Excel Formulas for Absolute Beginners (Udemy.com)
Learn MS Excel formulas in a fun and interesting way by solving puzzles and playing games!
Created by: Mumshad Mannambeth
Last updated April 2018
What you will learn
- Use Excel Formulas in spreadsheets
- Use cell references in Excel - Relative, Absolute, Cross sheet referencing
- Understand how formulas in Excel can make your day to day job easy!
How it compares
Against the other 355 rated Udemy courses in Excel on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 13% of them
- Reviews1,234#153 of 356 by number of reviews
- Length0.5 hoursshorter than 99% of them
- Last updatedApril 2018earlier than 83% of them
Course Description
In this course we’ll be learning about excel formulas and have a lot of fun while we are at it.
This course is for Beginners who are just starting with Excel formulas and hopefully, by the end of course gain enough knowledge to be able to use formulas in their day-to-day activities. We will start with Cell References, and then move on to different types of formulas, functions such as Logical functions, text Functions and Lookup functions. All the topics have associated Excel Workbook resources containing sample problems to solve, puzzles, games and real-world practice questions to practice on.
To conclude, work on a mini-project to build a dashboard for an imaginary software development firm.
Happy Learning!
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
1,234 Reviews
Mumshad Mannambeth
Mumshad is an IT Solutions Architect and specializes in Cloud Native Computing, Automation and DevOps. He is the founder of KodeKloud - a hands-on learning platform and a Certified Kubernetes Training Partner. He is passionate about learning new technology and teaching. He believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing and in a fun way. Mumshad has authored multiple courses on DevOps, Cloud and Automation technologies. His courses focus on providing students with an interactive and hands-on experience in learning new technology that makes learning really interesting.
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Reviews
By William Totman on 3/18/2024
Pros: I wish I had this introduction 20 years ago. I am not a heavy user of Excel, but it would have been very helpful to know the terminology and caveats of these features. Cons: The quizzes and in-spreadsheet exercises do not reveal the formula being tested for. This is particularly a problem when the formula is complex. However, it is >90% confined to the final "Mini Project" spreadsheet.
By Puvaneswary A/P N.Kathiravan on 2/18/2022
Wow, I'm having a great time learning this lecture because it's so exciting and keeps me entertained throughout. It is well worth enrolling in this lecture because it allows us to fill our leisure time with knowledge while also having fun and satisfaction.
By Karina on 3/5/2021
This is the first Excel tutorial that I've seen that has games and is so INTERACTIVE. I love it and I'm excited to keep going!
By Scott M on 2/23/2021
Average beginner 'free' course, good instructor. Some lessons need to be longer than 1-3 minutes. Another thing, the resource module numbers do not match up with the corresponding lesson numbers, and could be confusing for actual beginners. Overall a fine course to get someone started.
By Matthew Groves on 7/11/2019
The topics covered and the information given is extremely useful, however when talking through things it would have been nice to have a excel visual of what was being discussed. Also the sample spreadsheets aren't working which is frustrating when you are only learning
By Mina Stanovich on 6/29/2018
I love the tests after each section. They are much more creative and well thought out. Really enjoying this class and having fun.
By Monika Korczak on 1/6/2018
This is what teachers in schools should do ... only basic functions but probably the most commonly used ones. Thank you, it was great to listen to.
By Stephanie D Jones on 6/22/2017
This was great practice. The presentation was engaging and helped me to learn a lot. One thing I would add is a bit more detail in the instruction on some of the lessons. Some of them used functions that were never mentioned in the brief video intro.
By Nathan Sasek on 6/15/2017
The course overall is informative about Excel functions and formulas. The hands on exercises help reinforce what you learned during lecture. The pass fail indicators for the exercises and mini project did not work for me. Also some tasks are based on date and do not work without being able to change the date but you can't because the spreadsheets are in read only. If some of these issues were corrected I would give a higher rating.
By Jamal B on 5/16/2017
If you are looking for basic formula and function info with very good exercises, then this course is yours! The exercises don't support other languages at this moment except English. So if you have for example Dutch excel, you'll need to find the formula names for yourself. But Mumshad is working on it! Thank you for the course! ;-)
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