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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 Gulam M S

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Aug 24, 2021

The course provides the basic and essential knowledge for an individual who is new to excel. It might be a course for someone who needs to brush up thier basics.

By Lo W S

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Jul 17, 2021

This course has really filled in the gaps that I have in Excel! The instructors has explained the concepts really well with step by step explanation and graphics!

By Diego A A G

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Apr 15, 2021

Es un curso bien estructurado del que se puede seguir en directo todo lo que va realizando el instructor lo que permite un aprendizaje mas efectivo e interesante.

By Ulfat A

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Mar 21, 2021

I don't usually write reviews but this course was very well thought and laid out. I'm going to try the data analysis course by the same university and staff next.

By Zahra A

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Oct 14, 2020

The teacher is really good and explains everything in a simple way! The course comes with useful hands-on examples, which makes you master every aspects of Excel!

By Jacy W

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Sep 20, 2020

Really wonderful, through and through! A lot of things were revealed to me through this single course after all of the years that I've been using Microsoft Excel!

By JYOTI R

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Sep 18, 2020

This course was really helpful. With language and required exercises I could managed to understand it very nicely. Thank You everyone associated with this course.

By Spiro C

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Sep 9, 2020

Great course! Great course instructors. I feel so much more equipped to tackle excel now. Something that was so daunting is exciting to me now. Everybody say WOW!

By David A

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Sep 3, 2020

Great Instruction!! there were times when the instruction went too fast, however being on line and video, i was able to replay those sections. thank you!! David

By Muhammad S J

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Aug 31, 2020

This course was really helpful for me. To understand the basics of excel was essential to me and this course helped me in understanding the basics much clear way.

By Ashok B

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Jul 1, 2020

This is an excellent excel course. The basic learner will be benefited by taking this course. I'm satisfied with the teaching technique and assessment procedure.

By Abhay R

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Jun 22, 2020

It was one of the best course which I learnt on Coursera! Full of examples and explanation. It has enough practice worksheet! Awesome faculty. Thank you Coursera!

By Olusola T O

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Jun 20, 2020

I can now analyse data with ease now. I also know a lot of shortcut for doing things.

I'm now happy.

If you want to take this course I guarantee you, it's the best.

By Ruben O H

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Jun 13, 2020

This is a very interesting and useful course. I thought I knew excel, but found several topics, in each video, that made me enhance my knowledge on this software.

By Noman M

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Jun 13, 2020

Great course to get you started with MS Excel, you will surely learn something new if you already know how to use MS Excel. I really liked the assessment style <3

By Carol A G

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Jun 12, 2020

I learned a lot from this course. Thank you very much. Looking forward for excel advance course. Keep up the good work of educating people. Appreciate it much.

By Joyati M

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May 31, 2020

It's a fantastic course.I came to understand a lot of things about excel.Really loved it.The videos where very effective.Moreover I enjoyed the course very much.

By Xena N

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May 13, 2020

Our college professors always emphasis on how important Excel skills are and this course is the best for someone who doesn't know absolutely anything about excel.

By Sohayb M B Z

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Apr 13, 2020

Hello !

Thank you for the proper information and sequencing the course in a really easy way looking forward for more education and success.

appreciate your efforts

By Beatrice M

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Apr 9, 2020

I am confident my work life will never be the same with all the skills acquired in this course. Simple but insightful instructions, Thank you to the instructors.

By MsKnow

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Feb 16, 2020

Inspring and Systematic

The course is well-structured and adequately illustrated. Even I have used excel for quite some time, I still gained something new from it.

By josé h

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Dec 4, 2019

Bastante completo el curso para ser esencial, fácil de entender y con una amplia variedad de recursos para la mejor comprensión de la herramienta de trabajo Excel

By Kevin S

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Nov 4, 2019

Great course to refresh your excel knowledge.

All Basics are included and your learn some new tipps, tricks and useful shortcuts to speed up your work with excel.

By Rushabh

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Apr 15, 2019

This course has helped me a lot during my first job. The way of explaining the software here was fantastic and the pace at which it was taught was perfect for me.

By sachin n

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Sep 2, 2018

Excellent for someone who is just beginning to work with Excel. But if you have been using Excel for some time in the office or college, this is just a refresher.