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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 Vishesh A

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Jan 5, 2022

I have been using excel for time for basic office work and I learned a lot from this course. The best thing about the course was how the quiz questions are designed to make you think and answer. Just like educators promised, it makes you think and practice. Loved it thoroughly.

By Marilena P

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Feb 2, 2021

A fantastic course for beginners, every single week is excellently curated, the items are explained very well and in simple terms, the videos are very straightforward, and the quizzes and tips are really great. A top notch course, can't wait to complete the full specialisation.

By Marija R

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Dec 10, 2020

I never thought I'll say this, but you guys made me LOVE excel!!! the challenges, tips, homework, hacks, interesting topics, the way you presented each week is just so interesting! This is very very useful and I will continue doing intermediate and expert levels too .Thank you!

By Nestor O C B

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Apr 22, 2020

Great course!!!

Even if you think that you have the basic knowledge of Excel, there is always something new that you can learn or refresh.

I have been working with excel for about 5 years now and this course helped me to refresh my knowledge and I learned new tips and shortcuts.

By William J C

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May 5, 2019

Already knowing a bit of the basics on Microsoft Excel, I've learned more than what I had already known in regards to formulas/functions and how to adequately create/edit charts. This was a great refresher and helpful with learning the essential through the wide spectrum excel.

By Brian T

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Feb 26, 2019

A great beginner course for excel users of any level. This course delivers a great experience and has increased my knowledge and confidence with Excel and exposed me to various techniques and shortcuts which will undoubtedly be very useful for my personal and professional life.

By Peter R

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Jun 10, 2018

Excellent course.Being familiar with Excel before I did not want to take course initially and move directly to intermediate level. I am glad I took. A lot of information and tips I was not aware of.Strongly recommend for anyone who is planning to excel her/his Excel competence.

By Lalita C

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Mar 13, 2022

The course is well designed and helps build a good foundation of fundamental skills. They somehow managed to not make it boring but instead fun and interesting. Even if you know these skills already, there's always tips and tricks that you could learn that could become useful.

By vanessa p

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Dec 15, 2020

I've been using Excel for almost 20 years, always struggling to find my way.

I feel so much more confident after this course. I've learned a lot and the teachers are great and explain everything very clearly. I would definetely recommend this course to anyone who is self-taught

By Nykeza I

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Dec 2, 2020

The course is very good, practical and relates to real world scenarios. Alot of information is shared, guidance is provided in each step and it caters for different learning styles. I enjoyed learning at my pace and I am grateful for the skills I have developed in using excel.

By Pat G

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Sep 9, 2020

Since I have used templates containing many of these formulas and functions in my work, most of them came quickly and easily. The review and application were very helpful! I am looking forward to the challenges of the next course, though I expect to take longer to complete it.

By Gulshan S

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Aug 23, 2020

It was an awesome experience for me to learn all this stuff about excell at cheap cost. This course made me realize that we need to work hard and understand the concept in order to qualify to learn anything.Thank you prasan and nikki ma'am. Mr Prasann looks like an Indian guy.

By Girish S

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May 31, 2020

A very wholesome introduction to Excel. Printing Excel sheets was quite a daunting task for me due to which I have faced embarrassment in office on more than one occasion. Having passed this course, I now am much more confident with my Excel skills. Thanks to the instructors!!

By Tammie V

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Apr 17, 2018

The class was challenging, yet explained very well. I felt much more confident in my basic knowledge of Excel. Would definitely recommend it to others! I work exceptionally long hours, and though it was challenging at times, I felt a strong sense of accomplishments! Thank you!

By Vinicius P

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Mar 30, 2024

a course that opens your mind and with the methodology that instigates and forces learning, at first you feel uncomfortable but soon it takes off. If there is one course I would recommend, it would be this one. Thank you to everyone involved who prepared this wonderful course

By Tom N

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Jul 4, 2022

It has been a while since I took my excel course in college. This course was a great introductory back into the world of excel and surely helped me remember all the basic excel functions. I would recommend moving on to the intermediate for those who are in the business world.

By Andrew S

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Feb 9, 2021

Very good course. I've used Excel for decades and there were more than a few things I didn't know already from this fundamentals course. I do wish Prashan would learn to talk without his nonsensical distracting hand gestures, but otherwise the content and format were great.

By Aishwarya D

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Jan 18, 2021

This is a very good course for Beginners, the course layout is very detailed and well organized. This course has helped me to build a strong foundation for data analysis using Excel. Thanks a lot to Nikki, Pranshan, and everybody who is involved in making this amazing course.

By Ricardo N F

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Dec 23, 2020

I use Excel for my school in a daily basis, and i thought i knew all the answers when it comes to using excel, but this course made me realize how wrong i was, and actually, the skills i learned here will help me to be more efficient, clean and professional. Excellent course.

By Maike D

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Sep 18, 2020

Some quizz questions seemed to be geared towards MS users. As I am a Mac user and some functionalities vary, I wasn't able to answer a couple of course questions correctly. Otherwise, it's a great course and I love the interactive format with loads of quizzes and assignments!

By Dina i

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Jun 26, 2020

This course is really helpful even if you think you know the basics of excel there are still a lot to learn where, by self-learning most of the time there are some gaps this course can fill these gaps. you will be able to learn how to be creative and fast using the shortcuts.

By Nehha V P

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May 5, 2020

Excellent Course I learnt a lot a big thanks to the Instructors Nikki and Prasan who made the course content so simple and easy to learn, it was fun solving the excersises and the Toolkit is really helpful and Informative.

Most recommended if you want your basics to get clear.

By Leidy L G R

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Feb 2, 2019

Great course. I like how everything is explained, with real-life examples and a lot of practice files. I was surprised when I realized that there were a lot of shortcuts (that I didn't know) and better and easier ways to work in excel which makes my work faster and efficient.

By shruti n

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Jan 21, 2021

There is a lot of things in excel that I got to know which will help me in my future. the tricks and shortcuts will certainly save more time and with this course, I better understood excel. There is no limit what one might learn and this course certainly expanded my horizon!

By Andreanna G

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Jul 24, 2020

Challenging enough for the self-taught, but easy enough for the complete beginner to follow along. The tests gave constructive criticism when you get wrong answers. Practical Challenges were very fun to accomplish as you can see how lessons can apply in real life situations!