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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

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.

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!

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By Kris A R

Jul 24, 2020

I love the 2 instructors. Their lessons are enjoyable and very entertaining. I like how they speak, very clear and understandable. I will take their other lessons on excel as well. I really learned a lot from them. Keep it up.

By Gajendra S R

Apr 14, 2020

This is a great course with a lot of practical exposure towards the routine issues faced by professionals like us. Practice Challenges offered are absolutely fantastic and gives me a great learning experience. Keep it Up guys.

By Patricia S W

Sep 2, 2019

Great. The course was structured to allow me to proceed at my own pace with plenty of practice exercises and many opportunities to test my learning. I will attempt the remaining courses in the Excel Skills for Business series.

By Xi C

Dec 25, 2018

This course is not only helpful for people with no excel skill to get into this field. It's also helpful for someone who has used excel for a long period of time and want to catch up have small quick skills for daily work use.

By C D

Apr 23, 2018

Excellent course! The most well put together, professional course I've done to date. Includes a lot of practice material with quizzes and tests that are just the perfect level of difficulty. Looking forward to the next one.

By Anwer A

Apr 5, 2018

I decided to re-learn Excel, and I was shocked at how much I didn't know. You might think you're an expert, but these little things bring you down to earth. I enjoyed every bit of the course and loved the emphasis on practice.

By Charlie A

Jun 7, 2023

Videos are rather short but very effective, and the activities do a good job of reinforcing what was taught in the lessons. The comprehensive assignement at the end of the course was absolutely fantastic and a real challenge.

By Aldemar B G

Apr 4, 2022

El curso es bastante bueno porque es el inicio al uso y manejo de las bases de datos , tambien ayuda ampliar el espectro de conocimiento a cerca de como se desarrolla los medicamentos y la investigacion clinica,.

excellent.

By Kumar S

Dec 14, 2020

It was a good course to gain basic understanding of excel. Excel is something which we all know bits and pieces of because for most of us, its a self learnt tool at some level. This courses helps in bridging some of the gaps.

By Gertrud T M

Sep 4, 2020

I am an Advanced user of excel but as I have taught myself the use of excel on the job I was sure that I missed some smart applications and so it was. Thank you for the easy to follow classes and the well qualified teachers.

By Karina W W

Aug 18, 2020

This was a very well thought out basic Excel lesson plan. Very thorough but still short and sweet videos. It's very straightforward and it helps that it explains why the choices you have made are wrong. Would 10/10 recommend!

By sumanth d

Apr 29, 2020

This is a good course for beginners in excel and covers basic concepts in a well-defined manner. Although, I have used excel in my workplace extensively there are certain topics that I am not aware of and can be very helpful.

By Mathieu G

May 8, 2019

The entire series of excel courses is spectacular! I thought I knew how to use excel well, but this course showed me many things that I had no clue about! Excel is powerful and this course helps you grab a hold of that power.

By Lisanet G U

Dec 26, 2018

I found this course very helpful for begginers and people that have been using excel but have some knowledge gaps. The videos are very easy to follow and they break everything down so that the student doesn't get overwhelmed.

By John P M V

Nov 12, 2021

I really learned a lot about excel within this course, quite didactic and full of knowledge with advice and complementary readings, thank you very much for having done a very well structured Excel skills for business course.

By rizzamae b

Sep 13, 2021

This course is a great help especially to me who's self-taught and it saved me. Now, I will no longer waste my time and effort in using excel because it's already easier and excellent to use. Practice makes permanent indeed.

By Christina S

Jan 29, 2021

I am hooked! I love how easy this course was to follow! I was just "brushing up on skills" and instead I feel confident that I will be efficient at my job while utilizing Excel. I start Monday, so I finished just in time!

By Михаил Н

Jul 10, 2020

Thank you for this course! Although I am getting this Specialization for relatively more sophisticated Excel skills, it is always necessary to have a solid base. Now I feel more confident in my knowledge of Excel Essentials.

By ASIF A H

Jun 20, 2020

Thank you so much to Dr Prashan S. M. Karunaratne, Nicky Bull,FHEA,A/Professor Yvonne Breyer. Specially I want to give my heartiest thanks to Dr Prashan & Nicky Bull for making me confident from completely ignorant in excel.

By Md.Hasibur R H

Jun 20, 2020

The Assessment procedure of this course ids top notch. Assessments cover every topic covered in classes and really sharpens the concepts.Highly Recommended to anyone willing to get their hands on MS EXCEL for the first time.

By Luis A

Jun 16, 2020

Very solid Excel Course to strengthen fundamentals or learn this software for the first time. Examples make it really easy to apply the techniques and tools learned into your workplace right away. Highly commend this course!

By Aimie K

Jul 26, 2019

I now have a solid foundation for my spreadsheet skills and can comfortable navigate through and work with Excel. The course comes highly recommended for novices and experts looking to refresh their basic spreadsheet skills.

By Marie A M J

May 6, 2019

I though I already know the basics of Excel but this course proved that I still have a lot of things to learn! The course is easy to understand and it will teach you a lot of useful tools. The tests are very challenging too!

By 曾心慧Shinta

Oct 15, 2021

Learned a lot of handy tricks, and it is good to go through the basics before going on to the intermediate and advanced skill. Looking forward to the next level. Gotta go learning know. Thanks Coursera and all the teachers.

By Stefan R

May 26, 2021

Really good to follow along with, good practice, decent quizzes to test it out, they're good in that they push you to explore around excel yourself to answer some of the questions. And the two main people are very friendly.