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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....

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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 LUSHELLE A A

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Nov 1, 2020

This course was really a big help to me since I don't have any proper trainings about Microsoft Excel. I realized that, I don't have the full knowledge of this application. By enrolling this course, I am confident to use the other tools (which I didn't use before) to make reports efficiently.

By Francine N

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Nov 1, 2020

The title says it all, it is indeed the essentials for business and this will help you gain expertise, especially when you are just getting started with Excel! Pity I did not know about this earlier, this would have helped me during our Excel class in high school. A good course to start with!

By Ruby K

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Sep 10, 2020

The journey through Excel skills for Business:Essentials on coursera has been wonderful and insightful, with numerous assignments and work challenges to get you thinking! I really had fun and this is a stepping stone to higher journeys in Excel which I am looking forward to!Thanks Coursera!

By Colin B

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Oct 10, 2019

Expertly done. The interaction through quizzes played a huge role in cementing the concepts. I also loved how they taught you additional things through the readings and quizzes and almost forced you to open Excel and play around to find answers that weren't said in the videos. Very well done!

By Jason C

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Oct 9, 2018

Great course for beginners. Much of this was a review for me, but I did learn some keyboard and navigation shortcuts that I wasn't aware of before. Course content was easy to follow and exercises were great. Will be taking the Intermediate and Advanced courses through Macquarie University.

By Christopher T

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Dec 13, 2021

Very thorough and comprehensive. I've used Excel for a few years and this course gave me background knowledge I hadn't learned through being self-taught.

I do wish the toolbox appeared earlier in the sequence of tasks for the week. That way I could use that Toolbox knowledge during my tasks.

By Abhishek B

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Nov 17, 2021

A very great , amazing ,knowledgeable course , if you don't know how to use excel , this is the place where you can learn with excellent teachers, . great content ,challenge and tests helped me a lot in learning MS excel without getting bored . thank you coursera and macquarie university .

By Sebastian O C G

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May 10, 2021

muy buen curso, me ha ayudado mucho a entender lo básico que no sabia de Excel y a reforzar mis conocimientos previos, recomendadisimo.

Very good course, it has helped me a lot to understand the basics that I did not know about Excel and to reinforce my previous knowledge, highly recommended.

By Olga S

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Jan 12, 2021

I loved the course: it is easy to follow, always learning something new, comprehensive, encouraging. I really enjoyed it and will continue taking more advanced Excel courses with the same University. There is only one remark - it is a bit old, however, it did not bother me at all. THANK YOU!

By Johnatan R

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Dec 21, 2020

Great start to get you on the right track to learning more advance Excel. If you already know basics I would still recommend this course as it will help as a refresher plus you can finish it quickly. I have years of experience using the basics and it took me a bit over a week to get it done!

By Jocelyn P

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Sep 4, 2020

I had very limited experience with using Excel, so I really enjoyed taking this course. It helped me understand how to navigate and use the various tools and features of Microsoft Excel more effectively and efficiently to stay productive. Thank you Prashan and Nicky for teaching this course!

By Carlos I P G

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Jul 30, 2020

Empecé este curso con muy poco conocimiento de excel y ahora me siento con más confianza para continuar con los siguientes cursos, cabe mencionar que también estoy aprendiendo inglés por lo que también me lo tomé como un reto de aprender cierto vocabulario, so then, practice makes permanent!

By Chirag S G

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Jun 28, 2020

One of the best course attended by me. The level of understanding through this course is outstanding . each and every concept is explain in such a way that it makes you to learn more and more and get deep into the topic. The tutor's Prashan sir and Nicky ma'am are just fanstatic. Thankyou!!

By Deborah S

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May 27, 2020

An excellent well devised course with affable, likable teachers. Far exceeded my expectations. Thank you. You've raised the bar high, hope other courses are as good on Coursera.

A tiny niggle, can't figure out how to get out of 'sort' and revert worksheet to what it was. Filter is fine.

By NILMADHAV M

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Apr 19, 2020

It is a very useful course for beginners as well as any student.It does not matter which position are you standing or what is your stream.It is very basic certification course for excel.i hope everyone enjoyed this work when they perform their works.

Thank you couresera & my Institution also.

By Sanith U

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Apr 12, 2020

I really loved how Nikki and Prashan explained the way excel worked. It was meaningful and easy to understand. I was able to navigate through excel like a professional by the end of the course.

The assessment and quiz really helped me to navigate through the course.

Thank You to both Of you!

By Adnan I A K A

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May 1, 2022

I learned very useful tools and shortcuts. The course allowed me to try those tools make mistakes and learn from them. The course was so clear and undertstandable, the structure of the course was so smooth and will presented. Would like thank MACQUARIE University for providing such courses.

By SANJAY K

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Mar 5, 2021

It's an amazing course for beginners, I would say perfect foundation, The tutor Explantation of the content was accurate and easy to understand. Doing this course and completing the final assignment will help you to get more control over Excel and unlock the real potential of the softrware.

By Monika R

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Nov 13, 2020

Amazing course, guiding a learner through all essential Excel options step by step. I recommend it also to those who think they know Excel. This course helped me fill in the gaps I had. All knowledge provided here is extremely useful, not only at work but also when organizing private stuff.

By Isah M

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Oct 6, 2020

Am Mohammed a tech geek, I took this wonderful course to increase my knowledge in excel and it has help me alot. In fact I was introduced to many things I don't know before. The Instructors are very excellent in impacting knowledge, I look forward to learning more from them.

Thank you all

By Alina M

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Sep 6, 2020

It is such a great course with a lot of practical tasks and clear explanations. This is definitely the source that helps you learn more about excel from the very beginning. Thanks to the whole team that did an amazing job with this course. I will definitely be recommending it to my friends.

By Naziza M H

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Jun 30, 2020

The course was fun. It is organised in small videos along with practice videos which is very handy. I really liked the course. I could finish it way ahead of schedule for its layout of the course. This course helped me a lot to brush up my excel skills. Thank you Coursera and my University.

By Ayleen M A H

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May 27, 2020

So good, very good course to touch on the basics of Excel. Doesn't matter how proficient you think you are at Excel, there's always chance to learn something new, which is exactly what I did. There were many things and tricks I was able to learn because of this course. Totally recommended!!

By Charlotte J L

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Mar 3, 2019

Very systematic and extremely useful. I'm having an internship right now and this course increase my productivity a lot. Will upgrade the course and earn a certificate later when I have time to finish all the exercises. Thanks all the lecturers and ppl who contribute to making this course!!

By 2K19/PE/035 M

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Nov 1, 2022

I enjoyed the course and learned a lot from it. The content is well organised and focused on practical situations. I particularly enjoyed the bits of psychological research shared in the content. This course was short but very informative and very helpful for an aspiring leader like myself