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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

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 Veronica C C F

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Aug 1, 2020

Eu amei muito fazer este curso. Professores super qualificados e ensinam de forma clara e ágil. Obrigada à Equipe do Coursera, e à minha instituição Universidade Federal do ABC por disponibilizar tal curso.

By Sunshine M

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Jun 7, 2020

Almost all the essential topics were covered here in this course i really liked the way there were practice exercises given it helped me learn it thoroughly i could crack the assessment with 90% in one try.

By Sonia K

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May 29, 2020

All components in the course are crystal-clear. Exactly the essentials need I need to master. Thumbs up for both instructors! So glad I enrolled in the course. Surely will continue learning the next course.

By Ronald M

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May 14, 2020

10/10 course!!! I enjoyed it so much. A lot of really great content. I'm going to go back and re-listen/practice a lot of the lectures...tones of gems! Very appreciated. Can't wait to start the next course!

By Hasibul H S

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May 10, 2020

Helped a lot, a pretty well designed course ,I'd say. I knew nothing about Excel before but now I can claim that I know something. I recommend it to the people who is a beginner in Excel and want to learn.

By ANUGAMINI P

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Apr 29, 2020

The course was well designed. Each and every essential aspect of Excel was well dealt with. The sessions were interactive, effective and have a long lasting learning experience. Thanks the team and coursera

By Preeti C

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Mar 31, 2020

This course is amazing. I have learned so many powerful techniques in excel by which I can speed up my work with excel. I would suggest everyone take this course for batter understanding the power of excel.

By Abdulrahman S D

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Dec 23, 2018

Really Really I don't have any words to descrive this experiment!

The educational method is wonderful, and the information was very helpful and varied.

It was awsome.

Thank you, Thank you all.

Best Regards.

By Cindy

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Jan 4, 2018

Excellent overview! I am self-taught and have worked in Excel for several years, but this course taught me some new skills and provided a really good foundation of terminology and tools. Highly recommend.

By Balasubramanian P

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Jan 10, 2022

This course explains all the fundamental of excel in a very simple way which is then reinforced through the worksheet attached with the following videos making learning interesting as well as informative.

By Jan M

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May 5, 2021

I learned quite a few new skills and was able to practice, which makes the difference. I especially liked using a workbook to answer the questions. That way I could try different things to get the answer.

By Nikhil S

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May 5, 2021

Very thorough and informative. I now have a complete understanding of the basics of Excel thanks to this course. Would highly recommend it for anyone new to the software or looking for a complete revision.

By John S P S

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Jan 31, 2021

Excellent course to get started on Excel, the teachers' explanations are very detailed and every single topic you learned in this course will be helpful as a basis for you to simplify your work with Excel.

By Riche G

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Jan 20, 2021

Great course overall. The content is compact yet very well presented. The challenges and homework are relevant. The speakers are very articulate and were able to explain clearly the concepts and processes.

By Karina R

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Dec 14, 2020

Great course! The teachers explain very easy and clear. Thanks a lot to them for their great work and professionalism! If English is not your native language even, it is not difficult to understand at all.

By Fiona T H S

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Nov 18, 2020

I really like the outline and practice tools. Is very kind to beginner and yet is very informative and a lot of practical experience. So glad I took this course! Thanks to all the coach for preparing this!

By Rizwan R

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Nov 2, 2020

this was definitely a awesome course. It was my second course in online. I enjoyed it a lot. Its beginning course , so anybody can take this course. I hope, it will help you a lot for being a excel expert.

By Rahbar A H

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Oct 17, 2020

A great and really helpful course for anybody to gain basic excel knowledge from Scratch. My heartfelt gratitude to the course instructors for their tremendous efforts to make this course amazing yes easy!

By Venkatanath A

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Sep 28, 2020

It was great, precise and easy to understand.

All those intermediate quizzes between each practice videos are the ones that really helped me observe and execute what I have learned from the previous videos.

By Ajay S

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Aug 1, 2020

A really good course for the ones who want to learn basics of excel or want to polish their excel skills. Great structure, specially the introductory videos for each week, to create an excitement & a buzz.

By Md. M R

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Jul 7, 2020

I have learnt more than what i have learnt in my 4 years university courses combined. A huge amount of thanks to the faculties who designed this course. looking forward to do the intermediate courses also.

By Sarthak K

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Jun 10, 2020

Indeed as the title of the course says , it covers all the essential features of excel and good practice to help get a grip on it. Recommending it to anyone who is missing out on some of the simple basics.

By Ujjwal P

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May 31, 2020

I have learned a lot from this course. It will help in a lot in my office day to day work.

I am very excited to learn above levels of this course.

The type and method of delivery of the content is wonderful.

By Pranshu M

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Jan 27, 2020

The Course is very well curated and organized. The practice quizzes and assessments really test one's knowledge acquired throughout the course. Really glad to have found such great instructors on Coursera.

By Khalil A M

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Mar 25, 2018

Its really very informative and highly equipped course. Best course I ever take in my entire life. May God bless, protect, and healthy Dr. Nicky and Parshan as well as Coursera and Macquirie university .