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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 KEWAL K

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May 30, 2020

Awesome course for beginners. The way they help to learn is marvelous. The best part is after every video there is quiz for self-assessment and last practice makes permanent, thanks to Coursera.

By Shivam S

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May 25, 2020

The instructors were amazing. They made everything seem so easy. Now that I have completed the course, I'm confident that I'll be able to tackle everyday excel tasks with ease. Thankyou so much.

By MS. B V A

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May 3, 2020

It has been an exemplary learning session. There are lot of intricate, detailed scenarios which we skip during the course of normal learning but now am adept in employing these skills in future.

By Deise D d C V B

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Nov 28, 2019

Conteúdo Super útil e actual! Muito bom e prático para qualquer profissional que queira aprender a usar o Excel. Obrigado à toda a Equipa que produziu este Curso, pela partilha de conhecimento!

By Walter A

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Nov 14, 2019

It's a great course, even if you have been working with excel for years you don't know have to properly use the basic things! Even it might be boring it will fill those empties that you may have

By Francisca J B

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Oct 16, 2019

Me gusto mucho el curso porque aprendí cosas básicas que en realidad no tenía en mi memoria, uno cree que lo sabe todo pero hay muchos tips básicos que me resultaron útiles y me ayudarán a ahorr

By Ha P N

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Jul 30, 2024

been using excel for nearly a decade. this is a keeper for beginners and even intermediates. this is the core stuff u have to learn before going on with tricky stuff. a great course, tks a lot.

By Jeanette G

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Sep 6, 2023

The content was easy to follow and effectively organized to maximize learning and time. I used Excel on a regular basis (self taught) and picked up several useful practices through the course.

By Abu K M F

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Jun 22, 2023

I am pleased to announce that this informative course has imparted a vast amount of knowledge to me. I would like to extend my highest recommendation to others who may be considering taking it.

By Yashwanti N

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Mar 28, 2023

I just completed my Excel Skills for Business: Essentials . which help me to know the basic formulas , graph and different options which makes your work easily in worksheet. Thanks to Coursera.

By Ian. K

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Jul 9, 2022

I fill my gap and I see the updates of the lastest versions of Excel. It was a great course and I recommend joining this course for beginners and experienced who want to see theirs weaknesses.

By José L O Y

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Aug 22, 2021

A great course, although I already knew most of the tools the course was a great way to prove it and show me amazing new things, definitely I would advice on complete it and challenge yourself.

By Soumya M

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Aug 15, 2021

Detailed and thorough explaination of every minute, relevant beginner topic in excel. Thank you very much for an indepth value add to our learning! Kudos to the brilliant work done by the team.

By PRIYANKA K

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Jul 27, 2021

This was one of the best Course which I had taken and learnt. The videos were short and content was deep. This is all I need. I learnt the Essentials of Excel and all thanks to course incharge.

By Harmonie D

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Jul 9, 2021

Thank you very much for an essential and interesting course. I have become a little more confident with my Excel skills after finishing lessons of these 6 weeks. Highly recommend for beginners!

By Mark V H M

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Mar 17, 2021

I personally thank the university and the organizers of these online modular classes online. I learn a lot and it helps me build my confidence to explore more about Excel. It is simply amazing!

By Kapil M

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Mar 5, 2021

it is a great platform to learn Microsoft Excel is the easiest way, test and assessments help to revise what we have been learned. and yes helped a lot to build my confidence in excel handling.

By Manasa T

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Feb 2, 2021

This course has helped me immensely in learning the basics of Excel software. I would recommend this to beginners. The style of teaching, the practice exercises, quizzes, etc., were beneficial.

By ali h a s

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Jan 8, 2021

This is a great course for beginner learning in Excel . The topic and exercise were appropriate and interesting , definitely recommend it! Everything is clearly explained , materials are great.

By Mehedi H

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Aug 4, 2020

A great course for beginners in MS Excel. This course is simply awesome. If you really want to learn something worthwhile, then this course is for you. Practice make permanent is the true line.

By Guoda T

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Aug 1, 2020

One of the best courses I have taken on Coursera! Very clear instructions and plenty of practice. Even the smallest tricks taught in this course will elevate the quality of your Excel projects!

By A. L

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Jun 15, 2020

Good course. I started with a good knowledge base and this course helped fill in a lot of gaps I was missing. Would recommend for people wanting to increase their efficiency in using excel!

By sakib m

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May 28, 2020

Really it was an excellent course. I have learnt a lot of things from this course and the course instructor and overall activity is okay and refreshment and also encourage to learnt new things.

By Michel B

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May 14, 2020

great course to organize what you know about excel, very clear methodes, a lovely journey to take, definitely will recommend to others, specialy if you need it for basic work/study requierments

By Kathleen M

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Apr 17, 2020

This was a great refresher! I think the portion about printing could be excluded since people rarely print out documents anymore, but it was still worthwhile to review for formatting purposes.