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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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AN

Dec 19, 2023

An excellent course with basic and fundamental knowledge about Excel! The course has been designed greatly for beginners and anyone who wants to review basic Excel skills. A highly recommended course!

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.

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By Riya K

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May 24, 2020

The best to start from basics. Many of us might be using excel but were not aware of some basic function which excel provide, by this course I can now use excel efficiently. Hoping to learn more in this specialization.

By Iftekher A K

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Apr 25, 2020

Extremely well designed course to guide someone for learning the basics of excel systematically other than trail and error method.Gives a good idea of all the covered functions so that one understands what he is doing.

By Roxann S

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Apr 22, 2020

I thought I knew the very basics of excel and soon learned that I didn't know much. Course 1 really upped my skills on the very basics. I can't wait to complete the next 3 courses and see what else my brain can retain!

By Corinna F

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Apr 9, 2020

Great Essentials course, I have been using Excel for 12 years but never explored the functions, charts and other features until now. Definitely gave me much more confidence with Excel, I can't wait for the next course!

By Mary B

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Nov 22, 2021

Despite the fact that I consider myself to be an intermediate level Excel user, I learned lots of helpful tips and tricks from this course. Well worth the time to build a stronger foundation than I had when I started.

By Deraedt A

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Jul 6, 2020

I'm an Office lover and the questions of the quizzes are to the point and in a creative form. I believe you really learned the essentials in the course. I love the way they start the course with the discussion format.

By Elisabeth P V

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Apr 8, 2020

Curso muy muy recomendable tanto si tienes cierto nivel de Excel como si empiezas desde cero y tienes buena comprensión en inglés (el curso no está traducido a castellano) Metodología muy efectiva y fácil de seguir pa

By Luís C

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Mar 8, 2018

Great course, provides solid base for any new Excel user, and can very well serve as a review of the basics for any user already familiar with excel, as a prologue for further training on more complex functionalities.

By Gihan I

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Jan 30, 2018

The essentials of Excel has thought me how to extract more information, sort out relevant information and to highlight data from charts that I use everyday at work.

It lays down a solid foundation for further learning.

By Safeer S

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Sep 17, 2022

to be very honest i found this course so informative, so productive. i really learned a lot of first course of this specilization. it really enhanced my excel-knowledge, and it was comprehensively explained as well.

By João M B M

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Mar 3, 2021

Very well laid out and explained content. As the title says, it is really the essentials for excel but if you really want to start from the basics and work your skils up from the base, this is perfect to get started.

By Elio J L Z

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Nov 8, 2020

Un curso donde se aprende no solo la plataforma de excel, sino, también enseñan a usar atajos y comandos eficientemente, los ejercicios prácticos te dan mas destrezas y es mucho lo que se aprende con cada evaluación.

By Jalin S

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Nov 6, 2020

I enjoyed this course.. It was straight forward and easy to follow. The videos were the right length, it was long enough to explain the excel function but short enough so as not to be boring, Definitely recommend it

By maria m

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Sep 18, 2020

the most helpful EXCEL class i found so far!!! Thank you so much, i was so intimated by excel for years. this is a perfect combination of test/assignments etc. teachers made very easy to understand complex material.

By Randhir K S

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Sep 15, 2020

The course design is very good and important for beginners. All the practice videos and assignments are also fabulous. Thanks for all the course instructor for your creativity and hard work for preparing this course.

By MED A K

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Sep 2, 2020

i think taking this course is the best way to learn excel fundamentals. amazing teachers and videography. the quzzes and assessments are incredible too. they cover from cell A1 to XFD1048576 in excel, so don't worry.

By Abrar A

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Jul 22, 2020

One things i have to say i never felt bore to doing the entire course. I should say it's a pleasent gift for me from coursera.Immense gratitude to my instructor & the entire forum of 'Macquarie University. Thank you.

By Cynthia B

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Jul 13, 2020

I learned so much and filled in the blanks from what I did not know from being self-taught in Excel. I feel so much more confident with Basic Excel and I can accomplish my everyday tasks faster and more efficiently.

By Beatriz L A

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Jul 4, 2020

This course is amazing at giving you a basic notion of excel. Personally, at the start I had very poor knowledge and now I am pretty confident in my skill set. I do look forward to taking the next courses they offer!

By Alfred S

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Jun 29, 2020

This is the best course I have done so far online. Wow. The people, the video quality, the content quality, everything is thought through. Some real professionals delivered a superb learning experience here. Chapeau!

By Abdul H

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Jun 21, 2020

if you don't know a word of Excel and want to learn then you are on the right direction. just take this course and you are good to use excel for your daily office work. Tutors have made everything easy to understand.

By EnGR M

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Apr 22, 2020

There are always some ribbons, keys and tasks at the program you are working at that you don't know anything about. This course gave me the tool to explore through all those unknowns to be a better operator in Excel.

By Vishesh A

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Apr 7, 2020

Wonderful course! Even if you know certain bit of Excel beforehand, you'll learn a lot more through this course. The practice challenges are easier at the start and start getting more challenging as weeks go through.

By Magdalen C

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Jul 30, 2019

Amazing, although I'm already an intermediate user, I learned a lot from this course. Super well structured. Material is appropriate for beginner's level. I would recommend anyone who is interested in learning Excel.

By Patrick A W

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Jan 5, 2019

This is a really good course that covers a wide variety of basics in Excel. I have used Excel quite a bit, but I still found this course useful. Many of my coworkers could benefit from it and they use Excel everyday.