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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

AN

Dec 19, 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!

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.

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By Deborah S

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May 27, 2020

An excellent well devised course with affable, likable teachers. Far exceeded my expectations. Thank you. You've raised the bar high, hope other courses are as good on Coursera.

A tiny niggle, can't figure out how to get out of 'sort' and revert worksheet to what it was. Filter is fine.

By NILMADHAV M

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Apr 19, 2020

It is a very useful course for beginners as well as any student.It does not matter which position are you standing or what is your stream.It is very basic certification course for excel.i hope everyone enjoyed this work when they perform their works.

Thank you couresera & my Institution also.

By Sanith U

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Apr 12, 2020

I really loved how Nikki and Prashan explained the way excel worked. It was meaningful and easy to understand. I was able to navigate through excel like a professional by the end of the course.

The assessment and quiz really helped me to navigate through the course.

Thank You to both Of you!

By Adnan I A K

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May 1, 2022

I learned very useful tools and shortcuts. The course allowed me to try those tools make mistakes and learn from them. The course was so clear and undertstandable, the structure of the course was so smooth and will presented. Would like thank MACQUARIE University for providing such courses.

By SANJAY K

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Mar 5, 2021

It's an amazing course for beginners, I would say perfect foundation, The tutor Explantation of the content was accurate and easy to understand. Doing this course and completing the final assignment will help you to get more control over Excel and unlock the real potential of the softrware.

By Monika R

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Nov 13, 2020

Amazing course, guiding a learner through all essential Excel options step by step. I recommend it also to those who think they know Excel. This course helped me fill in the gaps I had. All knowledge provided here is extremely useful, not only at work but also when organizing private stuff.

By Isah M

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Oct 6, 2020

Am Mohammed a tech geek, I took this wonderful course to increase my knowledge in excel and it has help me alot. In fact I was introduced to many things I don't know before. The Instructors are very excellent in impacting knowledge, I look forward to learning more from them.

Thank you all

By Alina M

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Sep 6, 2020

It is such a great course with a lot of practical tasks and clear explanations. This is definitely the source that helps you learn more about excel from the very beginning. Thanks to the whole team that did an amazing job with this course. I will definitely be recommending it to my friends.

By Naziza M H

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Jun 30, 2020

The course was fun. It is organised in small videos along with practice videos which is very handy. I really liked the course. I could finish it way ahead of schedule for its layout of the course. This course helped me a lot to brush up my excel skills. Thank you Coursera and my University.

By Ayleen M A H

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May 27, 2020

So good, very good course to touch on the basics of Excel. Doesn't matter how proficient you think you are at Excel, there's always chance to learn something new, which is exactly what I did. There were many things and tricks I was able to learn because of this course. Totally recommended!!

By Charlotte J L

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Mar 3, 2019

Very systematic and extremely useful. I'm having an internship right now and this course increase my productivity a lot. Will upgrade the course and earn a certificate later when I have time to finish all the exercises. Thanks all the lecturers and ppl who contribute to making this course!!

By 2K19/PE/035 M

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Nov 1, 2022

I enjoyed the course and learned a lot from it. The content is well organised and focused on practical situations. I particularly enjoyed the bits of psychological research shared in the content. This course was short but very informative and very helpful for an aspiring leader like myself

By Sriram P

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Nov 8, 2020

Excellent Teaching by Nicky Mam Prashan Sir, I really loved the slow pace in which they taught all the essential concepts, and some important tips and shortcuts that they gave in between the lesson came in really handy!

Thank You Nicky Mam and Prashan Sir, You made my excel experience easy.

By Brittney W

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Aug 15, 2020

This course is exceptional. The subject matter is presented in a logical and practical manner. The practice quizzes are very helpful in determining if you've understood the various lessons taught. I cannot wait to take the other related courses! I've learned so many new things about Excel!

By Peter K

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Jul 14, 2020

This course really helped me out, it cleared up many of the issues I faced when working with Excel. It is obvious that the instructors know what they're talking about.

I can wholeheartedly recommend this course to anyone who want to turn Excel frustration into Excel with strong confidence.

By Shubham T

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Jun 12, 2020

A very nice course that slowly takes you through the most essential Excel skills. Perfect for a beginner. Would recommend to get yourself also used to the other Excel tools during and after the course, since the course only explores the most useful options. Thank you, Prashan and Niki _/\_

By AYUSH K M

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May 28, 2020

I have learnt Excel from many other platforms and then my friends recommended me Coursera, when I started doing this course, it seemed overwhelming but when you actually pull through is when you learn it. And you learn it for lifetime. Amazing course, Kudos to team. #practicemakespermanent

By Sergio A M O

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May 9, 2020

Really useful content. I had experience using excel before, but as they said, I was self taught. Now I have filled many lacks of knowledge that I had about Excel basics. Thank you so much, I recommend this course 100%. I am going for the intermediate 1 to keep learning and filling my gaps.

By Jilianne C

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May 4, 2020

Though have been using Excel as an undergrad before, I realized that I missed out a lot in Excel. Taking this Excel Skills for Business: Essentials really helped me to be more confident in Excel and to fill in lapses in knowledge about the software. Thank you Coursera for this opportunity!

By Loo Z Y

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Mar 23, 2022

This course provide good materials for basic Excel knowledge.

If you are new to Excel, it is good for you to start here.

But if you already have basic knowledge, this course will only give you some good knowledge about shortcuts or specific function, you should go for the next level course.

By Ruslan K

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Dec 13, 2020

I very like this course! I've got new knowledge of Excel. But I am not saying that I am not familiar with it. Very like the format of education. I think it is the best way to educate in Coursera. Very impressed. I am going further on the next steps of that specialization. Great thunk you!

By Lorrany A S

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Aug 26, 2020

I am very satisfied with this course, it's very didatic and doesn't leave no one behind. If you speak English you can learn all... We practiced a lot, and that's really important. It was a soft, fun and essential course. Congrats to team in the back scenes, I'm moving forward now, thanks.

By Asikur R

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Jul 29, 2020

This course just gave me the opportunity to learn a lot about excel and it makes me feeling more confident in future. Instructors Nicki and Prashan was just awesome throughout the whole course. Thanks a lot to Macquire University for offering this course. Its just an extraordinary course.

By Michael F

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May 3, 2020

Thank you for such an engaging experience with this course and that I really enjoyed Prashan and Nicky inspirational talks. The final test was definitely challenging but it made it even more rewarding passing. I will recommend this to my friends in the future. Thanks again.

Sincerely, Mike

By Nidal H

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May 2, 2020

This course includes the basic essential knowledge to use Microsoft Excel with keyboard shortcuts. The best part I liked about this course is the quiz. They are of mostly practical questions than theoretical. You have to workout the given questions in Excel and find out the answer for it.