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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 DEBASISH K

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Sep 13, 2020

I am grateful to Macquire University and Coursera for this wonderful experience. Now I am confident with MS Excel. I'll anyway be doing the other two courses offered by Maquire on Excel. Thank you!

By flavio p

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Aug 19, 2020

the course is really basic. Most of the people already know this stuff, but everything is explained in an extremly simple way and there is always some small stuff that you don't know. Great course!

By Vivian

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Aug 14, 2020

It's great that this course actually give feedback on our answers so we can actually review our mistakes! I really appreciate that since other courses i took (4/5 courses) didn't have this feature.

By Daksh P

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Jul 18, 2020

It was really informative course about excel. I learnt new shortcuts and also the process of data sorting and data formatting. I got knowledge about graphs too. The course was interesting to study.

By Syed S M

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Jun 20, 2020

I actually have learnt more from this course about Excel than I knew before and it has helped me a lot. I seem to have better grasp in Excel and feel more comfortable in using it now. Thanks a lot.

By Tijana P

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May 29, 2020

Very usefull, but I still don't understand how to move to next course. I got specializatin which is supposed to have four courses, and I can not access other 3 courses... It is a bit confusing....

By Prerit A

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May 6, 2020

This course is one of the fundamental course that one should take in order to excel in MS Excel. The assignments are very thoroughly prepared which guide us through all the basics of this software.

By SACHIN B

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May 2, 2020

this course is god spirit for beginners i strongly recommend this course for every individual so that you can use excel in your everyday life.

i also appreciate the work done by this team.

thank you.

By Jaganathan S

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Apr 25, 2020

The best part of this course is that it makes you understand the logic of each of the excel commands.

Once you start the course, no way you will leave it incomplete.

Exceptional teaching methodology.

By Ashish D

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Apr 23, 2020

Basic features of excel are covered in this course which makes a huge difference in the performance. The design of the course is well planed which helps in good understanding of the study material.

By Aakash S

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Jan 24, 2020

Nicely structured course with well defined quizzes, practice challenges and assessments to check your knowledge. Will recommend this course to all who wants to learn Excel in a well structured way!

By Jean A

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Jan 11, 2020

Great course, covered Excel essentials, some common knowledge items, but also lots of interesting good to know items. Well worth the time and effort. Online was great, so could complete from home.

By Douglas H

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Oct 20, 2019

Very good introduction to the basic structure and functions of Microsoft Excel. I really liked the article referred to in the course regarding Excel Japanese Artist Tatsuo Horiuchi, truly amazing!

By Afonso L M C

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Aug 12, 2019

Basic Business Excel Skills everyone should know to improve data analysis performance given the easiest and best way possible! Course is clear, fast and direct. Practice makes permanent! Thank you!

By Ghazi R

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Jan 9, 2024

This is the one the best course available online. I always think that I have basic knowledge for excel but after taking this course I can surely say that I have a good grip on the basics of excel.

By Kim

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May 16, 2023

One of the most articulate and comprehendible classes I have ever taken. No matter how long you have worked with Excel, there is always reason to revisit the basics to keep your foundation strong.

By Jennifer R

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May 28, 2022

Was a great referesher course for me and taught me a couple things I don't believe I ever knew. It's been a long time since I had to work with Excel so I really enjoyed getting back to the basics.

By DIANA A L N

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Apr 27, 2021

Es un excelente curso para aprender las herramientas básicas de Excel. La metodología utilizada en el curso facilita aprender desde el punto de vista de un estudiante o practicante de una empresa.

By Muhammad S B Z

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Oct 19, 2020

Wonderful course that aims at targeting even the smallest aspects and points of the Excel spreadsheet. Had a great time practising and nururing my excel skills. Thankyou for this valuable course !

By CA A S

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Oct 10, 2020

A great beginner's course for the ones who never used Excel. Even though I am working on Excel from past three years, still learnt quite a new thing in this course. Thanks a lot Nicky and Prashan,

By Andrii V

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Oct 8, 2020

The best Course I've ever attended. Cool and simple way to improve (?) learn from the beginning MS Excel. Definitely recommend, the worth think is that I can't rate it hire but 5 star ! Well Done!

By Subhankar S

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Aug 13, 2020

The video tutorials are very easy to understand and can be understood by everybody. IT can be learnt at any time . The assessment test as well as practice workbooks make the course more effective.

By Vikas G

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Jul 14, 2020

This course is very useful for me and all the learners who really want to learn excel and do anything in their life. A big Thank You to Coursera and Macquarie university for providing this course.

By Parth G

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Jul 3, 2020

Excellent Course. A must if you want to start with basics. The flow, the instructions and teaching is simply amazing. Highly recommended is its one of the best courses for Excel basics out there!!

By Adnan A

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Jul 3, 2020

Excellent Basic course for excel. Although i knew excel and using it for a long time,i didn't know many of the basic things and definitions are shown in the course. 100 % recommended for everyone.