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About the Course

The use of Excel is widespread in the industry. It is a very powerful data analysis tool and almost all big and small businesses use Excel in their day to day functioning. This is an introductory course in the use of Excel and is designed to give you a working knowledge of Excel with the aim of getting to use it for more advance topics in Business Statistics later. The course is designed keeping in mind two kinds of learners - those who have very little functional knowledge of Excel and those who use Excel regularly but at a peripheral level and wish to enhance their skills. The course takes you from basic operations such as reading data into excel using various data formats, organizing and manipulating data, to some of the more advanced functionality of Excel. All along, Excel functionality is introduced using easy to understand examples which are demonstrated in a way that learners can become comfortable in understanding and applying them. To successfully complete course assignments, students must have access to a Windows version of Microsoft Excel 2010 or later. ________________________________________ WEEK 1 Module 1: Introduction to Spreadsheets In this module, you will be introduced to the use of Excel spreadsheets and various basic data functions of Excel. Topics covered include: • Reading data into Excel using various formats • Basic functions in Excel, arithmetic as well as various logical functions • Formatting rows and columns • Using formulas in Excel and their copy and paste using absolute and relative referencing ________________________________________ WEEK 2 Module 2: Spreadsheet Functions to Organize Data This module introduces various Excel functions to organize and query data. Learners are introduced to the IF, nested IF, VLOOKUP and the HLOOKUP functions of Excel. Topics covered include: • IF and the nested IF functions • VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP • The RANDBETWEEN function ________________________________________ WEEK 3 Module 3: Introduction to Filtering, Pivot Tables, and Charts This module introduces various data filtering capabilities of Excel. You’ll learn how to set filters in data to selectively access data. A very powerful data summarizing tool, the Pivot Table, is also explained and we begin to introduce the charting feature of Excel. Topics covered include: • VLOOKUP across worksheets • Data filtering in Excel • Use of Pivot tables with categorical as well as numerical data • Introduction to the charting capability of Excel ________________________________________ WEEK 4 Module 4: Advanced Graphing and Charting This module explores various advanced graphing and charting techniques available in Excel. Starting with various line, bar and pie charts we introduce pivot charts, scatter plots and histograms. You will get to understand these various charts and get to build them on your own. Topics covered include • Line, Bar and Pie charts • Pivot charts • Scatter plots • Histograms...

Top reviews

KN

Jan 28, 2021

Dr Sharad has made Excel Learning very concise and easily understandable. The advanced concepts are easily understood by even beginners. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn at Rice University.

AM

Jun 2, 2020

Everything was explained in detail, even the smallest bits we don't pay attention to. Beautifully designed course, I would recommend it to anyone looking to get started with excel and data analytics.

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By Shlok S A

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Apr 12, 2020

A little too easy even for beginners

By Anshul J

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Mar 12, 2018

Very easy and to the point content .

By Joshua A

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Nov 10, 2021

Great introductory lessons in Excel

By Cianda T

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Jan 5, 2021

Great tutorials but a bit outdated.

By MAYUR U

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Oct 2, 2020

Its very good course for beginners.

By VEMPATI S V

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May 31, 2020

Very helpful and excellent teaching

By Evelyn E

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Nov 26, 2018

Very informative and easy to follow

By Kripali A

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Jul 10, 2017

Nice for clarity of basic concepts.

By sahil r

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Apr 1, 2017

nice course with a good instructor.

By saksham k

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Nov 2, 2022

this course is best for beginners.

By Santosh K

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Aug 18, 2021

SUMIFS and COUNTIFS were not there

By Yuri G

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Nov 19, 2020

Can be a little bit more advanced.

By Abhishek R

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Jul 5, 2020

Very nice course, very informative

By Nur A E B N A

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Jun 8, 2020

this course is fun yet challenging

By Parth S

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Dec 23, 2019

It should have more advance option

By Cesar P

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Sep 2, 2019

Great, but it needs more exercises

By Kavitha N P

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Jul 28, 2021

Helpful to learn many new things.

By Shubham G

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Sep 27, 2017

A very good course for beginners.

By Jibin J

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Oct 24, 2020

Excellent course and very useful

By Sidharth S

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Jun 26, 2020

Very good and interactive course

By Aditya N

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Sep 6, 2021

Understood the concepts easily

By YULIANA P Z

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Aug 8, 2020

It was an useful course. Thanks

By Mahi A

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Jun 29, 2020

Nice and well-organised course.

By Phani H S

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Jul 23, 2017

UNDERSTANDABLE AND COMPETITIVE.

By Jing

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Apr 18, 2017

Well Organized. Easy to learn.