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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

SY

Jun 9, 2021

Learned a great deal through this course. Lessons were set up in a very friendly and non-intimidatingly manner. Steps were very clearly explained. Liked they offered tip sheet for future reference.

AN

Dec 20, 2023

An excellent course with basic and fundamental knowledge about Excel! The course has been designed greatly for beginners and anyone who wants to review basic Excel skills. A highly recommended course!

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By Muntaim B S 2

Apr 30, 2021

Excellent teaching and the modules are perfectly organized. Quizzes after completing every lesson was crucial which easily made the lesson more robust.

By Md. N H

Jan 26, 2021

It was an excellent & informative course, course instructors made me very easy to understand the module. I will definitely do the next course of excel.

By Puneet V

Dec 23, 2020

The most interesting and amazing course for a complete beginner in Microsoft Excel. Covers all the basics yet important topics that one must know about

By Sahil K

Dec 17, 2020

Amazing course. Nikky and Prashant do a very good job at teaching you the fundamentals of excel so that you can go about and handle large sets of data.

By MD H

Oct 26, 2020

excellent course to learn the basics of excel. thank you to coursera and concern team for the production of this marvelous course. grateful to you lot.

By Tanvir A

Oct 8, 2020

I have learnt a lot of new things on Excel from this course. I am very grateful to the instructors. They are really awesome teacher. Thank you so much!

By PARAMKUSAM S

Aug 11, 2020

I have not have a basic idea after taking this course learned all things about excel and teachers are explained well to us thank you each and everyone.

By Gwyneth A

Jul 22, 2020

Discussion and instructions were very clear and concise. This course introduces me to a lot of things in Excel and makes my life and work a lot easier.

By Regina C d P

Jul 19, 2020

I really loved the course and found it very useful. The content was clear and there was a great balance between theory and practice. Thank you so much!

By Thanachai Y

Jul 13, 2020

Simplified excellent course for excel beginner and intermediate, I have learned a lot tips despite self user excel for many years. Highly recommended!

By Jahidul I M

May 31, 2020

Outstanding Course with fruitful assessment, practice quizzes, and essential materials will help anyone to gain the basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

By Timiri V

May 31, 2020

Excellent Course! Very well planned and practically oriented. It was fun learning this course and I am looking forward to proceed to Intermediate Level

By Marko L

May 20, 2020

I had decent knowledge before hand so managed to pass this test rather quickly. But excellent little tips and tricks you gave me to use in real life!!

By Julia G

May 18, 2020

Easy to understand and challenging enough without being frustrating. I enjoyed the structure and the instructors. The assignments were interesting too!

By Chinmay D

May 7, 2020

the experience was very good except week 4, in week 4 workbook provided is wrong. some excel sheets are not proper, otherwise, the course was fantastic

By Santosh A

Apr 26, 2020

One of the best course i have ever enrolled in any website or application. Thank You. I will be continuing my journey with you in coming 3 courses too.

By Simran

Apr 18, 2020

Amazing course. So well designed. Each and every concept was clear. Too interactive videos. Assignments designed way. A course worth investing time in.

By sunnyxu

May 26, 2019

Great courses for excel fundamental. The course is well structured and the explanation from Niki and Parshan is very easy to be understood, great work!

By Alejandro G r

Jan 2, 2019

I though I knew how to use excel properly, but this course made me realise how much is needed to be taught properly to fill the gaps in self-teaching.

By Deleted A

Nov 16, 2018

I've already learned about this course from other sources but I don't feel like I can use excel enough. This course makes me a professional. Thank you.

By Joshua B

Apr 4, 2025

Very easy to follow. I didn't need the course really but only took for the specialization. Great content though. I have loved learning from Macquarie.

By Praiya U

Apr 26, 2024

Excellent comprehensive refresh course for those who haven't used excel in a while - for new users, definitely a solid foundation. Highly recommended

By Jazzhy R

Feb 8, 2023

The lessons/videos are short but packed with the information! Best course out ther for excel beginners like me. Will be continuing for Intermediate 1!

By Zakaria H

Mar 26, 2022

I've learned so much from this course. This splendid course guided me from zero to one! I'm glad that I've chosen this one. Thanks to the creators. :)

By Mark F

Oct 26, 2021

I have attended a variety of face to face and online courses for Excel , however this is by far the best course - very comprehensive and professional.