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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

KN

Jan 28, 2021

Dr Sharad has made Excel Learning very concise and easily understandable. The advanced concepts are easily understood by even beginners. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn at Rice University.

AM

Jun 2, 2020

Everything was explained in detail, even the smallest bits we don't pay attention to. Beautifully designed course, I would recommend it to anyone looking to get started with excel and data analytics.

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By Manuel G P G

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Sep 5, 2020

Excelente curso! Muy recomendado...

By sonam W

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Jul 11, 2020

The best base for armature learner.

By Muhammad F

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Jul 1, 2020

Very useful and informative session

By Yash K G

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May 24, 2020

A short course,but very insightful.

By Niraj G

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Apr 24, 2020

Excellent Course. Excel is fun now.

By Lillian B

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Feb 17, 2018

Very easy to understand and follow.

By Andrea P

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Aug 3, 2017

It was really useful and organized.

By Shivam P

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Oct 16, 2016

Great Learning Experience.Thanks!!!

By Ross A O

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Jan 27, 2025

Great Class with a Great Professor

By jerome o

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Nov 7, 2021

I gained so much in this course...

By NIGAM P

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Jul 30, 2021

It really help me to work on excel

By Kushma K A

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Sep 5, 2020

Thank you very much for the course

By sanyam b

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Aug 4, 2020

very good assignments and problems

By Audaldo J H A

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Jul 1, 2020

Es Excelente el curso para empezar

By Rohan O

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Feb 21, 2020

Course Graded Assignments are good

By Anuradha.R

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Jan 14, 2020

Very Useful for data Analysis !!!!

By Japhet A

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Dec 4, 2019

Very informative! I learned a lot.

By Victoria P

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Mar 4, 2019

Loved every section of the course!

By Parakh S

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Dec 21, 2018

Nice Course to get Hands Dirty !!!

By Austin S

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Nov 23, 2018

Outstanding! Really learned a lot.

By Irene S

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Nov 14, 2017

very easy to understand and follow

By Mario R

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Oct 24, 2017

Well explained and easy to follow.

By Rajat S

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Aug 24, 2017

Extremely Helpful and Challenging.

By Walter L

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Jan 5, 2017

Very Good and informative course!!

By CHEROTICH M

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Oct 7, 2023

Very applicable in business world