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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 Francisco B

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Apr 29, 2019

Great course, great professors. It is really excellent the way these professors explain. Thank you very much Coursera, and thank you very much to the University of Macquarie. The way this course was developed is fantastic. Congratulations. Francisco , Costa Rica.

By Beau B

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Mar 18, 2019

This course has changed the way I interact with data driven projects. I am finding new ways to implement my Excel knowledge every day. The cross over, learning Excel helps one run Sales Force graphs, as an example, is endless. I couldn't recommend this class more!

By Ashish G

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Dec 15, 2018

This course was exceptionally good and instructors were phenomenal. Any layman can understand and develop his skills in excel. I was lucky to find this course on coursera, as it laid the basic foundation for excel. I would highly recommend this course to everyone.

By Chama R

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Feb 27, 2024

I didn't know much about excel but after completing the course i feel competent in using excel. the videos were short, easy to follow and straight to the point. I enjoyed the content in this course all the way from the beginning till the end. Thank you very much.

By Steven B

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Oct 25, 2022

Learned a lot of new things on this Excel course. Tough course for the beginner, but it challenges you to remember and think of how to get through the course. If one likes challenges this is the course for you. I found it fun learning Excel through this course.

By Angelica L

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Aug 3, 2021

I learned a lot from this course even though I had already some background knowledge about Microsoft Excel but it helps me a lot to explore important functions of this application that I can apply in my work. Thank you so much for having this amazing opportunity!

By Phokoane A K

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Jan 7, 2021

Great course content. Enjoyed the videos because I prefer watching videos over reading. The practice quizzes and assessments that come with workbooks are also a great way to consolidate each week's content and give the learner a chance to practice with real data.

By Jizel f

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Oct 22, 2020

The instructors were amazing and the videos were great. I love how they broke down everything which made it simple and easy to understand and follow along in practice. I feel a lot more confident trying to navigate excel but as always "practice makes permanent".

By RAHUL S

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Aug 20, 2020

This course not just teaches you it always makes you practice the previous sessions so that you are always updated. This course is designed in such a way that if you forget the earlier completed session you cannot proceed further with learning the concepts again.

By Clement A A

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Aug 11, 2020

This has really improved my skills in excel and increased my confidence as well. The course is really uplifting and made very easy to understand. I really love the practical aspect of things in this course. The instructors are very good. I have enjoyed it. Thanks

By Md F S

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Jun 14, 2020

This is one of the core concept course for whom want to learn excel lots of basic things are in here. So it will help to improve basic knowledge and it will also create strong concept which will helps to do batter in advance excel courses as well as in workpless

By Joanne O

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May 10, 2020

Great Essentials course. Most of us are self taught excel users, however this course teaches us the small things eg. shortcuts that we may have not picked up along the way. Great for reinforcing what you know. Looking forward to the next instalment of the series.

By José d J H B

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Jul 25, 2019

This was a great course. Although I had already some knowledge about excel, this course gave me some other tools that I did not know and I filled some gaps that I had in this program. I really like the activities and the way this course reinforced your knowledge.

By Kim L K

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Jan 29, 2022

Honestly, this is the best training course I've ever taken. Having side interactions throughout kept me engaged and focused. The instructors are thorough and provide great resource links to follow after each lesson. I'd definitely share this course with others!

By Ahmed R

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Oct 14, 2021

To sum Up its an amazing course it helps me alot at dealing with the first steps at Excel which i can use later to build a huge experience for me and also thanks for accepting my financial aid which give me a great motivation to finish this course Till the End .

By Randhir S

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Dec 31, 2020

I am so very happy that i stuck with this course, dedicating time towards this course was a challenge. I learned so much that i didn't know before from just casually using Excel. I will definitely be using what i have learned so far in my personal use of Excel.

By Nelia I T

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Oct 1, 2020

Quite challenging. I thought I am already good in excel, but taking the quizzes after watching the videos, I realized that there are many things that I don't know yet in using this spreadsheet. Thank you for the opportunity to learn and increase my excel skills.

By Grover P

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Aug 28, 2020

Me enseñaron bastantes herramientas para poder organizar mis hojas de cálculo de una manera más elegante y precisa. Todos los vídeos, lecturas y consejos me ayudaron a poder dar formato, encontrar mis datos rápidamente y a mejorar mis habilidades en el programa.

By EDUARDO B G

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Jun 22, 2020

Me pareció un curso muy integro, completo y con explicaciones muy detalladas que permite entender cada tema, detalle y/o herramienta.

Agradezco a la Universidad MCQUARIE por curso tan bien diseñado y a Coursera por crear estos puentes de capacitación profesional.

By Aasif K

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May 10, 2020

Excellent step by step learning through a well guided course material and supported with quality excel worksheets created for self-assessment and self-exploring. Thank You and shall be looking forward for further learning experience through Macquarie University.

By Jey S

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Sep 4, 2021

Muy bueno. Aunque uno crea que conoce "lo básico" de excel, con este curso te das cuenta que hay mucho por aprender. Los videos son bastante digeribles y el hecho de que tengan bastantes prácticas después de los videos ayuda a aplicar lo aprendido. Recomendado.

By Laura M S R

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Apr 16, 2021

This was an excellent course that helped me so much to not only understand Excel but to appreciate it as well because of all the useful tools it has for us. Completely grateful to the instructors because they made this course interesting and easy to understand!

By Christine T S Y

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Oct 22, 2020

I personally think that this course is beneficial and comprehensive for people who is new in excel. It also provides guidance on what to expect in using excel for analysis, presentation and work efficiency. The teaching materials are also very useful and clear.

By Piotr J

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Oct 6, 2020

I liked this course. It was helpful, easy to navigate, clear, refreshing and I also gathered a few hints, I wasn't aware of before. I am looking forward to continue to next levels, where I guess real challenge will begin ;)

Thank you and good luck to all of you!

By Anthony G

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Jul 23, 2020

Although I'm not a beginner I decided to take a step back and refresh my knowledge. I was shocked at how much I had either forgotten or didn't know about, so although there was a lot of subject matter I already knew of, I am so pleased I started at this level.