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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

DN

Feb 1, 2023

The explanations in this course were concise and easily understood. The course materials are very helpful with helping you get some practice in and furthering your understanding of the course content.

KG

Jun 8, 2020

Very good teaching of fundamentals. Everything was explained in a really structured manner. Final assessment was like cherry on the cake as it helped in revisiting what has been taught over the weeks.

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By Farjana Z M

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Apr 25, 2020

I found the course organized at its best effective form for the learners. Thank you so much to all who have worked for outlining the course.

By Ali N

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Apr 3, 2020

SO informative. Very easy to follow along with tutorial videos and verbal explanations. I'm so thankful I took this. I learned a great deal!

By Tanaya B

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Feb 7, 2020

I have learned so many things about excel from this course. I would like to complete another three courses from this portal..Thanks Coursera

By Anmol G

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Feb 6, 2020

This is something for which I Was looking for a long time. I would like to express my gratitude to Coursera as well as Macquarie University.

By Rohini D K

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Sep 11, 2019

The facilitators of the course set a friendly and comfortable ambience, the course was easy paced and offered flexible timelines. Excellent!

By Swapnil J

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Aug 28, 2019

Very good explanation . The assignments were very interesting.Loved this course . Will definitely do intermediate and advanced courses also.

By Zachary H

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May 2, 2019

Been a while since I really used Excel so this course was a great reintroduction and made me confident in my skills and eager to learn more!

By Huixiang Y

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Jan 14, 2019

It has been great! Indeed essential skills needed for Excel and business applications. Good use of time with great guidance from the course!

By nishitaa s

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Oct 19, 2018

I'm now really confident in my basic excel skills. This course is very helpful. It is designed beautifully. It makes excel learning and fun.

By Nihar N

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Mar 5, 2018

It was a great experience for me. Each week was taught methodically and it helped me a lot to gain confidence in Excel. Thank you very much.

By Ramanpreet K

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Sep 25, 2023

A very good excel course for beginners. I was a bit skeptical in the beginning, but this course is really effective and easy to understand.

By Vanessa B

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Aug 18, 2023

Great course for me who was not a beginner beginner, but really needed to hone up my skills! Very clear and well put together! Thank you!

By Marybeth K

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Oct 3, 2022

I learned everything so well. The workbooks and quizes are excellent! Each step was explained so that the beginner understands everything.

By Daniella A N

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Mar 19, 2022

This course is so amazing, I'm so I glad I enrolled in this course my Knowledge of Excel is better and I think everyone shoud enroll in it.

By Gyanendra A

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Dec 26, 2021

Very well articulated material and precise and to the point explanation for each topic. I would surely suggest my peers to do this course.

By samarth c

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Dec 17, 2021

I had a mindbogling experience during my course completion journey and from my side it's a must do course for every corporate professional.

By Vandana M

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May 19, 2021

Dear sir/madam,

Thankyou because you have me given this opportunity to learn new excel skills. It was my great experience of learning excel.

By Mitali.

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Apr 17, 2021

Excellent course for beginners and even for folks who have little knowledge of Excel. Very organized and useful study material and quizzes.

By Teresa

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Feb 1, 2021

Clear, simple videos make learning Excel easy and fun. The mini quizzes are helpful and the end of week Assessments are really challenging.

By Md. M H

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Jan 7, 2021

An excellent course it it! This is the best course I attended ever. Thanks to the authority concerned for giving me a chance to achieve it.

By César A A R

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Nov 21, 2020

A course very well explained and based on practice , you learn a lot and final exam, if it puts you to the test , on what you have learned.

By Natalia P P

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Oct 18, 2020

I feel that I learned many things about Excel that I did not know before, I am very grateful and happy because now I know many Excel tricks

By Muksetul A

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Sep 26, 2020

For someone who is about to step into the professional workspace, this course is ideal for learning the quinitessential details of MS Excel

By Md M H

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Sep 19, 2020

It was a very good course. Easy and sublime presentation. I would like to thank Nicky and Dr. Prashan and also Thanks Macquarie University.

By abba s

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Aug 26, 2020

I've used excel for years, but the essentials course showed me a lot of gaps in my knowledge. Can't wait to start the Intermediate 1 course