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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

RV

Nov 6, 2022

They (the instructors and other people in the background) are best at what they do. Great course. Great structure. Gave me a solid foundation on the topic. Many thanks for them (you know who). Cheers.

KS

Jun 29, 2020

This is an amazing course for learners. I am having a lot of fun completing this course from the starting point. It is very much enjoyable and the way the course teachers deliver every lecture superb.

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By Iris w

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Feb 26, 2019

Absolutely wonderful course, impeccable teaching/instruction and LOVE THE PACE OF THE SPEAKERS. They really go out of their way to make sure you understand each step one by one, and provide great examples of how do use the tools and functions. highly recommend this specialization!

By diah d

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Sep 7, 2022

It has been joyful one month learning experience with Macquarie University. I enjoy each week learning process .all the materials and post quiz for each practice video is what Ilike the most about this course, it helps me to practice right away what I have learnt from the videos.

By Leonard C R

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Nov 24, 2020

While I already had some knowledge of Excel I am happy for the increased knowledge gain via this course. I have gained a greater awareness of certain features of Excel and this has thus increased my skills. Videos are well instructed and I am excited to move on to the next level.

By Miriam S

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Nov 16, 2020

Even as an intermediate user, I found this essentials course taught me valuable new skills, filling in a couple gaps and teaching me nifty features I had not discovered on my own. The lectures are very competent and seemed clear and straightforward, and laid out in logical order.

By Suyash K

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Jun 3, 2020

Hello,I am Suyash Khadayate from INDIA.Before taking this course i was not familiar with the different tools present in the MS Excel.and how to use them.After taking this course it helped me a lot to know more in deep about the excel .It will be helpul for me in future .Thankyou.

By Syed M A S B

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Sep 20, 2018

Exceptionally great course. Totally practical and great way of teaching. I really improved my skills in excel and now I'm heading for the specialization of Excel Skills for Business. I will be doing all the four courses. Thanks to Coursera, Macquarie University and special thanks

By RUBEN D M V

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Nov 30, 2020

5 stars are not enough! Amazing course, extremelly well explained and detailed, lessons with right lenght and right level to test skills. The interface, the challenges, the tests, everything is on spot. More than excited to take the next 3 courses to complete the specialization!

By Jitin S

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Oct 9, 2020

This is for those who are beginner and would prefer to build strong basics. Nevertheless, it would require patience to grow step by step. Great explanations of concepts by instructors, specially Dr, Prashan's way of putting the problem statement in the beginning of every module.

By Rafi A C

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Jul 5, 2020

Before starting this course I knew a few little things about Microsoft excel. After doing this course with Coursera under Macquarie University I feel more comfortable with excel. Hopefully, the next course will make me more comfortable. In a word, I am having an awesome feeling.

By Ruthwik

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Mar 28, 2020

A good experience, mostly for beginners who want to learn the basics. Some things which were meant to be difficult like filtering and sorting the data were explained with ease and those tests were very helpful for me to analyze and practice those areas where I lacked confidence.

By Felipe A D

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Dec 16, 2019

An excellent course that revises all the most important skills that Excel offers. I noticed that while I was getting along the content, I started to make better and nicer reports with much more tools and better data visualisation.

This course really made the difference in my job.

By A P

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Sep 20, 2022

very well structured and will be definetely challenging for those who have little experience

or for thos who have not ventured out the basics of excel.I have been using excel for many years but still found a lot of value and gained further knowledge about the program.

Cheerio!

By Vishesh A

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Jan 5, 2022

I have been using excel for time for basic office work and I learned a lot from this course. The best thing about the course was how the quiz questions are designed to make you think and answer. Just like educators promised, it makes you think and practice. Loved it thoroughly.

By Marilena P

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Feb 2, 2021

A fantastic course for beginners, every single week is excellently curated, the items are explained very well and in simple terms, the videos are very straightforward, and the quizzes and tips are really great. A top notch course, can't wait to complete the full specialisation.

By Marija R

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Dec 10, 2020

I never thought I'll say this, but you guys made me LOVE excel!!! the challenges, tips, homework, hacks, interesting topics, the way you presented each week is just so interesting! This is very very useful and I will continue doing intermediate and expert levels too .Thank you!

By Nestor O C B

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Apr 22, 2020

Great course!!!

Even if you think that you have the basic knowledge of Excel, there is always something new that you can learn or refresh.

I have been working with excel for about 5 years now and this course helped me to refresh my knowledge and I learned new tips and shortcuts.

By William J C

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May 5, 2019

Already knowing a bit of the basics on Microsoft Excel, I've learned more than what I had already known in regards to formulas/functions and how to adequately create/edit charts. This was a great refresher and helpful with learning the essential through the wide spectrum excel.

By Brian T

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Feb 26, 2019

A great beginner course for excel users of any level. This course delivers a great experience and has increased my knowledge and confidence with Excel and exposed me to various techniques and shortcuts which will undoubtedly be very useful for my personal and professional life.

By Peter R

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Jun 10, 2018

Excellent course.Being familiar with Excel before I did not want to take course initially and move directly to intermediate level. I am glad I took. A lot of information and tips I was not aware of.Strongly recommend for anyone who is planning to excel her/his Excel competence.

By Lalita C

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Mar 13, 2022

The course is well designed and helps build a good foundation of fundamental skills. They somehow managed to not make it boring but instead fun and interesting. Even if you know these skills already, there's always tips and tricks that you could learn that could become useful.

By vanessa p

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Dec 15, 2020

I've been using Excel for almost 20 years, always struggling to find my way.

I feel so much more confident after this course. I've learned a lot and the teachers are great and explain everything very clearly. I would definetely recommend this course to anyone who is self-taught

By Nykeza I

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Dec 2, 2020

The course is very good, practical and relates to real world scenarios. Alot of information is shared, guidance is provided in each step and it caters for different learning styles. I enjoyed learning at my pace and I am grateful for the skills I have developed in using excel.

By Pat G

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Sep 9, 2020

Since I have used templates containing many of these formulas and functions in my work, most of them came quickly and easily. The review and application were very helpful! I am looking forward to the challenges of the next course, though I expect to take longer to complete it.

By Gulshan S

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Aug 23, 2020

It was an awesome experience for me to learn all this stuff about excell at cheap cost. This course made me realize that we need to work hard and understand the concept in order to qualify to learn anything.Thank you prasan and nikki ma'am. Mr Prasann looks like an Indian guy.

By Girish S

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May 31, 2020

A very wholesome introduction to Excel. Printing Excel sheets was quite a daunting task for me due to which I have faced embarrassment in office on more than one occasion. Having passed this course, I now am much more confident with my Excel skills. Thanks to the instructors!!