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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 Cheng W Y

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Jun 17, 2020

Good refresher for those familiar with Excel and definitely a good step-by-step learning course for those unfamiliar with Excel especially for Business usage purpose. Thank you!

By MU�OZ Q J A

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Jun 8, 2020

very useful course with nice and enjoyable videos to learn and or course, nice challenges that brings the best out of you. thanks a lot and remember: practice makes permanent :3

By MEENAL J

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May 19, 2020

Its really an excellent Course. The two experts Prashan Karunaratne (course Instructor) n Nikki have explained d course so efficiently . I'm very thankful n grateful to them.

By HAJARABANU. M S

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May 13, 2020

A very great opportunity to learn the essentials of EXCEL and was able to complete them within a short span of time learned a lot from this course. Thanks, Macquarie University.

By Harsh K

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May 10, 2020

Amazing course, never enjoyed giving a final assessment exam so much ever before! So interactive and fun to do. The videos were great and I had great fun completing this course!

By Luciane V

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May 3, 2020

Very useful! Despite being a regular Excel user, I decided to start the course from the Essentials and to my surprise I could learn new stuff since the first class. Really nice!

By KLP S

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Apr 22, 2020

Excellent, Course Structure, Planning, Execution, Explanation. No words to express, Keep it up. And

Thank you very much for building the new skills through this online platform.

By Tanay M

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Apr 9, 2019

Everything is taught systematically and the course structure and the assignments make it fun to complete. A very useful course for a person like me who just started using Excel.

By Christopher T

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Aug 25, 2018

I thought the pacing of the course was very well done and the structure (ie with the course alternating between videos and short quizzes) felt interactive. I enjoyed the course!

By Maria F

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Jan 15, 2018

Easy to understand and user friendly platform. Effective learning tool. The only issue is that this platform is made for PC and some of the Mac functions are not the same as PC.

By Anesia B

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Apr 10, 2023

It was great. I enjoyed the time learning Excel essentials. Thank You, Coursera for this opportunity you have given me. More way to go to finally say I am good enough in Excel.

By Gerardo P H

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Jun 13, 2021

Challenging, not very difficult but you have to get your hands dirty to do the work and complete the assignments, lot of practice and good tips! I really recommend this course.

By Deependra K

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Jun 3, 2021

Excellence course offered by Coursera, It has cleared lots of my doubts on excel which I had now I can easily use excel in excellent way.

Thanks a Lot to offering this course :)

By A. S R

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May 22, 2021

Coursera was so, use full to me in gaining of excel skills .It is a good opportunity that provided by our college and recommending Coursera for developing our skills .

By Julian R

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Apr 22, 2021

In Addition to my knowledge before it helped me to get an overview over all posibilities excel is providing and helped me to gain fun and now contineue to become advanced soon.

By Marita V

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Feb 21, 2021

I enjoyed this program, I know and work with excel everyday, the course has shown me how many gaps there are in my knowledge. Looking forward to the other courses in the series

By AKSHAT S

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Nov 9, 2020

Nicky has covered wonderfully every inch of the basic details right from the scratch. For beginners with no practical knowledge on Excel this is the right place to get started.

By ASHA J

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Aug 18, 2020

Thanks, course era for offering me this course. I am so glad that could get this opportunity to learn about excel. You kept help with the quizzes and assignments. Thanks a lot.

By Rojal M

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Aug 5, 2020

Basic yet significant skills are taught during 6 weeks. Excellent coursework, good tutorials. Overall, i would recommend this course to all who want to improve, learn and grow.

By Gaurav K

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Jun 7, 2020

Excellent course, helps you understand the basics of excel in detail. very elaborated course structure, interactive lectures, very skillful instructor. Overall great experience

By sathish

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Jun 3, 2020

Very good course for basic if excel , Course content materials are very good .I had been using excel long time however i had learned 40 % to 50% new skills about basic of excel

By Abdulrauf I O

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May 22, 2020

Very Tasking interactive excel experience with detailed explanation on how-to

Very recommended course for anyone aspires to know the use of spreadsheet for daily life businesses

By Oliver N

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Apr 9, 2020

this has been an exceptional educational journey, I can proudly saw am very confident now about my excel skills and know that my performance at work is going to greatly improve

By Christine M

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Feb 3, 2020

This course helped me so much! It felt like I was in the classroom when I put on my headphones and got to work. I learned so many tools to make me more successful in my career.

By David G

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May 11, 2019

Outstanding course. The best one I've taken. It's a "must take" for anyone wanting to fill the holes in their Excel knowledge or planning on taking the more advanced courses.