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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

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!

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.

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By Pedro A d G A

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Apr 11, 2021

This is a very well designed and thorough, basic course. The tests were a good tool to colplete the understanding. Although I work with Excel for a very long time, I decided do do the "Essencials" course and I don´t feel my time was lost. I will carry on to the next level.

By HARSHITA S

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Nov 30, 2020

The best ever learning of excel I have got. The shortcuts, great visualisation, practice workbooks, ninja tips, daily quiz and practicing excel persistently have made me it on my finger tips. This course have helped in my present needs. I look forward to advanced courses.

By Shubham J

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Nov 30, 2020

This is an excellent course! The educators have designed each and every chapter of this course very carefully! They considered most of the minor problems a student might go through and they explained solutions in simple and easy. Thank you Coursera for such a great course.

By Steven W A

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May 31, 2020

course instructors teach this course easily. They represent visual more efficiently. In software learning course its necessary good visual. The assessment processes was good but final assessment was little bit hard. I enjoyed this course. now I feel confident to use Excel.

By Md. F R

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May 23, 2020

This is one of the best courses until now I have learned from Coursera. I started this course as a complete beginner. Now I am comfortable with my work with excels. I recommend for a beginner and a partial knowledge in Excel, who wants to learn excel should do this course.

By Haoming L

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Jan 21, 2020

Great course! The lectures are all very clear and two lecturers are very patient. Most importantly, when you answer questions correct in the assessment, you will see words of encouragement under the "tick" symbol, a design that is unique among all the courses I have taken.

By Trisha L P

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Oct 24, 2023

This course is a really good entry into learning how to use Excel more effectively and efficiently. All the tips and the pacing made it really easy to understand how to use Excel. I would recommend this course to beginners looking to refine their basic knowledge of Excel.

By Nebiyu Z

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Sep 18, 2020

I REALLY APPRECIATE THE UNIVERSITY AND COURSERA ARRANGING SUCH IMPORTANT SHORT TERM COURSES IN SUCH SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. YOUR QUESTIONS ARE EASY TO PASS IF STUDENTS REALLY ATTEND CLASS REGULARLY. THE COURSES MIGHT BE SHORTEN TO THE POINT IF IT DEMANDED OR ITS TECHNICAL.

By Nicole A

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Sep 2, 2020

Great course for a new excel user! I was able to learn fast and quickly grasp new and more advanced concepts. I really liked the way these instructors explained things and then further reinforced them with application. I would definitely recommend this class to others!

By Md M T

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Jul 1, 2020

Though I have used Excel in my earlier life but this course has packed all the basic stuffs along with numerous techniques I wasn't aware of but used to anyway. This course will definitely benefit the newbies and also help the intermediate ones to grasp the whole picture.

By Laura B J O

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May 26, 2020

El curso me ha parecido muy completo y de alta calidad. Se agradece mucho cada video que da demostraciones así como las posibles dudas que se resuelven previas a cada tarea.

También me gusto mucho la parte de los tips y algunas sugerencias para el uso de Excel. Felicidades

By KANTAYA J

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Apr 30, 2020

Big thank you to Parshan, Nikki and all the specialization team members! This specialization is the best of all courses I've enrolled. I love how they motivate learners to practice, their voice, how they teach, everything in this course just perfect and very professional!

By Pedro G

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Jan 30, 2018

I was looking for intermediate to advanced excel. I still decided to give it a try, take all the courses, and i realized that i didnt know a bunch of little details, even tho the class is supposed to be a beginner class.

If you are interested in the excel, do not hesitate

By Intisarul A

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Oct 3, 2023

A very well organized and detailed course, that addresses every possible issue that arises using MS Excel. Specially the assessments are very well crafted and really makes sure that the learner has gained the best understanding of the techniques and ways around MS Excel.

By Thanuja K

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Dec 20, 2022

It is very good course and i have learnt lot of things that is very essential for me, but the assignment session even though i gave correct answer that was evaluated it as wrong after some attempts i have reached the goal of 80% please consider correct answers. Thank You

By shahid e

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May 24, 2021

It was a great journey. Before joining the course, I thought this Course gonna be boring, But it was totally the opposite. The way they designed the course in short videos and assignments made it really interesting and easy. I highly recommend people to join this course.

By Pragyaa

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Feb 8, 2021

Fantastic course. Now, not just because of the tutorials, but the exercises were so well planned! It also shows the effort the makers put into this course's structure. And the final assessment really stood up to its title. Felt thoroughly challenged and yet appreciative.

By SJ H

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Nov 25, 2020

This is one of the best instructor led courses i've ever taken on Coursera. You will have to speed the videos up slightly, but i'd rather it be too slow than too fast with software. If everyone at this University teaches like this, I will gladly attend. Everyone say wow.

By Midulaj S

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Oct 27, 2020

As a student who used excel only for sums and products, this is a tremendous change for me. Learned a lot from this course. This course also helped me solve problems in my Spreadsheet Modeling Course at my Institute. My heartfelt gratitude to the entire team behind this.

By Trisha D

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Oct 22, 2020

Very enriching course. I immediately used the material I learned over the past 6 weeks at work. Ideal course for finance specialist (entry and mid-level). Very friendly and happy staff. The course is well-structured with plenty of resources for additional support- Trisha

By Alex A C d l C

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Sep 29, 2020

A little bit harder for non-english speakers because questions on tasks remains in english though the translate tool in chrome and sometimes the vocabulary is very specific, that make it confusing, I did my best, Thanks for this course. Final Assesment make me so nervous

By SUMEET M

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May 7, 2020

Their methodical approach towards exploring new terminologies and properties of excel is fabulous for a beginner in any stage of life, be it a 10-year-old or an elderly person.

Just loved the whole experience with short and brief explanation to all of the basic concepts .

By Demetrius W

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Dec 8, 2019

I really enjoyed the videos and step by step tutorials. The lectures coupled with instruction helped build my confidence to use these skills in the workplace. Thank you for taking the time to create this course. I look forwards to taking more courses offered by Coursera.

By Sebastian A

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Aug 7, 2019

Excellent Course:

There are one or two of the quizzes and tests that either require more explanation or have different data on Mac than the one displayed on the test, but aside from that I found absolutely no complications and my skills in excel have been vastly improved.

By M R

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Jun 29, 2021

This was such an amazing and eye-opening course. I am elated I decided to learn excel and Nicky Bull alongside Dr Prashan has made it unbelievably convenient and I could feel the effort that they have expended on this course. Truly am appreciative & grateful. Thank you.