Excel Skills for Business: Essentials

Macquarie University via Coursera

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1 day 1 hour 49 minutes
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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

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In this first course of the specialization, 'Excel Skills for Business: Essentials', you will master the fundamental capabilities of Microsoft Excel. Over six weeks, you will gain the confidence to expertly navigate the Excel user interface, perform essential calculations using formulas and functions, professionally format spreadsheets, and create impactful data visualizations with charts and graphs. This course is designed for aspiring business professionals, students, and anyone looking to enhance their digital skills. Whether you are new to Excel or self-taught and aiming to solidify your foundational knowledge for greater efficiency and productivity, this program provides a robust starting point. You will solve a variety of practical business problems, applying learned Excel skills and techniques through downloadable workbooks and real-world data sets. To succeed in this course, no prior Excel experience is required. You will develop highly valuable spreadsheet software skills, positioning yourself for success in today's rapidly evolving digital job market.

Syllabus

Critical Core of Excel

In this foundational module, you will learn the essential features of Microsoft Excel. We'll cover the Excel user interface, basic Excel terminology, how to operate essential navigational controls, and perform basic data entry with Excel spreadsheets. By the end, you'll confidently navigate Excel and be ready to build your spreadsheet skills.

Excel Calculations

Understanding formula syntax is crucial for powerful data analysis in Microsoft Excel. In this module, you will be introduced to essential Excel formulas and functions. You'll learn how to write them, use them to perform calculations, and master different cell references. By the end, you'll confidently apply formulas to solve business problems.

Excel Formatting Essentials

You'll discover how formatting helps highlight key messages and make your data presentable in Microsoft Excel. This module covers essential formatting tools like font styles, borders, alignment, and number formatting, along with Excel's built-in styles and themes. By the end, you'll be able to apply professional formatting to any spreadsheet, making your data clear and impactful.

Excel Data Management

This module is all about working with data in Microsoft Excel and making it easy to manage. You will learn essential techniques to manage your spreadsheets, including how to efficiently find data with Filter and Sort, retrieve and change data using Find and Replace, and apply Conditional Formatting to highlight specific data. By the end, you'll confidently organize and manipulate your Excel data.

Printing Excel Spreadsheets

When you need to share your work, printing your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets professionally is key. This module will guide you through optimising your spreadsheets for printing by managing margins, orientation, headers & footers, and more. By the end, you'll confidently prepare your Excel files for perfect printouts every time.

Excel Data Charts

Charts are powerful tools for presenting data visually. In this module, you'll learn to create and modify various charts in Microsoft Excel, transforming raw data into clear, compelling insights. By the end, you'll confidently choose and customize chart types to effectively communicate your business data.

Final Assessment

Taught by

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

Reviews

4.5 rating, based on 8 Class Central reviews

4.9 rating at Coursera based on 50824 ratings

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Yanyong B
12

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.
Lorraine Curtis
5

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.
Ewelina Chmielewska @ewelinach
1

Really great course starting point for your journey to becoming an Excel expert. I truly recommend it.
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
Steffi Yeh @cyehsteffi
2

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.
Basil ABU_MUHFOUZ

I really enhance my knowledge of excel and current I can do more forumla and tables so it's a different before and after attending the course
Syeda Fowzia Nawrin Hoque
2

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
1

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.