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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

HV

Jun 10, 2020

This course is really exceptional .Everything the mentor explained is very detailed and precise.I learned a lot from this course and lookingForward to series next course.ThIs course Is really exceptI

TF

Feb 24, 2021

This is the best course for excel beginners. Both instructors are very nice. Course is focused on essential topics and will make you strong in excel for elementary topics. Recommended for beginners.

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By Juhayer M

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Jun 15, 2020

This was very helpful. I learned a lot of things. Thank you. The tutors were awesome too.

By LI H N

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Jun 7, 2020

clear instructions and each short video only perform one kind of function, easy to follow

By Ronaldo F N C

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May 31, 2020

Very interesting and complete, good methodology, i learned a lot from this course, thanks

By Anup K

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May 31, 2020

Awesome course building fundamentals and bringing the right skills into the person by reg

By P S

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May 22, 2020

If anyone interested to do excel mean this one of the very good option to learn, promise.

By sohail w

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May 12, 2020

This was a wonderful course ,full of learning and practice.I highly recommend this course

By Yaiza D S

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May 11, 2020

Great course! It was very helpful to learn the all the essentials to get started on Excel

By Aliyu S

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May 10, 2020

It was very engaging all the way. A nice way for self learning and knowledge acquisition.

By Ali A R

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Apr 13, 2020

Thank you for your lessons, the quizzes were interactive. everything was cool and useful.

By Ilkana G

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Mar 14, 2020

This course is really amazing.I learned basic part of excel with practice and funny ways.

By Oscar Z

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Feb 28, 2020

Enseña gradualmente cómo utilizar Excel. Las pruebas son bastante exigentes. Recomendable

By Nikhil K

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Feb 7, 2020

Amazing teachers from Macquarie University. Looking forward to learning other courses too

By Monika S

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Dec 7, 2019

It is a perfect course for beginners to learn how to deal with excel. Thank you coursera.

By Shubham T

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Aug 28, 2019

It is an Amazing user-friendly course with basics to deal with recommended for beginners.

By Tarik S

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May 23, 2019

Very useful course, the basics skills are mandatory to tacle the normal activity in excel

By Miriam S

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Apr 12, 2019

Great course for beginners! Just some slightly issues with more recent versions of excel.

By NCHOUNGOU M A A Y

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Oct 23, 2018

Un cours extraordinairement expliqué. Je suis devenu amoureux d'Excel. Thanks Instructors

By Vaishnavi R

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Sep 3, 2018

the course is very interesting with quizes and ninja tips after every video. very useful!

By Shyam S

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Jan 25, 2018

Challenges were pretty good. Liked the course, will be joining the Intermediate course-1.

By Mari D

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Aug 31, 2025

It's nice if you forget something you can go back and rewatch videos and practice again.

By aracely m

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Jun 13, 2025

Learned so much, and so easy to follow. Very helpful that we can finish on our own pace.

By Alnavi A

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Nov 26, 2023

After I took this course, I can know the utilisation of excel that I didn't know before.

By Ravi U C

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Aug 27, 2023

Good for Business purposes, Business Meeting review Presentation . very well explained .

By Jorge V

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Jul 13, 2023

Nice to have so many practical assigments. You can only pass if you are really learning.

By Stef E B

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Mar 28, 2023

I learned quite a number of new things even though I've been using Excel for many years.