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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 Umme S S

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Oct 5, 2020

I didn't know the ABC of excel. After completing this course I can now Operate the basics at least . Thanks for everything I have learned in this course.

By Corinne M

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Aug 13, 2020

A really good course and I learnt a lot. I really liked the teaching styles, short videos, regular testing etc. The final assessment was hard, very hard!

By Yogendra M G

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Aug 5, 2020

Nice Course to begin with for learning Excel and the assessments are designed in such a way that you don't forget what you learned throughout the course.

By Mohamed T H

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Jul 31, 2020

It was a really great experience that really interesting and which opened lot of doors for me and made me learn excel from the basics totally recommanded

By Denise W

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Jul 24, 2020

I've always been intimidated by Excel but this course was really straightforward for beginner level and I am excited to use the new skills I have learnt.

By Dhruv J

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Jul 17, 2020

This course has helped me out how to effectively use the various options in MS Excel. Now, I`m able to work with worksheets in a very productive manner.

By KYAW W

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Jul 3, 2020

Very well structured and easily followed. I went through Excel modules in school but I still managed to learn new things in this course. Highly recommend

By Aditya S

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Jun 16, 2020

It was quite interesting, now I am excited about second course of Excel which I will start shortly. Thanks to Maquiaire University and related faculties.

By Ferhad P

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Jun 11, 2020

At first I was afraid ..... I was petrified ...

Then along came this well presented course which built my confidence in Excel

Well done Prashan and Nicky .

By Rifa T

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May 29, 2020

It was a wonderful experience while learning with courseera.the course was quite informative and had useful contents to enhance the skills of the learner

By Florian F

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Dec 26, 2019

Great course, exactly what I needed to improve my work in Excel. The instruction videos are well-paced and easy to follow, even for a non-native speaker.

By Ajit B

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Jan 13, 2019

Awesome Course...thank you Nickey and Prashan for such a lovely course and for all your hardwork. Your camaraderie between sessions is great...keep it up

By Angelyssa R R

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Nov 21, 2018

I think the course was very well made and understandable. I wish the were more guided tests or quizzes and that the forum would be a bit more accessible.

By Kevin M

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May 9, 2024

This is a well thought out course I have ever attended. It is just like the creators understand human nature fully. It is easy to follow and understand.

By Brenda G G

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Feb 20, 2024

He aprendido mucho de el curso, me siento muy motivada por seguir reforzando mis habilidades, los profesores muy buenos y una gran calidad de enseñanza.

By Jeff W

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Jan 14, 2023

Fantastic course! Would highly recommend for anyone interested in learning the critical tools needed to be able to navigate and use excel for business.

By Anh P P

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May 23, 2022

Great course! English is not my first language and I didn't know anything about Excel but this was really easy to understand and follow, really helpful!

By Benjamin L J

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Apr 27, 2022

Well constructed course. Easy to follow and there is a lot to learn! Thanks. Only problem is that the workbook of the final quiz had a formatting issue.

By Anany S

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Feb 14, 2022

Very effective course to learn Excel for basics..Gain confidence about your excel skills in just weeks..Truely looking forward to do the next 3 courses.

By Molly A

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Mar 21, 2021

This is such a well executed course. It was thorough without being too tedious and it was very easy to follow along. Can't wait to start the next level!

By Pritam S

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Nov 23, 2020

This course is really Helpful for those who uses Excel for day to day work !

I learnt some new functions, tools which i was un-aware about that Earlier.

By Fatema H K

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Sep 13, 2020

Too much practice. practice makes man perfect and so this course as well as my instructors were great. the task is not much easy. need to keep patience.

By melroy b

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Jul 19, 2020

The course is really helpful for beginners and amateurs as it tells us about minute details and amazing excel tools that can be of great help.

Thank you.

By Deepto R

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Jul 4, 2020

I know some basics of excel but this course helps me to learn in detail of excel basic. Looking forward to learning more from this excel specialization.

By Avinash S R N

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Jun 30, 2020

If you want to build the professional spreadsheet handling skills in MS Excel this is for you. This is the basic level course in MS excel to start with.