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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 Kevin J

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May 25, 2020

An excellent course for newcomers to Excel! I thought the teaching approach style used was extremely helpful. The interim assessments were excellent and done in a very pragmatic style. What felt initially as possibly intimidating was dispensed with from the very first video. The student was made to feel very comfortable and

By Anupam K

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Jun 22, 2018

These is an Excellent course for each and everyone, whether you are a working professional or not. It teaches you from basics, you will feel much confident in using Excel after this course. You will be astonished how much you don't know about our humble Excel. Also, its a must course for Business professional handling data.

By Arnab P

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Jun 17, 2018

This was a great learning experience. All the courses in this specialization were awesome and the videos were detailed. The first three course assignments were easy, but the advance course did challenge me and took quite a while to complete. I recommend this course to anyone who wants to have an in depth knowledge of excel.

By Mohamed K Y

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May 28, 2023

This is an amazing course for learners. I am having a lot of fun completing this course from the starting point. It is very much enjoyable and the way the course teachers deliver every lecture superb  I recommend it to everyone that starts using excel and the ones that want to become better in understanding how it works.

By Mechanical c

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May 25, 2023

It was amazing with our course instructors Mr. Prashan Karunaratne and Mrs. Nikki. In this course, I learn deeply about how Excel really works. How to customize the data in a very nice and easy way. I'm very glad to achieve this course certificate. Thanks to Coursera for giving such a nice opportunity for students like me.

By Zebron C

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Jul 17, 2020

I discovered that i had so many gaps in Basic Excel skills. I used excel in a way one uses a scientific calculator for addition and multiplication only. Now I need to practise my newly acquired skills and share my Knowledge with colleagues for better retention. Thank you so much. Will consider going to the next level soon.

By Harshvardhana K

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Jul 15, 2020

Very good course. The best part is the quiz after every video. It helps in grasping the concept thoroughly. The course is to the point and I am pretty sure it will help everyone. I suggest anyone who is looking for an Excel course should subscribe to this one and others that come with " Excel for Business course".

Thank you

By Md A H A

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Jun 8, 2020

This is very helpful to me to learn the basics of Microsoft Excel. The instructors gave instructions which helps me to do basics work in Microsoft Excel. They also gave the shortcut key for various options which is helpful to do work quickly. The practice sheets that are given are very beneficial to understand any problem.

By Noah K

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Apr 21, 2019

I have, my whole life, been an Excel hunt-'n'-pecker. I've hated searching all over for functions that I knew existed, but could not find anywhere. This course, in 6 weeks, gave a very helpful overview, and also helped me navigate sorting, filters, charts, formulas, and more in an easy to understand way. Thank you so much!

By sayli p

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Aug 22, 2020

I really liked this course, the instructors & their teaching Methodology. This will clear your all basic Excel doubts and get you prepare to learn Intermediate & Advance versions. I am really confident with my basic excel skills now. I would like to thanks the University, instructors & Coursera. Please go for this course.

By Oluwaloni O

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Jun 3, 2023

Excel is such a powerful tool. I absolutely loved the course structure. It was comprehensive and encouraged me to practice all lessons. I also love that essential concepts were repeated all through the course making sure that the were understood. I have learnt so many new things about Excel in such a short space of time.

By Jeannette A

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Jun 9, 2020

This is a well structured class, my excel skills are self taught so essentials was really able to fill in some gaps. The practice workbooks are essential and very helpful. The format of the class is well organized and executed. I already feel more confident in my skills and ready to learn more in the intermediate levels.

By Deborah O N

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Aug 21, 2020

You think you know all the essentials? I thought so too.

Turns out I didn't. A number of processes I stressed about can actually be done automatically by following some simple steps. Want to manage and visualize your data more easily? Excel has got you covered, but you probably don't know yet. You should try this course.

By S S

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Mar 27, 2019

The course has been very well outlined and presented. I really enjoyed doing this course and flexibility of timings and doing it at my convenient phase. I will strongly recommend the course to my friends and is a platform for learning & enhancing the skills on various topics. Looking forward to continue my learning jour

By Allven C

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Jan 14, 2024

I really loved the course. It's a must course for all the beginners who want to learn and master the excel. I am really greateful that I took this course. And I am so happy right now, because I completed the finall course assessment. Feeling so happy right. In the course specially the assessment were very much helpful.

By Sarah M

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Oct 2, 2023

it was a wonderful experience learning with MACQUARIE University. it was the best Excel Training ever. everything was made easy within a short period of time. i sincerely appreciate the opportunity given to me to learn, i also appreciate my facilitators they are all great. thank you a million times God bless you all.

By Ronald W

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May 5, 2021

Very clear overview of the basics of Excel. As an experienced user of Excel I have learned what the name is of specific tools and even got to learn some shortcuts to speed up my work. If you already have some experience you will do this course in almost twice less the time as stated. Looking forward to the next course!

By Vivek A R

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Dec 25, 2019

This course structured for anyone who wants to know basic functionalities of Excel. The pedagogy was also designed to keep the student motivated by solving practical examples and to reinforce what was being taught. Overall, a perfectly designed course. Highly recommended for anyone who needs a basic knowledge of Excel!

By Linda A

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Aug 8, 2018

There was something here for everyone. It wasn't just for beginners. Even though I already had some knowledge in Excel, I gained a lot of tips and tricks I never learned before. The teachers explained good reasons for knowing certain skills and gave real examples on how to use the new skills. It was well worth taking.

By Patricia I C

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Aug 8, 2020

I've been using Excel for years but I learned about a number of tools I never bothered to use before because I didn't know how. Even if this is a basic course, it is all-encapsulating and insightful. This course is highly recommended for those who want to lay a solid foundation for learning more advanced Excel skills.

By Heather T

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Sep 13, 2018

This course does a great job of introducing Excel. The pace is good for first-timers with clear instructions, and is still a nice review for those who just need to brush up their basic Excel skills. It will not get in to some of the very technical nitty-gritty of what Excel is capable of, but is a good start/review.

By Bethany W

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Jun 17, 2018

Very informative! I started an internship and had very little exposure to excel. By the time I was done with this course I was making spreadsheets with no problem at all! I was even starting to manipulate and analyze the data independently! And to think this is only course 1? Wow!!!! My managers were very impressed :)

By Darrytt J A

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Apr 13, 2022

As a complete beginner in Excel, I have come out of this course feeling extremely comfortable and confident in basic operations of the software. The subjects covered and the speed at which the difficulty and complexity increased were perfect for anybody with minimal prior experience such as myself. Loved the course!

By Jesus D A

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Feb 18, 2021

Curso muy útil para comenzar tu andadura por el mundo de Excel. Soy español y si que es necesario cierto conocimiento de inglés para realizarlo, ya que, aunque los videos tengan subtítulos, los cuestionarios son enteramente en inglés. Muy contento con los videos, los profesores y con mi aprendizaje. Recomendable 100%

By Sandra S

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Jul 17, 2022

This was a great course. I have taken a college level course as part of my continuing education that wasn't nearly as helpful as this course was. I really enjoyed the explanations of how exel works, because it helped me have a better idea of what is going on within the spreadsheet and all the various calculations.