Excel Skills for Business: Essentials

Macquarie University via Coursera

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Free Online Course (Audit)
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English
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Paid Certificate Available
Duration & workload

1 day 2 hours 9 minutes
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On-Demand
Level

Beginner
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Arabic, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, English, Spanish, Hungarian, Thai, Indonesian, Kazakh, Hindi, Swedish, Korean, Greek, Chinese, Ukrainian, Japanese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Bengali, Pashto, Urdu, Azerbaijani, Farsi

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Excel Skills for Business

Overview

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.

Syllabus

Critical Core of Excel

In this module, you will learn about key foundational features of Excel: The Excel user interface, basic Excel terminology, how to operate essential navigational controls in Excel and how to perform basic data entry with Excel spreadsheets.

Performing calculations

The syntax of formulas is very important in Excel. In this module, you will get introduced to formulas and functions - learn how to write them, use them to perform calculations and understand the different cell references.

Formatting

Formatting helps to highlight key messages and make the data presentable. This module covers several formatting tools like font formatting, borders, alignment, number formatting, as well as the Excel styles and themes.

Working with Data

This module is all about working with data – and making it easy to work with. This week you will learn how you can manage your spreadsheets – find data with Filter and Sort, retrieve and change data using Find and Replace, and use Conditional Formatting to highlight specific data.

Printing

Sometimes you need to print your spreadsheets and this module will help you with that. Learn how you can optimise your spreadsheet for printing by managing margins, orientation, headers & footers, and more.

Charts

Charts are one of the most common ways to present data visually. This module walks you through creating and modifying charts in Excel.

Final Assessment

Taught by

Nicky Bull, Dr Prashan S. M. Karunaratne, and Professor Yvonne Breyer

Reviews

4.4 rating, based on 7 Class Central reviews

4.9 rating at Coursera based on 49197 ratings

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Yanyong B

This is a very well organized, excellently presented, top quality course. I highly recommend it. I already know some Excel and regularly use Power Query to query Oracle and SQL Server databases and generate pivot tables. Yet I learned many new thing…

This is a very well organized, excellently presented, top quality course. I highly recommend it. I already know some Excel and regularly use Power Query to query Oracle and SQL Server databases and generate pivot tables. Yet I learned many new things from auditing just week 1 of the course. I love the pace. There is a short video and then a graded quiz, then more videos and more quizzes. The quizzes sometimes covered material that was not in the videos. I suppose this is intentional to make the students learn to find things out themselves. I downloaded the exercises as Excel workbooks. The exercises are very well thought out. I thought the instructors would have Australian accent and I would have problem understanding them. I was wrong. They spoke perfect American English with no accent. Coursera would not grade the quiz at the end of the week unless I pay to upgrade, but this does not bother me because I can check my own work. I look forward to finishing the course and taking the other courses in the series.
Ewelina Chmielewska @ewelinach

Really great course starting point for your journey to becoming an Excel expert. I truly recommend it.
Steffi Yeh @cyehsteffi

embedded a storyline adds interest to the course.

The instructions are clear and include both Window version and Mac version.

Have practice, but quizzes are not free.
Lorraine Curtis

DIFFICULT This course does not have enough explanation and the questions are not simply a review of the material. There are too many questions for each section. It should be revised . If you need to learn Excel, this course will make you feel frus…

DIFFICULT

This course does not have enough explanation and the questions are not simply a review of the material. There are too many questions for each section. It should be revised . If you need to learn Excel, this course will make you feel frustrated. The class should go through less material and more practice of each component. It may need to have a part 1 and part 2, for true Beginners. Excel is a very complicated.

Also, since you cannot talk to mentor- teacher, it may be worth it to have some interactive component to explain why you cannot get the correct answers. This is hard to see through videos. You need to understand how to get the correct answers.

Additionally, skills are required to go between the workbook and problems. This is on a higher level unless you are very competent already in Excel. The final is too long and involved for 30 min.
Syeda Fowzia Nawrin Hoque

I enjoyed this course very much. And the contents,exercises,assessments all were easy to follow and understand through the instructors amazing guidelines. The basics of excel can be learnt easily from this course. I'm continuing the 2nd course of this excel specialization ant it's a bit hard but the things I'm learning are worth the hardwork.
Evelyn N

I already know basic Excel but I wanted to brush up on/practice my skills. This course was great for just that. It gave a great overview of the essential capabilities of Excel so I think it would be great for beginner's or those with some experience. Quizzes/Challenges were simple enough to compete yet thorough enough to actually make sure you know the concepts.
Anonymous

Wonderful course, easily explained on the videos and complemented with great quizzes.
Highly recommend! ;) Almost done with the course and have done all others