LF
Great learnings, I am hooked! Thank you Coursera!

Microsoft Excel and Power BI are essential tools for business analysis, used by companies worldwide to transform raw data into actionable insights. This beginner-friendly specialization equips you with practical skills to analyze data, create compelling visualizations, and tell data-driven stories that impact business decisions. You'll start with Excel fundamentals, learning to prepare and analyze business data using formulas and functions. Then, you'll progress to Power BI, where you'll create interactive reports, design accessible dashboards, and develop compelling visualizations. You'll explore creative design techniques for business intelligence reports and discover how Microsoft Copilot enhances your Power BI workflow with generative AI. By completion, you'll build a versatile analytical toolkit highly valued across industries. You'll extract meaningful insights from complex datasets, design professional dashboards, and create visualizations that effectively communicate business metrics. These skills are valuable for aspiring business analysts, data analysts, and professionals seeking to enhance their data literacy. Whether starting a career in data analysis or adding valuable skills to your profile, this specialization provides practical training needed to succeed in today's data-driven business landscape.

LF
Great learnings, I am hooked! Thank you Coursera!
CF
Accountability in videos and assignments was a nice feature. Downloadable files to apply learning were really helpful.
JL
Really like the new AI features (do use them as they help you retain information when studying). I also learned skills that will add value to my day to day working also.
SB
i finished course , my payment method failed and now i cant find a way to change the payment method, i dont unerstand this at all
SB
Truly engaging. My course instructor was inspiring and highly impressive. She delivered the course material with a Great Passion and commanding grasp. Stay blessed always.
JT
course was quite interesting and engaging throughout
C
I enjoyed every module in this course. The real world practicality is amazing .
EO
I learnt a lot that I thought I knew earlier. with each step presenting new creative ways of data presentation. Thanks to Microsoft and Coursera for this initiative.
DD
Enjoyed the actual exercises taking data in CSV form and bringing it into Power BI and making some visual dashboards.
AS
I gained a lot from using this tool; it streamlined my work in Power BI.
RP
Not Mac friendly for some of the questions at the final but overall great course.
ZH
This course help me in basics of Power Bi also i am now familiar with visualisations of power bi .
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Best course in learning Microsoft Excel if you're using Excel for work.
Rounded up from 2.5 stars. Starting as a complete beginner, I feel I learned a lot, but it required significantly more time than estimated, and a lot of self-teaching and trial-and-error. The amount of information provided in the five-minute videos would be more useful in a bulleted list - way too much to digest in such a short time. Someone really needs to go through and edit these courses. There are a lot of obvious typos, and the way several sets of instructions are worded/formatted makes them unnecessarily confusing. Also, at least two answers in the quizzes are incorrect, confirmed by the "explanation" provided in the feedback provided post-quiz. I made a note of one of them: Self Review in 'Sorting Data', Q3. The first quiz contains questions on material that isn't covered until later modules, and instead of the ability to retake it three times every 24 hours, like all other quizzes throughout the course, you're only given one. I recommend skipping it until the third module is completed. I likely wouldn't recommend this course to those who don't have basic knowledge of formulas and functions used in Excel.
Learned a great deal of info and refreshed some old details.
I rated 4 star because Microsoft needs to enable the use of Slicers for Mac OS users
Course content is great, but it was a bit difficult to follow along without Excel. I thought it was rather disappointing that purchasing the course didn't give you some type of trial or X number of months to use Excel.
First 2-3 courses seem beneficial in understanding Excel and Power BI. However, I believe the additional courses aren't so useful and may be used to justify the cost of the course by making it longer.
Many broken questions in the exams.
I don't understand what is the issue with the entire course, if the course is not fully available you should not have made it available on the platform. One has to wait 8 days if attempt is failed, this is absolutely unfair. you wasted my three weeks on this course, i would have taken some other course rather. Will never suggest this Microsoft course to anyone.
too many problems
Not worth it.
I recently completed the "Data for Business Analysts Using Microsoft Excel" course, and I must say it was an incredibly valuable experience. The course content was well-structured, guiding me through essential Excel functionalities that are crucial for data analysis in a business context. Overall, this course significantly improved my proficiency in Excel and equipped me with valuable skills for my role as a Business Analyst. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to enhance their excel data analysis capabilities using Microsoft Excel.
This course effectively reinforced my existing Excel knowledge and refined how I apply it in real business analysis. It strengthened my understanding of core tools like PivotTables, formulas, and data cleaning functions, showing their value in practical decision-making. I especially appreciated how it linked Excel techniques to business insights—turning data into actionable information. Overall, it deepened my analytical mindset and provided a more structured, professional approach to using Excel for business intelligence.
Super Easy instructions to follow, learnt a lot of new functions and how and when they can be used. The examples were really engaging and super easy to follow as well, the instructions and video were helpful which helped me stay focused and get things done on a timely manner.
It's a wonderful course to enhance the knowledge of Excel. Every topic is very well explained with videos and study material. Excel files given for practice are very helpful. I got to learn a lot of new things from this course. Thanks to the whole team. Great job!
The videos were informative, and the subsequent reading reinforced the learning from the videos.
It has been a good refresher course for me. Also learned a few more things I did not know.
Well put together couse, I like that it has a lot of excercises to learn the material.
The lessons were very informational and the hands on activities were very valuable.
O curso é ótimo. Está me permitindo melhorar na otimização das análises de dados.
This is one of the best courses I have ever taken.