Chevron Left
Back to Excel Skills for Business: Essentials

Learner Reviews & Feedback for Excel Skills for Business: Essentials by Macquarie University

4.9
stars
49,130 ratings

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

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.

DT

Feb 8, 2021

Really well done! You kept me interested and motivated, and that's not easy to do!

I enjoyed the balance of instructional videos and hands-on exercises, and I'm excited to try the Intermediate now.

Filter by:

2601 - 2625 of 10,000 Reviews for Excel Skills for Business: Essentials

By Sabari A

•

Jul 1, 2020

The very basics of excel have been explained so well and along with the practice exercise and evaluation helps to understand and remember them.

By Md. E K

•

Jun 29, 2020

This is the course I was looking for. very very good. i had no clue about MS Excel. now I got confidence that I can deal with it. Great Course.

By Muhammad S S

•

Jun 23, 2020

This course was really helpful for a Excel-beginner like me. Now I'm much lenient with sheets & workbook. Thanks to the instructors & Coursera!

By Mika K

•

May 21, 2020

The course filled so many gaps I had in Excel. The teaching and study materials are the best. The course brought my Excel knowledge up to date.

By Nick W

•

Aug 19, 2019

Clear and easy to follow. Sample workbooks great for demonstrating functionality and allowing the student to quickly experiment for themselves.

By Ajay M

•

Jul 14, 2019

Excellent Teaching. Motivates you every time to practice more and more, which is the best way to retain, what you have learned. Great teachers.

By Vijay K

•

Nov 29, 2018

Very well organized course. Learnt a lot. Thank you Professors for an excellent course. It has improved my confidence and productivity at work.

By Aditya R

•

Jun 13, 2018

Absolutely loved the course, learnt quite a bit about excel and am looking forward to joining the intermediate course on excel as well. Cheers!

By Swastik g

•

Jul 1, 2023

Very easy to learn course for beginners, and the regular assessments help a lot to gain practical knowledge about the functions and the steps.

By Mohamed S

•

Jul 2, 2022

Although I have already been using excel for quite a while, this course has added so much value and elevated my excel skills to the next level

By Necati F Ç

•

Aug 20, 2021

Before I took this course, I have so limited knowledge about Excel. However, this course provide great opportunity to take a step into Excel.

By shahadat H

•

Apr 2, 2021

One of the best course I have ever taken in Coursera. Thank you so much for making such kind of excellent course with unique teaching concept.

By Jan-Olof J

•

Mar 14, 2021

I really enjoyed this course. Very high quality in all aspects. Videos are excellent! The course is really well structured and easy to follow.

By Ahmed S M

•

Jan 3, 2021

I was amazed that Excel could learn so beautifully. I was able to finish the course with great ease and fun. Many thanks to everyone involved.

By Pradeep S

•

Nov 17, 2020

The course was designed perfectly to learn the basics of excel. Assignments that were designed to complete the course were neat and well made.

By Rohcell Q S

•

Nov 12, 2020

Beginners in Excel can easily cope up with this course. Instructions & explanations are very well presented! Thank you Macquarie University :)

By Jeny D B

•

Oct 29, 2020

I have been using Excel for more than 5 years in my current job, and I still learned and had additional knowledge through this course. Thanks!

By Anas M A

•

Sep 20, 2020

I loved the content. And the teaching method is very engaging. It's arguably the best course on excel on the internet i have ever come across!

By nitin A

•

Sep 18, 2020

Very good course for learning all the basics of Excel. Practice while you learn. Covers most of what you need for basic to early advanced work

By Entesar K

•

Aug 28, 2020

I thought I know the basic Exel functions but I learned so much more. I am very glad I started this course. I will continue onto the next one!

By VIKRAM K

•

Jul 27, 2020

the way of teaching was very good and all the related things to coursera were briefly taught. coursera platform for online study is excellent.

By Sebastian L R

•

Jul 19, 2020

It was a great course, I learned a lot about using Excel an its basics, i learned a few thing i dint know and i reinforced some i already knew

By POLA N M

•

Jul 16, 2020

It was an interesting course..they have covered all the basic tools that everyone need to know while working on excel.They have guided us well

By Brian M

•

Jul 10, 2020

Well structured course that is easy to follow. The extra work provided helped to continue with additional practice. "Practice makes Permanent"

By Wasique H

•

Jul 3, 2020

It is enough to say that the Coursera is a great platform for learning and enhancing the skills. It's awesome indeed. Have a go with Coursera.