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About the Course

The use of Excel is widespread in the industry. It is a very powerful data analysis tool and almost all big and small businesses use Excel in their day to day functioning. This is an introductory course in the use of Excel and is designed to give you a working knowledge of Excel with the aim of getting to use it for more advance topics in Business Statistics later. The course is designed keeping in mind two kinds of learners - those who have very little functional knowledge of Excel and those who use Excel regularly but at a peripheral level and wish to enhance their skills. The course takes you from basic operations such as reading data into excel using various data formats, organizing and manipulating data, to some of the more advanced functionality of Excel. All along, Excel functionality is introduced using easy to understand examples which are demonstrated in a way that learners can become comfortable in understanding and applying them. To successfully complete course assignments, students must have access to a Windows version of Microsoft Excel 2010 or later. ________________________________________ WEEK 1 Module 1: Introduction to Spreadsheets In this module, you will be introduced to the use of Excel spreadsheets and various basic data functions of Excel. Topics covered include: • Reading data into Excel using various formats • Basic functions in Excel, arithmetic as well as various logical functions • Formatting rows and columns • Using formulas in Excel and their copy and paste using absolute and relative referencing ________________________________________ WEEK 2 Module 2: Spreadsheet Functions to Organize Data This module introduces various Excel functions to organize and query data. Learners are introduced to the IF, nested IF, VLOOKUP and the HLOOKUP functions of Excel. Topics covered include: • IF and the nested IF functions • VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP • The RANDBETWEEN function ________________________________________ WEEK 3 Module 3: Introduction to Filtering, Pivot Tables, and Charts This module introduces various data filtering capabilities of Excel. You’ll learn how to set filters in data to selectively access data. A very powerful data summarizing tool, the Pivot Table, is also explained and we begin to introduce the charting feature of Excel. Topics covered include: • VLOOKUP across worksheets • Data filtering in Excel • Use of Pivot tables with categorical as well as numerical data • Introduction to the charting capability of Excel ________________________________________ WEEK 4 Module 4: Advanced Graphing and Charting This module explores various advanced graphing and charting techniques available in Excel. Starting with various line, bar and pie charts we introduce pivot charts, scatter plots and histograms. You will get to understand these various charts and get to build them on your own. Topics covered include • Line, Bar and Pie charts • Pivot charts • Scatter plots • Histograms...

Top reviews

SK

Apr 27, 2017

good course gives a basic foundation for data analytics ! Excellent for beginners who have no idea how to use excel for want to learn systematically excel files given at every lecture are very useful.

SW

May 25, 2020

The training provided by Dr. Sharad is easy to follow and learn. Bravo and Thank you.

The level of difficulty from the quiz and the final task is just right and it is making us to think creatively.

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By Danushka F

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May 26, 2020

Great Course to master essential Excel skills.

By Valavan V

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Mar 16, 2019

Great course to understand the basics of Excel

By tania j

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Aug 19, 2017

Great course! Every concept is well explained.

By Michael S J M

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Nov 21, 2016

Excellent course. Thoroughly enjoyed the work.

By RIANI O

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Oct 28, 2024

Saya merasa sangat antusias dengan kursus ini

By Kalavala A

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Jun 10, 2022

Very useful course for any field of graduates

By Ganesh K

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Aug 13, 2021

Excellent Very Useful and Knowledgeble course

By aasish k

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Jul 30, 2021

From Wk2 and WK4 I have gained good learnings

By Ratan K

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May 13, 2021

This is really very helpful in my daily task.

By Scott S

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Apr 26, 2021

I learned a lot the videos were very helpful.

By SANCHIT S

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Sep 12, 2020

All thanks to my great mentor BhaWna From NCR

By Emilia M

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Sep 5, 2020

Is a good introductory course. Easy to follow

By ken k

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Aug 18, 2020

Thanks!! I learn many things, so interesting.

By Mandeep K

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Jul 19, 2020

Good one required some efforts to complete it

By Mirza B

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Jul 18, 2020

Clear tutorial but need more advance material

By AURORA J A T

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Jul 13, 2020

very helpful specially in the data gathering.

By Bhargav

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Jun 15, 2020

Wonderful teaching but very short lectures.

By Mani T P

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Nov 8, 2019

Excellent teaching and excellent assignments.

By Umer A

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Nov 8, 2019

Very good and structured course for beginners

By Pratyush K

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Jul 25, 2017

Nice course, well prepared and easy to grasp.

By Pooja M

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Jun 22, 2017

Very simple to understand the basic functions

By Tom S

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Apr 13, 2017

Very useful, well balanced course. Thank you.

By Fedor E

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Mar 22, 2017

Well explained, good examples, easy to learn.

By Naz

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Dec 15, 2016

a great course. it made online learning easy.

By SYLVANUS J

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Feb 10, 2023

The course is expository and straightforward