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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.

RB

Aug 28, 2019

The course was defiantly more than I expected. It not only strengthened what I did know about Excel but it showed me several options that I was not using or haven't found. I would highly recommend it.

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By Maria A M R

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Sep 6, 2020

I loved every lesson I had on this course. It's very interactive and definitely not boring. Everyone, say wow! Every activity makes me very familiar with Excel and I'm just beginning! Indeed, practice makes permanent! Thank you very much, Macquarie University!

By Srujan B

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Aug 23, 2020

Hey, I know how this goes. So, I'll speak to the point. I completed the course and got the certificate too and I vouch that this is worth it for those who really want to start learning how to use Excel. So, I'd say, totally go for it. No second thoughts, guys!

By Sri v v

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Aug 11, 2020

The course is perfectly structured with short videos, practice sheets, quizzes, tool box and many other things. I feel confident while using options in excel and learnt many features. Thank you coursera and Macquarie university. Prashan and Nicky thanks a ton.

By Ehrar s

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May 8, 2020

I would like to say that this course " Excel skills for Business: Essentials" is one of the best online course. I would like to thanks all the team and the university for organising this type of course. I would recommend all to complete this course, Thank You.

By Maria C

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Mar 10, 2020

Very basic skills, but well taught and worth it to fill in the little gaps before continuing on to the higher level courses. Thank you for the great course. The videos are excellent. The tests are well done and the opportunities for practice are really fun.

By Karoline S S O

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Sep 20, 2021

Mi nombre es Karoline Sthephanny Silva Olano y soy estudiante de Ingeniería Ambiental de Perú. Este curso es muy didáctico y los videos que contienen no son para nada pesados ni aburridos, la manera de en que explican es muy fácil de entender. Muchas gracias.

By Sarah A

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Dec 5, 2020

Excel had been one of the programs that I had avoided because I was intimidated. This course was easy to follow and provided good exercises for me to practice; they were challenging and made me think critically but not so hard that they would be discouraging.

By Thu N

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Feb 27, 2019

I rated the Excel Skills for Business: Essentials with 5 stars as I learned and enjoyed studying so much from this program. The lecturers and lectures are both excellent, well organised and very easy to understand. I would recommend this to everybody to try!

By Minni R

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Nov 16, 2017

Excellent Course with step-by-step video easy to follow tutorials. Every video comes with practice lesson and every end of lesson there's an assignment. And it comes with a Final Assignment to wrap up all we have learned. Thank you for creating this tutorial.

By abeer a

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Mar 9, 2023

I learned a lot of things every week that was unknown to me in the past. I am very happy with every piece of information I learned. The course added a lot to me and made me very happy to know something that was unknown to me in the past. Thank you very much.

By Md M K

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Jul 27, 2021

I really loved the course!! Both Prashan and Nicky are amazing instructors. I loved the fact that there were so many practice sheets to get our hands on. The tests were really good too. I am much more confident in my basic Excel skills now than I was before.

By william b

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Feb 14, 2021

Perhaps an updated course with new version of excel could be done eventually, but I would say 95% of the course was relevant to the newest excel version. A few features were different in the new version that were not relatable to the version used in course.

By EAA401

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May 12, 2020

I never had training related to Excel but I have been using it since I got into the Corporate world. With this course I realized how much I have been missing especially on the essentials and short cuts. This course has widened my knowledge in excel for sure.

By Frances A L B

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May 10, 2020

Excellent course - very though and easy to follow. Very clear instructions at each stage of the course. Good to do it over a 6 week period - great to do in the lockdown! Definitely learned the basics of excel and will have much more confidence in using it.

By Ranjit S

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Apr 27, 2020

I was not knowing before even how to do simple calculation with big data in excell but the coursera game me an opportunity to learn it from home and now I know some part of excel work. I am thanking my Institute who provided a platform to join with coursera.

By Angelica T R

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Apr 2, 2020

Everything is explained in detail. It is set ona "real" case, so it is pretty easy to relate to. Exercises are pretty forward.

Excellent for people who are approaching Excel for the first time, and there are some pretty useful tricks for more advanced users.

By Guhapriya S

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Sep 2, 2019

Everybody say WOW! That was an amazing course. I am glad I chose this course to begin my journey through Excel. Nicky and Prashan, are such a pleasure and such proficient educators. All that`s left is to keep practicing because 'Practice makes permanent!' :)

By Christopher C T

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Dec 18, 2017

Course it very educative. It has taken me to another level. Many things I did not know were shown me within the time scheduled. The lecturer are very knowledgeable about the subject and their desire for student to learn can be seen expressed in their lecture

By Manish K

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Jul 26, 2022

I have nothing but good things to say about my experience with Coursera. I have loved the learning I have been able to do and look forward to taking many more classes with them . This couse give the Fumdamental of Excel. Assignment Exercise are the best.

By Rathod N

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Mar 18, 2021

Hi Nicki and Prasanth, You both are awesome tutor. I really learned many things in this course.

How do I contact you. i really want to speak with you. I want to share my feeling with you. If possible please contact 9640105801. my name is Nikitha Rathod.

By lavish j

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Oct 26, 2020

Coursera offers an astonishing chance to develop yourself! Actually, you can learn anything you want from the world's greatest minds. This is a brand new way of learning new things.Inspired by this, I've created very handy application to learn with coursera

By SK S A

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Oct 14, 2020

One of the Best Excel Skill Trainings i have attended and completed. Due to the structure of the course, this course has been very interesting to learn and practice along with the assessment at the end of each module. Every beginner who wants to learn the e

By Alisher S A

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Aug 6, 2020

Thank you for Prashan and Nicky, for their instractions, explanations. It was easy learn excel skills for business: essentials with their teaching video lessons. And finally I would like to Thank the coursera team that they are doing great things for us!!!

By Amal K

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Jul 14, 2020

It was a very wonderful experience by learning together with Sean. The course is fantastic and now by completing it I have full confidence on my basic Excel Skills. Thanks to Ma'am Nicky and Sir Prashan for their guidance. Really "Practice makes Permanent"!

By Luken L

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May 29, 2020

Muy bueno para principiantes, pero si se debe tener una base leve de como utilizar excel. A veces los cuestionarios hacen preguntas de cosas no vistas en los videos. Pero es bastante útil y brinda trucos rápidos y fáciles que hacen el trabajo más eficiente.