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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!

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 Asif R

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Sep 18, 2023

Really appreciate the efforts and hard work of the instructors to make the course very easy for us. Learn the whole course by just practicing once and mastered what i learned. Thanks.

By NIKHIL G

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Apr 27, 2023

The course instructors were patient and explained everything in detail, clearly showing their experience with Microsoft Excel.

The course is very well structured and comprehensive...

By Dave W

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Apr 11, 2022

No matter how long you have been using Excel - there are always little gems for you to learn.

I thought the content was well produced and cehllenging enough for different skill levels

By Andrés F S M

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Nov 20, 2020

Great course, I have really learnt some tricky things and shortcuts to apply in my routine using Excel. I appreciate so much your time spend in the teaching of this course, thank you!

By Melle

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Nov 3, 2020

Straightforward and clear teaching style partnered with visuals that's why the lessons are easier to learn. Great thanks to Prof. Prashan, Prof Nikki, and the team behind this course.

By Travis H

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Sep 1, 2020

Excellent course for beginners and an excellent course for those with experience with excel but who have never received any formal training. I would recommend this course to everyone.

By RONALD R M 2

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Aug 26, 2020

Kudos to Prashan, Nikky & all other staffs worked behind this course. Exceptional course material, and interesting class. Planning to take other 3 courses left in this specialization.

By Amoin J U C N

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Aug 22, 2020

Really great class. Even when I had some notion of Excell, I learn a lot. The content was clear, not hard at all to understand and really well explained and break down. I just like it

By Sushil K S

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Jul 26, 2020

Excellent program with in depth learning modules and interactive assignments. Unique process leads to high levels of engagements and sharper learnings. Highly recommended for learners

By Bibhash R

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Jul 12, 2020

One of the best cource to learn excel. The way of teaching is so good and easy to understand. A;so bit by bit test to know how much i have understood. Really thanks to make it happen.

By Rajendra S

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May 31, 2020

Excellent way of conducting course, learner centric, very well structured and designed givning hands on practice and make it easy to understand.........................thanks Coursera

By Mahabub K

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May 12, 2020

This first is the course, I have completed. I developed my skills from here. Let's see another part that has not yet. Pray for me, this course will be finished as earlier as possible.

By Richa S

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Sep 18, 2019

It is the best course for beginners in excel. They provide each and everything for beginners. It is an amazing course I will suggest everyone who wants to learn excel try this course.

By Abhishek R K

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Nov 7, 2018

COURSERA WILL BE SO USEFULL IF WE USE IT CORRECTLY AND IT HELPS US TO LEARN MANY THINGS WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW

I AM HAPPY TO HAVE COURSERA AND HAPPY FOR COMPLETING A COURSE SUCCSEFULLY

By Carlos B

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Aug 14, 2024

Una gran opción si es que no tienes nada de conocimiento en cuanto a Excel, se ve lo más básico y los video son muy entretenidos y las evaluaciones te incitan a explorar más en excel

By Syed R A

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Feb 11, 2021

This has been a phenomenal course. For someone who use excel on a regular basis, I learned a lot of new tricks. Hats off to the instructors for guiding so well throughout the course.

By Kristen A

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Oct 4, 2020

I did not think I would learn anything new in the basic, but I discovered a few tricks I was not aware of. I am satisfied with this course and will move on to the next level of Excel

By Federica M

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Aug 5, 2020

It's very interesting and exciting. It's very clear and there are many tools to can improve your skill, and practice. In the end but not least this training approach is a lot of fun.

By ASHOK R M

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Jul 11, 2020

This is excellent course. Very user friendly . Enjoyed learning advanced Excel. Thanks Coursera and faculty Prashan and Nicky. They are amazing. Thank you very much for your support.

By Muhamad A B A B

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Jul 4, 2020

Well-explained videos with enough exercises. Well-thought assignments/challenges, quizzes & final examination which are helpful to familiarise/practice what the students have learnt.

By Maria C

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Jul 1, 2020

If you dont know anything about Excel and you are a little scared. Take this course it had helped me to see excel as an excellent tool of learning, thank you so much for this course.

By O N

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Jun 25, 2020

the provided activities + questions after each video helped me to apply what I learned.

very professional and informative way of teaching. I really recommend this course. many thanks

By Andrea G

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Jun 10, 2020

Excellent course, one of the best I have been on Coursera, everything is well explained and there are many activities to practice. I really love it and will continue with the others.

By Cailassame N S N

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Jun 9, 2020

I would recommend this course for even someomne who is familar with excel. Because here we get to learn learn more on the features of escel and how it can utilized for our advantage

By Mansi G

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May 30, 2020

This course is the easiest to learn Excel skills for a beginner. The right concepts with the perfect explanation. I'm ready to conquer the 3 remaining courses in this specialization.