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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

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.

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.

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By Manish S

Aug 24, 2020

It’s a very helpful course for learners to improve on basic excel skills which help to work with excel at an optimal rate.

Course content and structure are very much enjoyable and excellent. Course teachers deliver the lectures in an efficient manner to help learn the concepts in a very short period to time.

By Shruti G

May 14, 2021

Very detailed and comprehensive. However, kindly include the alternative representation of icons and explanation for older versions of excel along every step if possible, as it would prove to be really useful. Otherwise, the topic was covered very extensively and I was able to understand all the specifics.

By Nidup D

Jul 25, 2020

It was a fantastic course. The course structure, practice quiz and assignments were designed perfectly and did enjoy every bit of the work progress. Learning myriad uses of Excel has been absolutely overwhelming and just waiting to apply in the real world just like Prashan said, "practice makes permanent".

By Siddharth B

May 18, 2020

Kudos to the staff of Macquarie University who taught this course. Practicing on the workbooks alongside the videos really helped me to master the contents in this course. I gained a lot of skills which should help me in the future. Eagerly looking forward to the next course in this specialization series.

By Adarsh S

Apr 14, 2020

This course is definitely one of the most well planned course. The way things are taught and how the doubts are clarified from the first session is amazing. The quiz helped me to remember the basics and the challenges helped me to move further and rectify my mistakes. Kudos to the effort put in the course.

By Hammad A

Dec 25, 2021

I would recommend this course to everyone. It covers all the basic essential related to daily use. The course was very briefly explained by the course teachers in addition with the practice exercises throughout the course .I would like to thanks course instructors and coursera for giving this opportunity.

By Anant P

Jun 10, 2021

Its amazing how the course has been structured for someone who might have no knowledge about the Excel, for someone who is in their college can really make use of this course and really had fun exploring so many small yet significant functions of Excel. Happy to learn this course. Many thanks to the Team.

By Lisa B

Mar 3, 2021

The course was really amazing and managed to improve my confidence by a 100% in only 6 weeks. The lessons are taught in a slow and very easy to follow manner. Useful tricks and short-cuts are taught and there were more than a couple "wow" moments! Thank you for offering this awesome introduction to Excel.

By Emmanuel A

Oct 13, 2020

This course helped me revisit the essential primary functions of Excel and also taught me how to use Excel tools which I have no knowledge prior to the lessons. The pacing of each lesson is easy to follow and is engaging enough that I have no difficulty finishing the requirements even before the deadline.

By Sushil A

Aug 10, 2020

A great course for beginners in MS Excel. I had been using excel for a long time and I thought I knew a lot, but this course showed there's much more to what I knew. It's a well-structred course and I enjoyed the content. The language is very simple for all to understand and the tests are tricky at times.

By Aman R

Jan 25, 2022

Best Excel Resource for someone looking to start its learning path for Technical roles. Starts from very basic to cover all the topics which are generally left out in most of the courses I have taken so far. Looking forward to the Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate Course which I have enrolled for.

By Mosta A

Jul 22, 2020

Really I'm so much happy to spend every single second with this amazing course.

In the first, I thought that I know so much about Excel, but this first course mentioned all that I knew and more really. Thank you for this amazing course and I'm looking forward to finishing the whole specialization soon. ❤❤

By Francesco P S

Aug 18, 2019

Very good foundational course. I would consider myself an intermediate to advanced user, however it was very good practice to review all this material and look forward to the next course. Furthermore, it is important to say that the lecturers are very clear throughout the module, very easy to understand.

By Sunny C

Mar 26, 2023

Really a good course i enjoyed very much. Professor are amazing and teach you from very basic to advanced level and it feels like its very easy to learn. Amazing course i liked very much. Thank you professor for teaching this course and thanks coursera also for providing me such a opportunity to learn.

By Narmina A

Jan 22, 2021

This Course has helped me to significantly enhance my proficiency in working with Excel Software!

This Course really allow you to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively use the Excel program!

Many many thanks to Nicky Bull, Dr. Prashan S.M. Karunaratne, FHEA, A/Professor Yvonne Breyer!

By Francisco A L J

Aug 25, 2020

Es un curso de excel básico, lo considero bastante completo para reforzar y recordar conocimientos. Muy ágil, entretenido y práctico. Muy recomendable.

It is a basic excel course, I consider it quite complete to reinforce and remember knowledge. Very agile, entertaining and practical. Highly recommended

By Umi F A G

Jul 12, 2020

It was a very exciting and crucial course for those who are using Excel on a daily basis. I had learned Excel while working, however, it was without a proper basic foundation. This course has helped me walk through it effectively. I am so grateful that I have completed this course during this pandemic.

By Arslan H

Aug 29, 2018

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a great experience with courser to complete my certificate. I'm so glad at the moment and looking forward to get more certificate to enhance my knowledge and practical skill to help my real life.

once again thanks to all my teachers who prepare all the videos slides and test.

Regards,

Arslan Hameed

By Kelly L

Oct 2, 2021

Thank you! Despite of working in excel every day, I still find new knowledge. With this course, I have gotten a deep understanding and things that I did not know before and some details of formating chart and data + new shortcuts. I am very happy to continue learning excel and advance the knowledge!

By ANKIT A

Apr 24, 2021

Hands down the best excel course out there. This course takes you to every details and forces you to try different things on your own and that's a very important part of learning anything new. It's beautifully designed. Thanks to the faculty members and Coursera for bringing such a great course to us.

By Sarah N R

Oct 4, 2020

This is a great course for anyone who wants to sharpen their Excel skills! It's easy to follow along, the instructors are very good at explaining things, and it really explains the important essentials of Excel. Very pleased I was able to complete this course and become more confident with the basics!

By Anthony L

Jul 12, 2022

Well done course covering the basics of Excel! The pace is what I liked the most. Some courses online promise you'll master a software in six hours or less, well, Excel is more complex than that! The hands on exercises give a little at a time, so I never felt overwhelmed. Excited for the next course!

By ERICK E G C

Oct 29, 2021

Durante este curso pude aprender un poco más acerca del Excel, de como se pueden elaborar gráficos estadísticos y realizar filtro que puedes llegar a evitar un largo trabajo en el caso de que sean muchas informaciones en la celda. También pude aprender a imprimir una pagina de Excel y darle formato.

By Nutsima P

Sep 6, 2021

I really enjoy with your course. It's make me improve this skill so much and I'm very surprised when I find something that I don't know Microsoft excel can do. You done really good job. I want to learn with you much more. So please add your course. Thank you for all of excellent teacher. Love you!!!!

By R G

Feb 6, 2019

Extremely useful! especially for those who are self-taught. I thought I knew even the most basic of thigs, but boy was I wrong. Now that I have competed the course, I can see that I waste less time and have higher quality spreadsheets.

The format of the course is very well done and keeps you engaged.