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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 JALAJA E

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Jul 2, 2020

Excellent explanation. The apprehension i have for excel is gone now.

By Rohan S

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Apr 18, 2020

wow! Just completed this amazing course. Hats off to Sharad Borle sir.

By Katy D

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Aug 21, 2019

Great course with professional professor. I love it. Thank you so much

By jorge l

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Jun 4, 2018

Good to review basic excel and one issues I did not use before. thanks

By Richa B

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Mar 19, 2017

Loved it! The pace is perfect and the instructions are easy to follow.

By Prashant

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Aug 16, 2021

Really a good learning experience , useful for day to day functioning

By 杜思宇

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Nov 30, 2019

It was amazing, the content is very clear and useful, I learnt a lot.

By Stefan B

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Aug 28, 2018

Excellent crash course of the most important Excel business functions

By Anežka Š

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Apr 30, 2018

I`m very content with this course. It is grate for beginners like me.

By Andrew S C N

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Jun 7, 2017

Very good :) Completed within a week. Pace is very good. Recommended.

By Prapimchun S

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Sep 25, 2023

A great course with materials that helped me learn through practice.

By Troy B

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Jan 22, 2021

Great Course. Challenging for someone not overly familiar with Excel

By AJ D

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Nov 10, 2020

The course was very easy to follow and understand. Very informative.

By Mounesh B

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Jul 28, 2020

Quiz material is really good. It gives good practise on excel skills

By Piyal s

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Jul 26, 2020

A well planned course to give the taste of excel based data analysis

By Sonam C (

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Jun 1, 2020

It was really helpful and i have learn a lot about excel. Thank you.

By Nandita S

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May 3, 2020

illustrated examples were very useful in understanding the concepts.

By Pablo A

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Jun 17, 2018

Great Course, It helps to refresh and get new knowledge about Excel.

By Scott D

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Mar 22, 2018

A very helpful refresher for the basic but necessary skills of Excel

By SHUBHAM D

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Oct 29, 2017

It was a great learning experience and I hope to learn further more.

By Shrenik

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Jul 4, 2017

Definitely a must course for those who wants to start learning Excel

By jamal i

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Mar 14, 2021

Thank you so much rice university for providing great excel course.

By Gizelle L D C

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Nov 28, 2020

The explanation of the lesson is very clear and easy to understand.

By HARSHIT S

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Sep 18, 2020

Excellent for beginners

Gave me a lot of confidence after completion

By MANDAR M

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Sep 1, 2020

Very Helpful course for beginners. The questions are well designed.