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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 sayli p

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Aug 22, 2020

I really liked this course, the instructors & their teaching Methodology. This will clear your all basic Excel doubts and get you prepare to learn Intermediate & Advance versions. I am really confident with my basic excel skills now. I would like to thanks the University, instructors & Coursera. Please go for this course.

By Oluwaloni O

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Jun 3, 2023

Excel is such a powerful tool. I absolutely loved the course structure. It was comprehensive and encouraged me to practice all lessons. I also love that essential concepts were repeated all through the course making sure that the were understood. I have learnt so many new things about Excel in such a short space of time.

By Jeannette A

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Jun 9, 2020

This is a well structured class, my excel skills are self taught so essentials was really able to fill in some gaps. The practice workbooks are essential and very helpful. The format of the class is well organized and executed. I already feel more confident in my skills and ready to learn more in the intermediate levels.

By Deborah O N

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Aug 21, 2020

You think you know all the essentials? I thought so too.

Turns out I didn't. A number of processes I stressed about can actually be done automatically by following some simple steps. Want to manage and visualize your data more easily? Excel has got you covered, but you probably don't know yet. You should try this course.

By S S

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Mar 27, 2019

The course has been very well outlined and presented. I really enjoyed doing this course and flexibility of timings and doing it at my convenient phase. I will strongly recommend the course to my friends and is a platform for learning & enhancing the skills on various topics. Looking forward to continue my learning jour

By Allven C

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Jan 14, 2024

I really loved the course. It's a must course for all the beginners who want to learn and master the excel. I am really greateful that I took this course. And I am so happy right now, because I completed the finall course assessment. Feeling so happy right. In the course specially the assessment were very much helpful.

By Sarah M

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Oct 2, 2023

it was a wonderful experience learning with MACQUARIE University. it was the best Excel Training ever. everything was made easy within a short period of time. i sincerely appreciate the opportunity given to me to learn, i also appreciate my facilitators they are all great. thank you a million times God bless you all.

By Ronald W

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May 5, 2021

Very clear overview of the basics of Excel. As an experienced user of Excel I have learned what the name is of specific tools and even got to learn some shortcuts to speed up my work. If you already have some experience you will do this course in almost twice less the time as stated. Looking forward to the next course!

By Vivek A R

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Dec 25, 2019

This course structured for anyone who wants to know basic functionalities of Excel. The pedagogy was also designed to keep the student motivated by solving practical examples and to reinforce what was being taught. Overall, a perfectly designed course. Highly recommended for anyone who needs a basic knowledge of Excel!

By Linda A

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Aug 8, 2018

There was something here for everyone. It wasn't just for beginners. Even though I already had some knowledge in Excel, I gained a lot of tips and tricks I never learned before. The teachers explained good reasons for knowing certain skills and gave real examples on how to use the new skills. It was well worth taking.

By Patricia I C

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Aug 8, 2020

I've been using Excel for years but I learned about a number of tools I never bothered to use before because I didn't know how. Even if this is a basic course, it is all-encapsulating and insightful. This course is highly recommended for those who want to lay a solid foundation for learning more advanced Excel skills.

By Heather T

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Sep 13, 2018

This course does a great job of introducing Excel. The pace is good for first-timers with clear instructions, and is still a nice review for those who just need to brush up their basic Excel skills. It will not get in to some of the very technical nitty-gritty of what Excel is capable of, but is a good start/review.

By Bethany W

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Jun 17, 2018

Very informative! I started an internship and had very little exposure to excel. By the time I was done with this course I was making spreadsheets with no problem at all! I was even starting to manipulate and analyze the data independently! And to think this is only course 1? Wow!!!! My managers were very impressed :)

By Darrytt J A

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Apr 13, 2022

As a complete beginner in Excel, I have come out of this course feeling extremely comfortable and confident in basic operations of the software. The subjects covered and the speed at which the difficulty and complexity increased were perfect for anybody with minimal prior experience such as myself. Loved the course!

By Jesus D A

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Feb 18, 2021

Curso muy útil para comenzar tu andadura por el mundo de Excel. Soy español y si que es necesario cierto conocimiento de inglés para realizarlo, ya que, aunque los videos tengan subtítulos, los cuestionarios son enteramente en inglés. Muy contento con los videos, los profesores y con mi aprendizaje. Recomendable 100%

By Sandra S

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Jul 17, 2022

This was a great course. I have taken a college level course as part of my continuing education that wasn't nearly as helpful as this course was. I really enjoyed the explanations of how exel works, because it helped me have a better idea of what is going on within the spreadsheet and all the various calculations.

By Arnol S

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Apr 29, 2022

I am really satisfied with the course, and I can see a real improvement with my Excel skill. I'm becoming more confident in handling dataset and to visualize it. The course is managed so well, and the information in the feedback to each assesment answer is really helpful. My big thanks to Mr. Prashan and Mrs. Nicky.

By Yashonandan M

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Apr 30, 2020

Very informative course and made extremely straightforward with the guided excel files and the end of the week challenge. One of the best courses if you want to learn the basic functionality of excel or even acquire some "ninja tips" to provide you with much needed shortcuts, helpful even for proficient excel users!

By Junaid A K

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Oct 13, 2022

Excellent course with perfact examples and real life scenarios and simulation to enhance understanding. The trainers were very professional and thorough. Great work by Coursera and Macguire University. Already feeling better in terms of my skills and knowledge about excel but remember."Practice makes permanent!".

By Craig H

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Dec 28, 2020

I learned a lot. Like many self-taught excel users, there are huge gaps in my knowledge. The essentials course updated fundamental skills that I will need to know to continue leveraging the power in the excel platform. The course is very easy to follow and the online lesson modules and projects are well crafted.

By James S

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Sep 9, 2020

Great course! Thank you.

Useful, easy to follow (and flexible) sequence of video and practice quiz. Easy to review if necessary.

Engaging and professional presenters. Professional videos.

TOUGH exam. A real challenge at the end. I didn't plan to take the next level course but now I am motivated thanks to this course.

By Amar K

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Jun 26, 2020

the course was awesome. It was really engaging, if you don't believe it then let me tell you that I finished the course in 4 days.

I thank all the instructors from the bottom of my heart. thank you very much for making this course this much interesting. I am proud to say that I am your student.

thank you very much!

By Mohammad H M S

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Jul 26, 2022

i have finished many courses online before in many areas, this is the First course in this platform, with real great effor and keen to teach the subject, organized and covering most gaps in your prior knowledge.

not only like come'n guys, lets make a course and let people pay for it.

thanks for the team behind this

By Linda S

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Mar 4, 2021

Great overall. I like how the instruction was broken up into different topics so each topic was easy to digest. Loved that you could practice along with the instruction to better absorb material. My one complaint is with the final quiz and you shouldn't have to repeat it every time you do not make a passing grade.

By Dike J

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Nov 24, 2020

It has been a great learning experience for me. The course instructors are so wonderful and detailed in explaining the course. The Weekly challenge were also very helpful.

I have previously enrolled for a for this same course in the past but the experience is not the same when compared to this one.

I am very please.