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Excel Skills for Business: Essentials

This Coursera course focuses on business applications of Excel features and functions. It is designed as a six-week curriculum that includes 18 hours of instruction and practical skills development. That amounts to devoting an average of 3 hours each week to the course perfect for busy professionals.

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432 reviews

Created by: Dr Yvonne Breyer

Produced in 2017

What you will learn

The Core of Excel: 5 hours of lessons on Excel essentials, ranging from editing cells to utilizing templates.
Calculations: 4 hours of instruction on analytical features in excel, including built-in formulas, customizing formulas and cell references.
Formatting: 3 hours of learning myriad techniques to format cells and sheets to create unique presentations.
Data Management: 3 hours of practice in managing data. Includes filtering, managing rows and columns and find and replace feature.

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Course Description

In this first course of the specialization Excel Skills for Business you will learn the Essentials of Microsoft Excel. Within six weeks, you will learn 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. We have brought together a great teaching team that will be with you every step of the way. A broad range of practice quizzes and challenges will provide great opportunities to build up your skillset. Work through each new challenge with our team and in no time you will surprise yourself with how far you have come. 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.

Beginner Level

Time: 4h

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- Course side-steps analytical functions that are unlikely to be pertinent to business applications. The streamlined approach saves time and frustration.
- Course is designed for beginners, not advanced computer users.
- Course is designed around a practical approach to learning. You will learn by doing in these lessons.
- Course is lacking in identifying and accounting for variations in Mac versions of the software. It's very Windows-focused.
- Entire curriculum is designed with US versions of the software. International users may struggle with discrepancies.
- Streamlined focus can make the course feel basic. There are powerful topics not covered.

Instructor Details

Dr Yvonne Breyer

5.0 Rating
432 Reviews

Dr Yvonne Breyer is an award-winning academic with expertise in student success, online learning and digital transformation in the higher education sector. Yvonne has led several award-winning strategic initiatives with national and international reach. Most recently, she led the 'Excel Skills for Business' specialisation, which received the Coursera Outstanding Educator Award for Student Transformation on the back of exceptional learner feedback, global reach and impact. Yvonne leads the Global MBA Design and Experience team which includes senior learning designers, media producers and student experience designers, to deliver an innovative and transformative learner experience for Global MBA students. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics (Macquarie University), a Master of Arts (University of Essen, Germany) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, Leadership and Management (Macquarie University).

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By Pavel G on 6-Nov-19

Хороший курс. Может быть местами чуть занудный, но пятерка - честная.

By Evteev D A on 25-Oct-19

This is my favorite course of all that I took at Coursera. Very convenient presentation of the material, especially for people who are not easily given work in software. Despite the fact that this is the first part of four in this specialization, it gives a lot of skills to carry out many office projects. I already ordered the rest. Thank you, you inspired me to start a career in a new direction.

By Robert B on 29-Aug-19

The course was defiantly more than I expected. It not only strengthened what I did know about Excel but it showed me several options that I was not using or haven't found. I would highly recommend it.

By GANGIREDDY K K R on 22-Aug-19

This course is simply awesome. If you really want to learn something worthy, then this course is for you. It has no answers anywhere to copy, so we have to work hard on it and practice the material.

By Daniel P on 3-Aug-19

Fairly good, but still has some weak points as follows: file archive are inconsistent (1st two weeks has sub-folders for OSX and PC) but from third sub-folder is only for OSX and rest are in root of archive, which denotes a lack of attention to details.all files to be downloaded are scattered through archive and additional multiple files to download after (feels inconsistent)formatting instructions are US centrist and totally ignores other country settings (in Europe for example we use comma as decimal separator and dot for thousand separator, therefore provided within question phrase format is being interpreted by Excel as thousand separator w/o decimal, whereas if US setting would be present no thousand separator and 2 decimals is given), so clearer international safe instructions should be includedOther than this was quite good coverage of basic to medium functionalities.

By Mouneshwari R on 29-Jun-19

It's really a good learning experience with hand on practice section

By Efren M on 28-Jun-19

It is hard to think that there is a better teacher that Dr. Breyer, she is a natural born teacher and I am impressed by her loving and articulate style of instruction. She is also very cute :)

By Parth P on 28-Jun-19

The course was excellent and taught a lot of basic excel tools.

By Abhipriya on 28-Jun-19

Very helpful course

By Maëlanne B on 28-Jun-19

Great first course, thanks a lot for such a great preparation work ! It's interactive, clear, user-friendly and fun. I have learnt a lot, even though I am not a beginner with Excel. I'm looking forward to following the 3 other courses.

By Nishant K S on 27-Jun-19