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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 Awais N

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Nov 27, 2020

The course was really marvelous. It covered a lot about Excel and made me an Expert excel user. Now I really prefer my friends to use this platform for study.... Thank you coursera!

By Vienes M

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Nov 21, 2020

This course taught me more than just the basic of excel. I could definitely apply what I learned on my daily task. Thank you for all the exercises, practice really makes permanence.

By 17G113 V A V

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Aug 12, 2020

Extraordinary course for every excel beginners. Starting from simple cell to charts, the contents were delivered in an very engaging way. The cognitive way of learning is excellent.

By Rafaela T d Q A

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Jul 16, 2020

I would like to thank Macquarie University

for teaching me this important content in such a short time. I'm sure this course will improve my curriculum.

Thank you, Rafaela Teixeira.

By Benson E F

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Jul 8, 2020

I knew very little about using Excel and what it can do. This beginners course was very helpful and my confidence level skyrocketed after completing. Will be taking all 4 courses!

By Muhammad H

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May 6, 2020

One of the Fantastic way to learn the excel, Sharp way i love it. This will provide the skills and the quality what you want to see in yourself and even the market demand from you.

By Shakera B

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Apr 12, 2020

I found the lessons to be very informative and easy to follow. I highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to learn about excel or just wanting to further develop their skills!

By Eva C

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Nov 14, 2019

Great course, I gained the knowledge I really need to in a rather easy and fun way. Thanks a lot for this I would definitely recommend this training. So many useful tips and tricks.

By Karampogas A

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Apr 17, 2019

- Large collection of data, assignments after each video, easy to follow and very thorough videos. All of these futures some up this 6-Week course. I would definitely do that again!

By Isabel B

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Nov 19, 2018

Nice course on excel basics. I learned a lot in just about 8h of study time (video speed set to x1.25-x1.75). I liked the rythm of short video clips, practice exercices and quizzes.

By Soolin K

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Mar 5, 2018

I thought I knew about essential stuffs about excel, but there were some features I did not know about. This course was very useful and I will continue with the Intermediate course!

By Muhammad H

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Feb 2, 2022

Awesome course to enroll in. I have got better command in excel now. Looking forward to enroll in other advanced courses as well. The instructors were just GREAT. Hats off to them.

By HAEJUN's d

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Sep 14, 2021

excellent! i want to give my thanks to collge for helping an student account so that i can acess coursera in order to learn amazing skills that are essential for my work in the fut

By Hernán A M S

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Apr 8, 2021

I graduated from completing the course satisfactorily and also being able to acquire new knowledge about excel that helped me throughout my professional career and in my workplace.

By MUKKAMALLA H S R

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Dec 26, 2020

Thanks to Dr. Prashan and Nicky & also to Macquire university for providing such a great course. I have learnt a lot about Excel as i am a beginner. This helps me a lot in future.

By BJ M M

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Aug 30, 2020

This course is fantastic. I have known few techniques in using Microsoft Excel but going through all the discussions, I have learned more useful ways to improve my skills in excel.

By Anwesh M

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Aug 22, 2020

One of the best and most detailed courses throughout Coursera. The assignments, challenges and assessments are fun and challenging and actually contribute to building excel skills.

By VILASHINI R

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Aug 11, 2020

Thank you so much for providing this course. the couse was very much interesting to learn more things in excell. i thank the instructor ...who was guided clearly and interestingly.

By Mohammed A K

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Jul 25, 2020

It was amazing, Interesting, Easy and I'm very happy to complete the course very easily.

The instructors are amazing, the course is easy to understand and the tips are very helpful.

By Laura S

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Jun 4, 2020

Very well laid out and paced. Instruction is very clear! I had Excel experience before, but I learned a lot, especially different shortcuts to help me more efficiently use Excel!

By Tassi E

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May 28, 2020

The videos were short and easy to follow. The language used was clear and concise. So far this has been the most helpful course for me. I know that I have improved my Excel skills.

By Ally B

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May 17, 2020

Thorough course on the basics of Excel to equip your toolbox. Also good refresher course for those who use Excel at a very basic level already, and want to solidify what they know.

By Dr. S R

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May 9, 2020

Awesome Experience: Knowledge of Expert knowledge & their content delivery are really great Further, the explanation of topics using example makes it easy to understand the logic

By K S S C S

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Apr 9, 2020

The course teaches from the very basics. I was directly able to attempt all quizzes as I am trying to get specialization of excel. I have to start learning from intermediate level.

By Guy S

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Feb 6, 2020

Great for beginners but I highly recommend learning on PC. The subtle differences with a Mac can be really confusing and prove to be challenging if you want to learn the right way.