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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

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.

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!

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By Mahjabeen F

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Sep 17, 2020

Amazing course, I feel more confident in using Excel. I never thought I will enjoy using excel in my day to day life. The course is best for the beginner as well as people who want to get familiar with the terminology of excel. Can't wait to subscribe for the intermediate course.

By Mirana R

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May 11, 2020

That's an excellent course. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning basic yet essential Excel skills. Very well structured, instructions are clear and the videos well explained. Above all, it's done in a friendly and interactive way, I enjoyed the whole thing! Thanks

By Mona G

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Apr 27, 2020

This course was very interesting. I liked the way they explained (one step at a time). for those who had no idea about Excel, I strongly recommend the course. To be honest, I spent a much longer time than given for each week, but it was worth the hours. A big thank you to the team.

By Shannon P

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Sep 29, 2019

Excellent beginners course. Lots of practice and quizzes to ensure you understand the content. Some of the questions were tricky, but overall a very fair course. Final Assessment is a nice challenge. However, if you follow the directions correctly, it is very easy to attain a 100%.

By Ravi

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Jan 13, 2023

I loved this course so much. It is so interesting and has been designed in such a manner where you can always learn it in an interactive way. superb and Now I can say I am in love with Excel . My special thank to Nicky Bull and Dr. Prashan. This course makes Excel easy and loving.

By ivan a

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Dec 16, 2021

The format for this course is quite easy to follow and way its structured its just awesome. Both Instructors are clear and concise on the instruction, so it makes you want to engage even more. The examples, quizzes, and test are just enough to get you going in the right direction.

By Sharon T

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Sep 6, 2021

This class made the Excel learning so much easier because of the instructors knowledge and delivery. Being able to review the instructions helps for easier retention for specific steps as well as the software program that takes notes!

Thank you for putting this together so well!

By Rajiv R

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Jun 8, 2021

course is too appropriate for any background student and this course will ensure you a great practice . you have to score minimum 80% to pass each of tests and assignments. So if you are thinking for learning ms excel then without wasting your much time you can go for this course.

By michael z

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Aug 21, 2020

Excellent course. Whilst I already knew some of the course content, I was able to to learn the actual temrs for actions (e.g. conditional formatting rahter than 'that thing when you make stuff stand out'). I also learnt a number of new things. I would highly reccomend this course.

By Oderay M

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Aug 9, 2020

Felicidades a Mí, y a todos los que han completado este nivel. Fue una experiencia fabulosa y retadora ya que no domino el idioma, sin embargo esto me incentivó a seguir y estudiar más para cumplir con el objetivo. Ahora a seguir con el siguiente nivel.

Al infinito y más allá!!!!

By Steven R

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Aug 1, 2020

I really enjoyed this course. Even though I've been using Excel for years, I learned something in every segment of this course. The structure and pace made it easy to learn and and the exercises and quizzes did a good job of reinforcing learning which leads to excellent retention.

By Muhammad A S

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Jun 16, 2020

Perfect course for students who don't know how to use excel or those who are beginners. I have learned quite a lot of Excel skills for business in this course very comfortably. I would surely suggest this course to business students who are looking forward to acquire excel skills.

By Gerald P

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Oct 13, 2019

Fantastic course. Gave me the fundaments and also realised how much more there is still to learn. Excel is certainly very powerful I cannot believe there are another 2 levels of study. Great teaching with videos, reading material and exercises all adding to he learning experience.

By Iris w

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Feb 26, 2019

Absolutely wonderful course, impeccable teaching/instruction and LOVE THE PACE OF THE SPEAKERS. They really go out of their way to make sure you understand each step one by one, and provide great examples of how do use the tools and functions. highly recommend this specialization!

By diah d

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Sep 7, 2022

It has been joyful one month learning experience with Macquarie University. I enjoy each week learning process .all the materials and post quiz for each practice video is what Ilike the most about this course, it helps me to practice right away what I have learnt from the videos.

By Leonard C R

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Nov 24, 2020

While I already had some knowledge of Excel I am happy for the increased knowledge gain via this course. I have gained a greater awareness of certain features of Excel and this has thus increased my skills. Videos are well instructed and I am excited to move on to the next level.

By Miriam S

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Nov 16, 2020

Even as an intermediate user, I found this essentials course taught me valuable new skills, filling in a couple gaps and teaching me nifty features I had not discovered on my own. The lectures are very competent and seemed clear and straightforward, and laid out in logical order.

By Suyash K

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Jun 3, 2020

Hello,I am Suyash Khadayate from INDIA.Before taking this course i was not familiar with the different tools present in the MS Excel.and how to use them.After taking this course it helped me a lot to know more in deep about the excel .It will be helpul for me in future .Thankyou.

By Syed M A S B

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Sep 20, 2018

Exceptionally great course. Totally practical and great way of teaching. I really improved my skills in excel and now I'm heading for the specialization of Excel Skills for Business. I will be doing all the four courses. Thanks to Coursera, Macquarie University and special thanks

By Ruben D M V

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Nov 30, 2020

5 stars are not enough! Amazing course, extremelly well explained and detailed, lessons with right lenght and right level to test skills. The interface, the challenges, the tests, everything is on spot. More than excited to take the next 3 courses to complete the specialization!

By Jitin S

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Oct 9, 2020

This is for those who are beginner and would prefer to build strong basics. Nevertheless, it would require patience to grow step by step. Great explanations of concepts by instructors, specially Dr, Prashan's way of putting the problem statement in the beginning of every module.

By Rafi A C

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Jul 5, 2020

Before starting this course I knew a few little things about Microsoft excel. After doing this course with Coursera under Macquarie University I feel more comfortable with excel. Hopefully, the next course will make me more comfortable. In a word, I am having an awesome feeling.

By Ruthwik

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Mar 28, 2020

A good experience, mostly for beginners who want to learn the basics. Some things which were meant to be difficult like filtering and sorting the data were explained with ease and those tests were very helpful for me to analyze and practice those areas where I lacked confidence.

By Felipe A D

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Dec 16, 2019

An excellent course that revises all the most important skills that Excel offers. I noticed that while I was getting along the content, I started to make better and nicer reports with much more tools and better data visualisation.

This course really made the difference in my job.

By A P

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Sep 20, 2022

very well structured and will be definetely challenging for those who have little experience

or for thos who have not ventured out the basics of excel.I have been using excel for many years but still found a lot of value and gained further knowledge about the program.

Cheerio!