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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 Kim S

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Mar 22, 2018

This was an excellent course to take. This is a good refresher and training.

By Ugo j

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Jan 7, 2018

this course was fantastic. I learned a lot and everything was very well done

By Phillip E

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Oct 24, 2017

Great review on basic Excel tools and also goes into Pivot Tables and charts

By Ethan O B

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Sep 19, 2017

A very good course; well structured and laid out and I learned a lot from it

By Wenxuan L

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Sep 11, 2017

I think this is a very helpful course to guide me in improving Excel skills.

By Anand P

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Mar 12, 2025

Good to start with. Very basic and it will touch initial required command.

By Boris H

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Nov 12, 2020

this course was very helpful,

but improve it by adding more excel functions

By Prayash K

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Jul 18, 2020

Awesome content with lot of workout to get hands dirty. Thank you Coursera.

By Srdana P

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Jun 28, 2020

Great course delivery and straight to the point. Easy to follow. Thank you!

By Indraneel M

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Jun 6, 2020

Nice Course but felt little longer videos with more depth could been better

By Krishna

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Jun 28, 2017

It's a great course for anyone who plan to learn about Excel in Data field!

By Ashutosh D

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Oct 9, 2016

Very useful if you just have a little idea about excel must do this course.

By Nneji C

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Nov 20, 2022

I am so happy with this course and I want to appreciate coursera for this.

By Luis A G A

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Mar 17, 2021

Muy bueno, una vista a varias funciones importantes en el manejo de excel.

By Kishore K

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Jan 16, 2021

Such a knowledgeable course. I leant much more knowledge from this course.

By Nguyen T T

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Nov 23, 2020

Awesome course with so many techniques on Excel i have never learnt before

By Amy P

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Nov 18, 2020

Really great start to the specialization - I have learned so much already!

By Aliona T

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Aug 23, 2020

It was interesting and hopefully useful experience - I am grateful for it.

By Luanna R

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May 26, 2020

It was very informative and I gain a lot of practice and knowledge from it

By Mohammed T C

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May 16, 2020

Excellent Course with 100% practical based learning. Learned a lot. Thanks

By CHANAKARN S

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Apr 22, 2020

Very helpful! almost completely basic function for data analysis by excel.

By David B

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Jan 29, 2019

Good course for learning and practicing vlookup, pivot tables, and charts.

By Shreya G

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Jan 17, 2019

It was a very well explained course, amazing learning experience. Thankyou

By Aishwarya K M

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May 2, 2017

Loved the course, it is very much interactive and informative. Keep it up!