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About the Course

Spreadsheet software remains 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. In the United States alone, millions of job advertisements requiring Excel skills are posted every day. Research by Burning Glass Technologies and Capital One shows that digitals skills lead to higher income and better employment opportunities at a time when digital skills job are growing much faster than non-digital jobs. In this second course of our Excel specialization Excel Skills for Business you will build on the strong foundations of the Essentials course. Intermediate Skills I will expand your Excel knowledge to new horizons. You are going to discover a whole range of skills and techniques that will become a standard component of your everyday use of Excel. In this course, you will build a solid layer of more advanced skills so you can manage large datasets and create meaningful reports. These key techniques and tools will allow you to add a sophisticated layer of automation and efficiency to your everyday tasks in Excel. Once again, we have brought together a great teaching team that will be with you every step of the way. Prashan and Nicky will guide you through each week (and I am even going to make a guest appearance in Week 5 to help you learn about my favourite tool in Excel - shh, no spoilers!). Work through each new challenge step-by-step and in no time you will surprise yourself by how far you have come. This time around, we are going to follow Uma's trials and tribulations as she is trying to find her feet in a new position in the fictitious company PushPin. For those of you who have done the Essentials course, you will already be familiar with the company. Working through her challenges which are all too common ones that we encounter everyday, will help you to more easily relate to the skills and techniques learned in each week and apply them to familiar and new contexts....

Top reviews

OD

Jul 28, 2020

The length of the video lectures are just right and the numbers of exercises or quizzes are just right. Learned a lot of new things about Excel's functionality. A huge step from the Essentials course.

SS

Dec 3, 2020

Amazing course. I am amazed by the value provided by the instructors. The Pivot Tables in Week 6 is a must for everyone working with Excel. I am glad I chose this course over the other online courses.

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By uday k

Oct 3, 2020

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By PAUL D

Oct 3, 2020

NICE

By Henrique C S

Jul 29, 2020

good

By Bhagirath T

Jul 3, 2020

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Jun 14, 2020

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Jun 10, 2020

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May 26, 2020

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Oct 24, 2019

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By Shadi H S

Feb 10, 2019

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By Oscar A C S

Jun 15, 2022

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By Sergei P

May 7, 2024

The delivery is highly professional. The course started off well with the first two modules being easy to follow. However, the quality seemed to decline thereafter due to several reasons: Lack of thorough explanations: While it is shown how to use a certain tool, the course often fails to provide the rationale behind that (why it is used). Unnecessary complexity: The assignments and assessments are occasionally overly complex, requiring additional research. Disconnect between lectures and assignments: The assignments and assessments often seemed unrelated (to some extent) to the lectures. Course structure: The course provides a “Toolbox” with terms and tips at the end of each week. However, it would have been more beneficial if this was introduced at the beginning of each week. This way the leaner may understand the new concepts better; that would also help to complete the assignments. The course does not have any prerequisites. However, I believe that someone new to Excel would struggle beyond Module 3. Even with my decent level of Excel skills, I found the course challenging, especially after Intermediate I. On top of that you would need some understanding of financial analysis when in Advanced module. Therefore, I would not recommend this course to those without some Excel skills or accounting background. There are plenty of online resources for understanding Excel, such as exceljet.net, trumpexcel.com, and Microsoft Support. Overall, the course left me feeling unsatisfied. I felt that I should have opted for a different course, but since I was already halfway through, I decided to finish it. If you do not need a certificate, I would suggest looking for alternatives. However, if you are already skilled and just seeking a recognition, this course might be suitable for you.

By Omar E

Apr 13, 2020

need more examples for the quizzes ,solving the practice can get frustrating as some problem are not in the practice video and in some cases the practice can be harder than the week assessment and final assessment ,otherwise the course is good

By Florian Z

Sep 7, 2020

The course was very well structured and I learned a lot. However, some exercises were not possible to do with a mac and showed the wrong results even though the calculation is right. Therefore, should have been more explanation and solutions.

By Sinan O

Feb 26, 2022

After week 2, I had to drop the course. Some quizes were too hard for me to solve. I could not find the right answer no matter how hard i tried. Still, thanks everyone for the dedicated and precious work.

By Jorge R d O

Mar 26, 2020

Some instructions are ambigous so you dont know how to execute some task in the final test and in the works, but I have learned a lot. And manage better excel now, thats true

By James P

Apr 25, 2021

Maybe have a more up-to-date version of excel and consider hemisphere differences. Other than that it's a good course maybe add parts explaining common mistakes people make.

By Gabriel B

Nov 28, 2022

In the first few weeks, many things were poorly explained. I didn't get to learn many things about Consolidate. But the course was of great learning in Dynamic Table.

By andres s

Aug 14, 2018

The course is ok, but it needs to be explained deeply. As there are some questions in the exams that are way more complex that what it´s explained on the videos

By Takako S

Jul 13, 2020

great program. i just struggled to get through assignment, since I only have a chrome book and google sheet and I have to figure out many commands for them.

By manish R

May 27, 2020

TO LEARN THIS COURSE IS VERY BENEFICIAL FOR MY CAREER ENHANCEMENT AND UPDATION OF MY PROFILE WHICH HELPS ME WORKING IN GOOD CORPORATES CULTURE

By John J G S D

Aug 31, 2022

The course is good but in a lot of places, the options in excel for Mac are different which the course doesn't really cover.

By Marisa N

Aug 14, 2021

Tests must reflect what is thought, otherwise what is the point in attending classes. We don't know what we don't know.

By Brian Z

Jan 23, 2019

Informative, but not as complete as I would have preferred. The examples were a little scant on some of the videos.

By Tutu O

Apr 20, 2020

class lecture did not provide enough examples to be able to do some of the quizzes and final exam comfortably.

By Lucas W

Aug 5, 2020

Overwhelming content with so many functions to remember. I can see usefulness in learning every element.