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University of Colorado Boulder

Everyday Excel Specialization

Learn Excel From Scratch to Expert. Starting from zero knowledge of Excel, you'll learn basic spreadsheet skills and apply them in to several exciting projects in the capstone "Projects" course.

Charlie Nuttelman

Instructor: Charlie Nuttelman

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4.7

(1,786 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • In this specialization, you'll learn a variety of Excel tools, techniques, and functions, which you'll apply to real-world, "open-ended" projects.

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Specialization - 3 course series

Everyday Excel, Part 1

Course 123 hours4.7 (3,437 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Navigating Excel, editing the worksheet (including inserting/deleting cells, columns, and rows), and cell formatting.

  • Expression entry and common Excel formulas (including logical functions, text functions, and financial functions).

  • Data management (sorting, filtering, consolidating, removing duplicates, data validation, and one-way lookups).

  • Data visualization (scatter plots, column charts, pie charts, Slicers, Sparklines, and Pivot Tables).

Skills you'll gain

Category: Spreadsheet
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Data Management
Category: Real World

Everyday Excel, Part 2

Course 222 hours4.8 (544 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Advanced data management techniques

  • How to implement financial calculations in Excel

  • How to use advanced tools in Excel (Data Tables, Goal Seek, and Solver) to perform and solve "what-if" analyses

  • How to create mathematical predictive regression models using the Regression tool in Excel

Skills you'll gain

Category: Spreadsheet
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Data Management
Category: Real World

Everyday Excel, Part 3 (Projects)

Course 314 hours4.8 (268 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • In this course, you'll apply Excel functions and tools to solving broad, somewhat open-ended problems through a wide variety of "guided" projects.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Spreadsheet
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Real-world projects
Category: computing
Category: Data Management

Instructor

Charlie Nuttelman
University of Colorado Boulder
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