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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 Nathaly V O A

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Jun 30, 2019

Great course! It is pretty good for essentials and it provides a variety of tests and practice challenges. Looking forward to complete the whole specialization!

By Olaoluwa D A

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Jan 26, 2019

Great for learning the basics. Although, I know Excel pretty well, this helped with elements that I was missing, or did not know as such, given its limited use.

By Marcel L

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Sep 17, 2018

learning a lot of useful information at a great rate of pace. I recommend anyone to take this course if you just starting off with basic knowledge of Microsoft.

By Kasia

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May 14, 2018

Very cleverly organized course, it's very basic, but still I've learnt a lot. It's good start to learn more advanced Excel. Will highly recommend to my friends.

By Ranjit G

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Jul 18, 2022

Excellent refresher course for people like me who haven't used Excel in a while.

Very well structures. Prashan and Nicky are very clear with their explanations.

By Rakshita J

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Jun 10, 2021

Very nicely explained. completed the entire course with interest as they explained everything briefly and covered all essentials. amazing course for beginners.

By Francisco M

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May 4, 2021

Tendo em conta a minha experiência na realização do curso, fiquei bastante satisfeito com o conteúdo lecionado e com o método com que o conteúdo foi lecionado.

By Iddi G

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Dec 13, 2020

Taken through the course content in a pace that I could keep up with. Also loved the fact that it got progressively harder. Looking forward to the next course!

By Bethany S

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Oct 29, 2020

A fantastic course for both beginners and self-taught experts. I highly recommend just to get your head wrapped around the basics and to learn the terminology.

By Vasileios T

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Oct 1, 2020

I use excel for years and I though that this course was waste of time. I was wrong. The course has some very good tools to make your work in excel much easier.

By Md. K H H

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Sep 9, 2020

This is my second course here. I must say that, this course felt more effective than the previous one, in the sense that it was able to extract things from me.

By Mohamed Z

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Aug 23, 2020

The course module has been organized very well and easy to learn. Thanks, Macquarie University. Instructors are very keen on the subject and the overall great.

By MAH N

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Aug 19, 2020

I learned so much and i was having fun. I hated excel but all the quizzes, workbooks everything is designed so amazingly that i understood each and everything.

By Patricia O

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Aug 14, 2020

It was a great experience and it was quite fulfilling to start and finish a course that is sure to add an impart in not just my skill set but as an individual.

By Balaji R

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Aug 12, 2020

The Course was rightly guided by the resource persons Dr Prashan S. M. Karunaratne and Nicky Bull.

A right tool for day to day activities to professional skill.

By Sandeep V

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Aug 5, 2020

its an excellent step by step learning for excel beginners, thank you for putting all important excel commands in structured and well understandable manner. !!

By Shikha C

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Jul 21, 2020

Course is very well structured. Content of the course is very good and easy to understand by a beginner. Instructors of the course have done a commendable job.

By MANTE, R L

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Jul 20, 2020

I love this course because I learned a lot from it. It's amazing how excel have so much to do and I can't wait to apply and use what I learned from this course

By Yash G

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Jul 20, 2020

This course was planned beautifully because the assessment was fun to do and challenging. I liked this content very much that I completed this course in 1 week

By Apoorva P

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Jul 8, 2020

Succinct videos and a very good course to bruh up your knowledge of excel. Ninja tips are useful and I got to learn something new! Highly recommend the course.

By Dr. A S

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Jun 21, 2020

It was an awesome experience to learn concepts. I have never been taught this way. And the best part, the trainers have adopted all methods to solve a problem.

By Ahmad M

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Jun 14, 2020

It was very well-taught and course material was well-divided. I had the opportunity to learn about many useful excel features I was previously not aware about.

By Abhijeet B

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Jun 4, 2020

Coursera is the only authentic platform as per my knowledge where I can get right content with excellent faculties to learn and explore with hands on activity.

By Shubham D

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Jun 2, 2020

Nicely crafted course, curated for early stage excel users, with excellent guideway through assessment tests and videos. Very informative and structured course

By Laura T

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May 9, 2020

I already use Excel for work so I wondered whether the first course would be too basic for me, but I learned a ton of tips and tricks that I can now use daily!