivated and encouraged me a lot to move ahead. I cordially thank all the instructors, Macquarie University and Coursera. I just love you all!

By Achuyat S J

Jul 21, 2020

This course was wonderfully designed with precise guidelines. The most interesting thing was to get a discussion video about the topics coming ahead. Exams/challenges were also effective.

By Diego M P

Jul 3, 2020

This is the best Excel course series I have enrolled ever. Very clear explanations, lots of exercises and perfect material. It is clear that the instructors have done the course with love

By Himanshu K G

Jun 21, 2020

The entire course module was designed meticulously and the trainers were amazing, they made the learning very easy and guided to all the details and shortcuts required for day to day use.

By Aditi R T

Jun 18, 2020

A must course for the beginners! The instructors were excellent and were very clear in their method of teaching. I will continue the rest of the courses. Special thanks to my instructors.

By Barbara B

Jun 13, 2020

Amazing how much I learnt in so few sessions! The video explanations are really simple to follow and with the prepared excel exercises you can try out the theory straight away. Thank you!

By BHAVSAR V Y J

Apr 15, 2020

Great Course, really helps us get a firm grip on Basic Excel skills, the practice material is perfect to test out any experimentation. Sean must not face any difficulty at work after this

By Келюх В А

Mar 17, 2020

Going through this was very immersing and not scary at all! The teachers were very friendly. The visuals were great and understandable! Certainly will step into the next course of Excell.

By Elia G

May 22, 2019

It was amazing !! I am so happy, and so excited to continue those courses. Thank you all for all of your efforts in this course, and I wish you all the best. See you in the second course.

By Zhiyuan G

Jul 14, 2018

There are so many useful tools in the excel, however you don't even know it's there until someone shows you. This course shows you the tools that are available. Great introduction course!

By wassem h

Aug 11, 2024

Good course overall. nice and easy explanations. could be a bit more detailed, but maybe that will be in the intermediate levels. overall I learnt from this and enjoyed it along the way.

By Omoye O

May 4, 2022

This course has increased my spreeddsheet skills and has put a lot of fears behind me. I'm grateful for this opportunity given to me by Coursera. Lovely practice videos and Instructors.

By Shaikh S R

May 5, 2021

Although i had some basic knowledge on Excel but i learned a lot even from this beginner course. Thanks to Macquarie University and Coursera to create such a beautiful learning platform.

By Celina T

Apr 26, 2021

It is a very highly recommended course because it is very well explained by the instructores, and you have many challenges and material to practice, so you can perform well in the exams.

By Carina M

Dec 8, 2020

He trabajado con planillas electrónicas desde el LOTUS 123 hasta versiones 2010. No obstante aprendí muchas cosas con este curso. una revelación y un placer hacerlo. Voy por mas. Gracias

By Carin F

Nov 3, 2020

This course was logical in it's flow and super easy to follow. Within each week, I learned new things which I will be applying whenever I work in Excel. Thank you MacQuaire University!

By Jayvee O

Oct 22, 2020

Thanks Nicky and Dr. Prashan for teaching . I am rooting for more topics on the Intermediate level until Intermediate II Thanks !!! Final Quiz was not that Hard because you teach well !!