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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 Dhwaj K B

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Jun 21, 2020

I liked the course contents very much. Also, the way of teaching was clearly better than many of the other courses. The course gave me confidence to operate excel in a better way. Also, many concepts got cleared on the way. Cheers to Prashan sir and Nicky Ma'am

By Abhay P

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May 11, 2020

The course is exceptional built and the work books are good. By working alongside of the course it helped me to grasp the aspects very quickly. I would like to thank each and every person who has put efforts to make this course and also thanks to Coursera... 🤩

By Grazielle S P

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Apr 4, 2020

Excelente curso.

Só uma observação,caso você conclua o curso durante o período de avaliação ainda sim você não pode adquirir certificado sem comprar. Não gostei disso.

Excellent course. But certificate is not provided for free even during the trial period ,though

By Clodagh R

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Feb 3, 2020

Even people who work with Excel every day may have gaps in their basic knowledge. This course fills in many of those blanks. The instructors are terrific, and the lesson plan (a small quiz after each lecture) makes for super fast progress. A great intro course!

By Amy H

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Jan 3, 2020

I loved the interaction and being able to follow along! The practice challenges helped reinforce what was learned. It was a great online experience and I learned so much. Also, the facilitators made it simple and easy. I loved their enthusiasm and energy - WOW!

By Tonia T

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Jul 28, 2019

Great course even for a person who thinks your very good at excel!! I am self taught and have been working with excel for over 20 years and I just picked up a lot of useful tricks. And re-familiarized myself with tools I should have been using for a while now!!

By Durgesh P

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Sep 25, 2018

course is beautifully structured / organised for mature excel user to help them learn excel skill is professional manner. Rightly said practice makes permanent. practice sheets and guidance has helped great deal in embedding the knowledge of excel deep within.

By Chel T

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May 24, 2023

And now I'm done! Just finished this class and passed the exam smoothly. I would like to express my gratitude to Ms. Bull and Dr.Prashan for creating this content and making this as understandable as it is.

Next up, Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate 1 :)

By peter i

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Aug 11, 2022

all the lessone wey very helpful an unique in its own way. I am so happy and lucky to have been part of this. I am putting in some of the skill acquire through this course in use. and for the rest i would keep practicing as it is said practice makes permanent.

By Xenofon P

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Feb 16, 2021

Excellent course, with very useful tips for beginners or even advanced users of Excel. I thought myself as an advanced user, but this course really helped me solve issues I faced and also taught me many more interesting skills to apply in my area of expertise.

By JOSE K L

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Sep 23, 2020

It was a good learning experience for me since this was my first-time experience doing a course online. Every point what was explained during the 6 weeks of the course it was easy to understand. I would like the thank the Instructor's who has done a great job.

By Jacinta O

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Sep 15, 2020

This is the best course I have taken on Excel. I went from knowing pretty much nothing to knowing a whole lot! Now I confidently work with Excel. The course was very engaging. Kudos to Dr Prashan and Nicky for the amazing work done!

I recommend this course 100%

By Maria A M R

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Sep 6, 2020

I loved every lesson I had on this course. It's very interactive and definitely not boring. Everyone, say wow! Every activity makes me very familiar with Excel and I'm just beginning! Indeed, practice makes permanent! Thank you very much, Macquarie University!

By Srujan B

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Aug 23, 2020

Hey, I know how this goes. So, I'll speak to the point. I completed the course and got the certificate too and I vouch that this is worth it for those who really want to start learning how to use Excel. So, I'd say, totally go for it. No second thoughts, guys!

By Sri v v

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Aug 11, 2020

The course is perfectly structured with short videos, practice sheets, quizzes, tool box and many other things. I feel confident while using options in excel and learnt many features. Thank you coursera and Macquarie university. Prashan and Nicky thanks a ton.

By Ehrar s

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May 8, 2020

I would like to say that this course " Excel skills for Business: Essentials" is one of the best online course. I would like to thanks all the team and the university for organising this type of course. I would recommend all to complete this course, Thank You.

By Maria C

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Mar 10, 2020

Very basic skills, but well taught and worth it to fill in the little gaps before continuing on to the higher level courses. Thank you for the great course. The videos are excellent. The tests are well done and the opportunities for practice are really fun.

By Karoline S S O

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Sep 20, 2021

Mi nombre es Karoline Sthephanny Silva Olano y soy estudiante de Ingeniería Ambiental de Perú. Este curso es muy didáctico y los videos que contienen no son para nada pesados ni aburridos, la manera de en que explican es muy fácil de entender. Muchas gracias.

By Sarah A

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Dec 5, 2020

Excel had been one of the programs that I had avoided because I was intimidated. This course was easy to follow and provided good exercises for me to practice; they were challenging and made me think critically but not so hard that they would be discouraging.

By Thu N

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Feb 27, 2019

I rated the Excel Skills for Business: Essentials with 5 stars as I learned and enjoyed studying so much from this program. The lecturers and lectures are both excellent, well organised and very easy to understand. I would recommend this to everybody to try!

By Minni R

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Nov 16, 2017

Excellent Course with step-by-step video easy to follow tutorials. Every video comes with practice lesson and every end of lesson there's an assignment. And it comes with a Final Assignment to wrap up all we have learned. Thank you for creating this tutorial.

By abeer a

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Mar 9, 2023

I learned a lot of things every week that was unknown to me in the past. I am very happy with every piece of information I learned. The course added a lot to me and made me very happy to know something that was unknown to me in the past. Thank you very much.

By Md M K

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Jul 27, 2021

I really loved the course!! Both Prashan and Nicky are amazing instructors. I loved the fact that there were so many practice sheets to get our hands on. The tests were really good too. I am much more confident in my basic Excel skills now than I was before.

By william b

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Feb 14, 2021

Perhaps an updated course with new version of excel could be done eventually, but I would say 95% of the course was relevant to the newest excel version. A few features were different in the new version that were not relatable to the version used in course.

By EAA401

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May 12, 2020

I never had training related to Excel but I have been using it since I got into the Corporate world. With this course I realized how much I have been missing especially on the essentials and short cuts. This course has widened my knowledge in excel for sure.