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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

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.

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By Athira V

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Dec 1, 2020

Such an amazing platform to gain wide knowledge.

The exams are specifically designed to test everything which has been covered in the course.

By Erick I F A

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Nov 18, 2020

Excelente curso básico. Llevó años manejando Excel, pero no sabía algunas cosas básicas, excelente organización y presentación de las clases.

By Hope E

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Oct 26, 2020

This is a great course with great skills, taught by a wonderful set of instructors, and having huge benefits for managing and analyzing data.

By A H

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Oct 20, 2020

Well explained and very informative. Many thanks to the instructors, would definitely recommend this to anyone wanting to learn excel skills.

By Juan J S G

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Oct 19, 2020

Without a doubt one of the best courses that I have done through Coursera. It has a lot of practical exercises and the exams are quite tough.

By PRINCE A

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Oct 14, 2020

THIS COURSE HAS REALLY FILLED IN THE GAPS FOR ME, LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTINUING WITH THE REST OF THE COURSES TO BECOME AN EXPECT IN MS EXCEL.

By George D

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Oct 10, 2020

Great course! I thought I was already an advanced person in excel. Still, I had many gaps that this course has closed! I highly recommend it!

By Vaishnavi R

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Sep 19, 2020

This course is indeed very helpful to get acquaint with basics of excel. The course content along with the practice workbook is just perfect.

By Shams S

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Aug 24, 2020

Very interesting course. Taught me lots of things, I am very grateful to teachers and instructors for such amazing explanation of everything!

By VARUNKUMAR J M

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Aug 3, 2020

loved to learn it, discussion type videos are far better than normal lecturing videos.

Thank you ,Macquarie University for the great stuff!!!!

By Hyana B

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Jul 21, 2020

This is the most complete Excel course I've ever seen. And very well elaborated. Congrats to all the team! And thank you, I've learned a lot"

By Absar U H

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Jun 15, 2020

Coursera has designed its courses very diligently. It helps students truly improve their skills and increase their employ ability portfolio .

By Seth K

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Apr 25, 2020

It was pleasure working with Macquarie University. I loved the simplified teaching that was instructed step by step. I would take it again!

By Gurasees S

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Mar 30, 2020

This course is concise, on point and one can easily finsih this course in a day. I'll recommend this to all who want to start learning excel.

By Nicole M

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Feb 21, 2020

Very helpful and useful. I took another course that was moving much too slowly, this one was paced very well and they set you up for success.

By Manas R M

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Feb 26, 2019

The course's beauty is it starts from real basics and the pace takes you one ladder up, that is really helpful to perform day to day activity

By Federica F

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Jan 8, 2018

Thank you so much! I truly needed that since the last time I used Excel was a few years ago, but now I'm nack on stage :) Thanks again a lot!

By Leonardo V

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Jul 13, 2024

They go deep into explaining everything. They will teach you all the details in a very understandable way. Thank you for this amazing course

By Ulises M S

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Jan 21, 2024

This course is amazing, it helps you in the workplace and in your home life. It is a excellent approach to the powerfull tool that Excel is.

By Adeyemi A

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Nov 2, 2023

The tutors are topnotch and classes are made simple for student just like taking a nursery school student ,thanks so much Nicky and prashan.

By Kamal M

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Dec 28, 2022

very helpful and very beginner friendly, The course will be started from scratch to an intermediate level. excited to learn the next course

By Mimi K

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Oct 29, 2022

This course contained clearly explained videos, and well structured and designed excercies. Practice makes permanent. Thank you very much.

By PRK21MS1054 R R

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Apr 14, 2022

Amazing course to start learning Excel. Starts with basics and takes on the complexity as we go further. Sean is at his best now. Same as me

By Dejan K

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Apr 6, 2022

The course was absolutely amazing and teaching is performed in great fashion. Looking forward to start the new level and gain certification.

By Rhonda W

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Jan 20, 2022

I've used excel heavily in my career and I still learned a lot of great information from this course. It has already improved my efficiency.