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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

DN

Feb 1, 2023

The explanations in this course were concise and easily understood. The course materials are very helpful with helping you get some practice in and furthering your understanding of the course content.

RB

Aug 28, 2019

The course was defiantly more than I expected. It not only strengthened what I did know about Excel but it showed me several options that I was not using or haven't found. I would highly recommend it.

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By Juan A M O

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Jul 30, 2020

It is very good course. I really improved my performance by learning very little but import details.

By Sameed B

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Jul 21, 2020

Best course I've done till yet on coursera, instructors are great who give pure practical knowledge.

By Vivek B

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Jul 3, 2020

It is always a great experience to learn on Coursera where world class faculty is there to teach us.

By Darlene S

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Jun 28, 2020

I really enjoyed this course. It was well presented and very easy to follow. I Greatly recommend it.

By Bhuwan S

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Jun 25, 2020

Amazing experience of doing online segment by COURSERA.

Thanks Team of MacQuarie University, Sydney.

By Yuvraj.s

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May 20, 2020

This Excel course was very good I have learnt more of Excel skills, it will more useful to my career

By Adit K A

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May 4, 2020

The Course really helped with polishing previously known techniques and helped in learning new ones.

By Rishi V S R

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May 4, 2020

I found this course very useful though we are used to excel I learner many new methods and shortcuts

By PRATIK D

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Mar 29, 2020

Very well designed course. This course made me confident in using various tools in excel. Thankyou!!

By Silvia p

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Mar 16, 2020

Very easy to follow yet challenging course. Something new to be learned for all. Great foundation bu

By Usama Z

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Feb 7, 2020

Well-Designed, Good Practice Exercises and Excellent course to understand the fundamentals of Excel.

By Josef A

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Oct 15, 2019

I thought I know everything it seems like I only knew 20%, Anyway, now I sure am on the right track!

By Harshvardhan S

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Jul 28, 2019

I have learned a lot. this courses is very important if you want to excel in your professional work.

By Abdulhamid I

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Jul 27, 2019

Very interresting information. The way of teaching is very clear, nice and easy.

Thank you very much.

By Keith R

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Jul 26, 2019

The course was exactly what I needed. The concepts taught where applicable to my role has a manager.

By Mohanad A

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Feb 17, 2019

Great introductory course, I like the presentation of materials and the small quiz after each video.

By EVANDRO D D S

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Feb 13, 2019

The explanations on the videos are very clear and the topics boarded are so useful in the workplace.

By David D

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Oct 19, 2018

I've been using excel for over 10 years and still learned many new tricks and tips from this course.

By Katy L

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Oct 14, 2018

Excellent class! Even though I have used Excel for quite some time, I still learned many new skills.

By Alexandra S S d S A d M I

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Oct 12, 2018

It was exceptional had the opportunity to embrace this challenge and get more comfortable with Excel

By samrudhi k

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Aug 8, 2025

It was very helpful and well-structured and solving practice set boost my confidence in using excel

By Mustajab h

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Jan 12, 2024

I found this very helpful and insightful . The way you explain everything is easily understandable.

By Amrin F

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Jul 19, 2023

My Name is not reflecting in my certificate. kindly do the needful please. the subject was so good.

By Aleksandra G

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Mar 7, 2023

Great intro course, even for people familiar with excel - I learned a lot of useful tips and tricks

By Tanvesh A

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Jan 8, 2023

Its a very best course and it helped me a lot to do the calculations in it and also work with excel