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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 Intisarul A

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Oct 3, 2023

A very well organized and detailed course, that addresses every possible issue that arises using MS Excel. Specially the assessments are very well crafted and really makes sure that the learner has gained the best understanding of the techniques and ways around MS Excel.

By Thanuja K

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Dec 20, 2022

It is very good course and i have learnt lot of things that is very essential for me, but the assignment session even though i gave correct answer that was evaluated it as wrong after some attempts i have reached the goal of 80% please consider correct answers. Thank You

By shahid e

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May 24, 2021

It was a great journey. Before joining the course, I thought this Course gonna be boring, But it was totally the opposite. The way they designed the course in short videos and assignments made it really interesting and easy. I highly recommend people to join this course.

By Pragyaa

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Feb 8, 2021

Fantastic course. Now, not just because of the tutorials, but the exercises were so well planned! It also shows the effort the makers put into this course's structure. And the final assessment really stood up to its title. Felt thoroughly challenged and yet appreciative.

By SJ H

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Nov 25, 2020

This is one of the best instructor led courses i've ever taken on Coursera. You will have to speed the videos up slightly, but i'd rather it be too slow than too fast with software. If everyone at this University teaches like this, I will gladly attend. Everyone say wow.

By Midulaj S

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Oct 27, 2020

As a student who used excel only for sums and products, this is a tremendous change for me. Learned a lot from this course. This course also helped me solve problems in my Spreadsheet Modeling Course at my Institute. My heartfelt gratitude to the entire team behind this.

By Trisha D

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Oct 22, 2020

Very enriching course. I immediately used the material I learned over the past 6 weeks at work. Ideal course for finance specialist (entry and mid-level). Very friendly and happy staff. The course is well-structured with plenty of resources for additional support- Trisha

By Alex A C d l C

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Sep 29, 2020

A little bit harder for non-english speakers because questions on tasks remains in english though the translate tool in chrome and sometimes the vocabulary is very specific, that make it confusing, I did my best, Thanks for this course. Final Assesment make me so nervous

By SUMEET M

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May 7, 2020

Their methodical approach towards exploring new terminologies and properties of excel is fabulous for a beginner in any stage of life, be it a 10-year-old or an elderly person.

Just loved the whole experience with short and brief explanation to all of the basic concepts .

By Demetrius W

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Dec 8, 2019

I really enjoyed the videos and step by step tutorials. The lectures coupled with instruction helped build my confidence to use these skills in the workplace. Thank you for taking the time to create this course. I look forwards to taking more courses offered by Coursera.

By Sebastian A

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Aug 7, 2019

Excellent Course:

There are one or two of the quizzes and tests that either require more explanation or have different data on Mac than the one displayed on the test, but aside from that I found absolutely no complications and my skills in excel have been vastly improved.

By M R

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Jun 29, 2021

This was such an amazing and eye-opening course. I am elated I decided to learn excel and Nicky Bull alongside Dr Prashan has made it unbelievably convenient and I could feel the effort that they have expended on this course. Truly am appreciative & grateful. Thank you.

By Karthik N D

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May 9, 2020

The learning was incredible. i actually learnt a lot of new things. But, there seems to be something seriously wrong with the final assessment. A couple of answers which were shown as correct on the previous try started showing as wrong on the next try. Kindly fix that.

By Mohammad S I H

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May 3, 2020

Exceptionally well-designed and articulated course. The instructors have done a great job. They have kept it short, easy, and fun the whole time. Definitely recommended for anybody who is just starting out or struggling due to lack of quality instructions and resources.

By Muhammad L

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Dec 23, 2018

I was nothing when I joined but now I can surely say I am something after all the instructions and knowledge grabbed from Coursera. No doubt a friendly site easy to learn, easy to stay on. Thanks Coursera Thanks HEC Pakistan for given me a chance to learn something new.

By Anna G

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Dec 13, 2017

Very good course to fill the gaps in your knowledge or to gain exact that knowledge if you're just getting familiar with Excel. I loved the videos, very descriptive, but not too much and the course is built in a way that reinforces just learned material in several ways.

By Donovan L

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Jan 20, 2021

I thought this course was very well thought out. Each section was easy to navigate. I enjoyed the intro and exit speech given by the staff members. I appreciate the testing your knowledge after each section as well. I truly enjoyed the course - well done and thank you!

By Abhinav W

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Nov 27, 2020

This course is absolutely fantastic. Learning MS Excel from here saves you a lot of time. The simplicity to understand it and the short length of highly informative videos is what makes it beyond incredible. Highly recommended to everyone thinking about pursuing excel.

By Adithya M

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Nov 24, 2020

IT WAS A VERY NEW EXPERIENCE IN TERMS OF ONLINE EDUCATION AND I WAS VERY NERVOUS AT THE BEGINNING REGARDING HOW THE COURSES GOES ON ,BUT THANKS TO ALL THE ORGANISERS AND STAFF FOR HAVING A FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT WITH GOOD EASE OF STUDYING PATTERN WITH NOT MUCH OF BURDEN.

By Alif B P

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Nov 17, 2020

This course is so wonderfull, I thought i was expert in excel, but after iam taking this course, it's really need detail, practice, and more exploring-oriented. There are so much things that i didn't know, but, after i take this course, iam totally improved on. Thanks!

By Saifullah A M

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Jul 17, 2020

Simply a wonderful course. This course is a must for all the professionals and the students as well. The instructors are just awesome and you will understand almost everything they demonstrate.

Eagerly looking forward to take the other 3 courses of this specialization!

By Sanjida A K

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Oct 27, 2019

Thanks a lot for this sophisticated opportunity that has enriched my Excel skill and and my Knowledge about its usage and facts. I have learnt so many things of Excel and many interesting usage of it. Thanks will be lesser than what I have achieved through this course.

By Laura R

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Dec 31, 2018

A very well structured course to revise as well as learn some hacks about Excel's foundations. The clear and thorough lessons together with the practice exercises allow to review the basic features and build solid bases before more advanced courses. Highly recommended.

By Adam D

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Jan 31, 2021

In a lot of quizzes there were problems to choose proper option, because of bad scaling of question and answers. Besides, thanks to this course finally I know something about Excel and I can work with that awesome tool. Of course I will be continue this Excel courses.

By Suzette S

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Jan 13, 2021

Great Course to introduce Excel Skills. Easy to follow videos and the practice exercises were very helpful. I had previous excel experience, but found this course taught me so many things I didn't know about functions and shortcuts that will be helpful in my career.