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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....

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KS

Jun 30, 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.

DN

Feb 2, 2023

The explanations in this course were concise and easily understood. The course materials are very helpful with helping you get some practice in and furthering your understanding of the course content.

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By marcin d

Mar 4, 2018

very neat introduction for absolute beginners as well as a nice recap for those with a good grasp of excel, but in need of systematizing excel vocabulary / shortcuts etc

By Tracy B

Oct 11, 2023

If you think you know the basics of Excel (like I did), you'll be surprised at the amount of information you were missing out on! Take this course, you won't regret it.

By Israel G E

Sep 11, 2022

Muy útil incluso si llevas años usando asiduamente excel como es mi caso, aprendes muchas cosas que no sabías y que te harán ahorrar trabajo. Lo recomiento enormemente.

By Hussain A

Jul 17, 2022

This course gives all the necessary basics of Excel. The presentation of the instructors is very understandable. It was an enjoyable journey for me through this course.

By Daniel C

Aug 16, 2021

I just want to say thank you very much to Nicky, Dr. Prashan, Yvonne. Great curse, you make it easy for me to learn. 

Let begin Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate I

By Subbu K

May 2, 2021

The best course I had ever gone through. The way this course is organised is awesome.Thank you very mush Shan , Nickey and coursera for giving me a wonderful course.

By Stavros P

Feb 16, 2021

Thank you allfor the support, I have received American education and I can tell that this is one of the courses I have been teached !!!All the best !

Stavros g. Petrakis

By HUMAIDAH A B A

Dec 31, 2020

EXCELLENT! I have learnt a lot through this course from simplest thing like row, column and cell to managing data, presentation of data and also created a useful chart.

By Maria V U C

Dec 16, 2020

Me gustó mucho este curso. Apredí cosas que realmente no sabía sobre Excel, que agilizan el trabajo y ayudan en muchos sentidos al utilizar el programa. Muchas gracias!

By Pink H R

Nov 6, 2020

I've never understand excel like I do now. I'm very thankful for the opportunity to learn its basics and for the course that is very comprehensive and student friendly!

By Ramesh C

Oct 29, 2020

Great Learning Experience. Course contents are very clear to help understand. I have learnt a lot which will be very helpful to me while using Excel for my office work.

By Elliane R

Sep 9, 2020

This was a great beginners course. It really helped me to learn and understand the basics of Excel...Lovely! I can't wait to make use of it in the workforce! ---Ellie

By Saurabh B

Aug 24, 2020

The course gave me some in-depth knowledge of Excel, which will help me a lot in my career. Nicky, Prashan and Yvonne you have done a great job by creating this course.

By AYNUR M

Aug 9, 2020

I have improved my knowledge and this will help me in my work life. In addition to, i learned incredible shortcut keyboards. Thank you to the organizers of this course.

By Sheharyar S

Jul 21, 2020

Course materials were good, the mentoring approach was good. The instructor did a good job of communicating and making it a more intimate arrangement. I learned a lot.

By Tanvir H

Jul 16, 2020

This was an amazing journey throughout this course. I forgot many things due to lack of practices but it reminded me of all the basic things which are really necessary.

By Lyannie Y G V

Jul 14, 2020

Aprendi mucho!! realmente el curso esta diseñado para aprender y el examen final fue un reto cumplido, muchas felicidades, están ayudando a muchas personas a superarse.

By Jannatul M R

Jul 8, 2020

This is an amazing course. I am able to learn so many things in a very efficient way. From now, Excel gonna be my new skill. Just loved it and Thanks to the instructor.

By Khushboo G

Jun 7, 2020

It is really helpful application which helps an individual to learn and acquire knowledge according to their timings. Workbook helps us to be in track with our courses.

By RAVI M

May 16, 2020

A great course in Excel Essentials with brief videos covering all the necessary topics. This course is definitely recommended if you wish to master the basics of Excel.

By abhinay k

May 15, 2020

IT WAS AN VERY GOOD LEARNING , GOT TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW N SOME NEW SHORTCUT KEYS.

I WILL LIKE TO THANKS COURSERA AND MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY FOR SUCH AN ESSENTIAL COURSE.

By Gopal B

Apr 28, 2020

Wow! Simply Amazing course by Coursera. It very well structured course. Explanation by Prashan and Nicky was excellent. I have learnt a lot and upgraded my excel skill.

By 오잉

Feb 3, 2020

I thought it's gonna too easy for me, because I learned Excel before. But there're a lot to learn in this course. Thanx. But I think week6 course need more explanation.

By Mohamed Z

Feb 2, 2020

Time spent on Coursera is enjoyable as it makes the learning process easier and simpler. With Coursera the lifelong learning process becomes adorable and it's worth it.

By Urja

Nov 22, 2019

This is great useful course for the basics. The lessons are easy to follow and tests your skills while doing the quizzes. I would recommend this for those new to Excel.