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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 Eliud G

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Sep 20, 2020

I enjoyed the course from the beginning to the end. The course is well structured and really spanned across what I was looking forward to. It was so addictive that I felt like doing the next lesson after completing one.

Good job to the organizers and presenters.

Eliud

By Keval V

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Jun 29, 2020

This course is truly legendary. Best thing I like about this course is you have to truly understand concepts to submit quizzes because you need to perform operations in workbook for obtaining answers (Quizzes are not MCQ based). EVERYBODY SAY WOW! [inside joke ;-) ]

By Fion K

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Aug 8, 2021

Absolutely easy to follow, and the lectures are organized chronologicallty so you will never be left behind. You can also practice in your own time, which is a plus. I highly recommend it if you want to learn all the basic functions of excel to advance your career.

By Muzammil S

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Apr 3, 2021

Thank You so much for providing me this opportunity and helping me learn so much. This course has helped me allot in learning MS Excel Basics. I would strongly recommend this course to people that are in their early stage and want to have a strong command on Excel.

By SAYAD M R R

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Feb 25, 2021

Amazingly structured. The way Prashan & Nicky explained the whole thing was fabulous. The learning experience & test processes were smooth and user friendly. Can't wait to continue with their other modules. I strongly recommend this course. Thanks, Prashan & Nicky.

By Francis S

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Dec 26, 2020

Thi s course has really enhanced and further improve my skills in the excel, data visualization and the basic understanding to the terms in the excel and its vitality. Thank you very much coursera and to the Ghana Library Authority for such wonderful opportunity.

By Jorge T R

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Oct 3, 2020

This is really Excel Essentials, but you will learn a lot of useful things even though you have been using Excel for a while.

The course is very well presented and you will have the chance to practice what you learn, so you don't forget easily.

Very much recommended!

By Yauwan M D

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Jun 10, 2020

Its been a very good course in which I learnt a lot of basic skills of Excel which I never knew. The instructors were good and it is a hand on course so every skill you learn you will have a practical version of it. It is a wonderful course and brilliant lecturers.

By Sangeeta J

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Feb 5, 2021

This complex spreadsheet software course (Excel) is very well structured and put-forth in a simple and easy-to-understand format by the course creators and facilitators. It was a nice learning experience and looking forward to completing the specialization course.

By Julian F C Q

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Sep 20, 2020

The course is really well explained and the instructors are well versed on the topic. I also think that the course is correctly structured and is understandable for beginners. It can also be useful for people that are familiar with Excel, because this was my case.

By Ishita M

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Aug 21, 2020

The course is very detailed. One might find some things too basic to learn but will actually clarify any doubt if one might have regarding the tools used. The practice quizzes after each and every video and challenge set ensures the practice part. Loved the course

By Saurav C

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Jul 3, 2019

The Course was exceptional. I have no words to say. For me, It was like an addiction doing this course as I have completed this whole course in only 6 days practicing the whole day and night. Will recommend everyone who is looking for a foundation course on Excel.

By Francisco B

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Apr 29, 2019

Great course, great professors. It is really excellent the way these professors explain. Thank you very much Coursera, and thank you very much to the University of Macquarie. The way this course was developed is fantastic. Congratulations. Francisco , Costa Rica.

By Beau B

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Mar 18, 2019

This course has changed the way I interact with data driven projects. I am finding new ways to implement my Excel knowledge every day. The cross over, learning Excel helps one run Sales Force graphs, as an example, is endless. I couldn't recommend this class more!

By Ashish G

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Dec 15, 2018

This course was exceptionally good and instructors were phenomenal. Any layman can understand and develop his skills in excel. I was lucky to find this course on coursera, as it laid the basic foundation for excel. I would highly recommend this course to everyone.

By ROSTERS C

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Feb 27, 2024

I didn't know much about excel but after completing the course i feel competent in using excel. the videos were short, easy to follow and straight to the point. I enjoyed the content in this course all the way from the beginning till the end. Thank you very much.

By Steven B

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Oct 25, 2022

Learned a lot of new things on this Excel course. Tough course for the beginner, but it challenges you to remember and think of how to get through the course. If one likes challenges this is the course for you. I found it fun learning Excel through this course.

By Angelica L

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Aug 3, 2021

I learned a lot from this course even though I had already some background knowledge about Microsoft Excel but it helps me a lot to explore important functions of this application that I can apply in my work. Thank you so much for having this amazing opportunity!

By Phokoane A K

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Jan 7, 2021

Great course content. Enjoyed the videos because I prefer watching videos over reading. The practice quizzes and assessments that come with workbooks are also a great way to consolidate each week's content and give the learner a chance to practice with real data.

By Jizel f

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Oct 22, 2020

The instructors were amazing and the videos were great. I love how they broke down everything which made it simple and easy to understand and follow along in practice. I feel a lot more confident trying to navigate excel but as always "practice makes permanent".

By RAHUL S

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Aug 20, 2020

This course not just teaches you it always makes you practice the previous sessions so that you are always updated. This course is designed in such a way that if you forget the earlier completed session you cannot proceed further with learning the concepts again.

By Clement A A

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Aug 11, 2020

This has really improved my skills in excel and increased my confidence as well. The course is really uplifting and made very easy to understand. I really love the practical aspect of things in this course. The instructors are very good. I have enjoyed it. Thanks

By Md F S

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Jun 14, 2020

This is one of the core concept course for whom want to learn excel lots of basic things are in here. So it will help to improve basic knowledge and it will also create strong concept which will helps to do batter in advance excel courses as well as in workpless

By Joanne O

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May 10, 2020

Great Essentials course. Most of us are self taught excel users, however this course teaches us the small things eg. shortcuts that we may have not picked up along the way. Great for reinforcing what you know. Looking forward to the next instalment of the series.

By José d J H B

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Jul 25, 2019

This was a great course. Although I had already some knowledge about excel, this course gave me some other tools that I did not know and I filled some gaps that I had in this program. I really like the activities and the way this course reinforced your knowledge.