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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Excel Skills for Business: Essentials by Macquarie University

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    About the Course

    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 ...
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    KS

    Jun 30, 2020

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    This is an amazing course for learners. I am having a lot of fun completing this course from the starting point. It is very much enjoyable and the way the course teachers deliver every lecture superb.

    AC

    Dec 11, 2022

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    Great excel fundamentals for beginners and those struggling to adapt. I can relate to the course and the situation!Great course for somebody who hasn't touched excel in 10 years and needs a refresher!

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    By Jazeela a

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    Mar 29, 2021

    I'm very happy to be able to complete this course. It is an added advantage to my career . The course is well presented and learner friendly with good notes, videos, practice tests, quizzes, and not to mention the note making section . Thank you Coursera and Macquarie University for providing this course! I would highly recommend this course for those wanted to learn the basics of excel.

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    By Chloe J

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    Jan 28, 2021

    This course is thorough and clear. I quickly started learning new functions of excel which I was using in day to day work, even though my job doesn't require highly specific excel capabilities. So I would recommend this course to any people who use excel, even if they think they only need to know the basics. This course was a great introduction to the most useful and quick tools in excel.

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    By AYMEN W

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    Jul 12, 2020

    I am a french Excel user for more than 20 years. Tips and informations I learned from this "BASIC" course are really awsome and very useful very useful even for experienced Excel users.

    It was an occasion for me to refresh my English !

    I highly recommend this course for those who want to learn Excel professionally and methodically. Teachers are also very educational. Big thanks for them.

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    By Sabbir B

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    May 27, 2020

    As a self-taught excel user I have known some basic, intermediate, and advanced excel functions. But, I am still stuck sometimes while performing my tasks for some basic functions and tricks, I got to learn all the basic necessities of excel in this course. I highly recommend everyone take this course to uplift their basic excel skill as we ignore these skills but they are very important.

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    By Randall G

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    Mar 11, 2018

    Well structured course with great explanations and tips for getting the most out of Excel. Plenty of examples and case studies are provided for you to practice on and understand the various features of Excel. I would recommend this course to everyone, including those people who are self taught in Excel and want to polish their skills. Excel is a critical skill to have in almost every job

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    By David K

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    Nov 21, 2022

    Thank you Coursera,thank you Vicky and Prasham,thank you Macquarie University for such a wonderful opportunity,Thank you all.

    I overjoyed in studying under your mentor-ship for many reasons.To learn,to explore,to discover,to develop and to acquire the excel analytical skills needed in this 21st century.I thank you and looking forward to learn more and to practice.

    You are always the best!

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    By Srujan I

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    May 26, 2022

    I found this course very helpful and easy to learn. The contents of the program are very well structured for any beginner to learn. The difficulty level is such that it will not scare a newbie. The videos are very effective in fostering comprehension. Workbook exercises like assessment and challenge are great for practice and cementing the learning. Overall a very satisfactory experince.

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    By JM C

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    Nov 25, 2021

    I've already taken basic excel courses from other site and free tutorial on Youtube. I use Excel everyday at work and I thought I already know all the basics and I feel like I should be taking the intermediate level but I was wrong . This course taught me a lot not discussed from other online courses I've taken. A must have "course" for those who want to elevate their excel level skills.

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    By Sarvesh M

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    Oct 27, 2020

    I loved this course. This course was very interesting. I learned a lot of new skills and a lot of new concepts from this course. I am sure that I am going to take the next part of this course in a few weeks. I will complete this entire specialization so that my excel skills will be really inevitable. Thanks a lot to Maquarie University, Instructors and Coursera for providing this course.

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    By Mario C

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    Oct 2, 2020

    Despite already being quite familiar with Excel and having worked with it previously, I found this course to be really helpful. It introduced me to some basic tools that I had never used. In addition to that, it taught me some new concepts about tools which I was already familiar with. The material included is quite sufficient to have a confident grasp of Excel's most essential features.

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    By AMOL G

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    May 19, 2020

    about this i would have really apprecited if you had kept some revision session at the end of week 6 as its a weekly course so as to just brush up the knowledge of week 1 before giving the finall assesement paper one would have been eased to attend the exam sooner.

    its really good course i am its really about practice and details which we should pay more attention.

    thanks for the course.

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    By Gobinda C S

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    May 1, 2020

    Thank you so much for such a beautiful course. The course structure is pretty much well planned and the course instructors are too good. Although I had the basic working knowledge of MS Excel, this course gave me proper structured knowledge of using the tools. I will be doing other courses soon. Stay safe, Stay Healthy.

    Regards

    Gobinda Chandra Sahu

    Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai

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    By Victoria C

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    Jan 25, 2021

    It is a great course that provides the necessary tools to understand and navigate easily through excel; everything is explained really well and also has activities to reinforce the learned content. Some details are different in Mac or newer versions, but they give a lot of useful information so that both Windows and iOS users can complete the course harmoniously and learn excel skills!

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    By Md. H R

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    Jun 20, 2020

    In one word, Fabulous. I have learned a lot from this course and my confidence is increasing. It's an effective introduction for the beginners of Microsoft excel. Most importantly I have enjoyed this course a lot. The lectures and practice challenges are pretty interesting. Moreover, it compels you to learn. So, why late! Start learning and you know, "Practice makes permanent." Cheers!

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    By Saee K

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    Jun 6, 2020

    Yes, This course is very useful to all, especially for commerce students. Teaching style is excellent with simple English. Many practice workbooks are provided to practice and to play with excel. Most amazing part that I learned is to run excel without using mouse. That is awesome!!! .. I highly recommend to all of you to join this course for developing essential basic skills of excel.

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    By William M

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    May 1, 2020

    I consider myself an intermediate-expert level Excel user, using it extensively for 10 years. This course showed me tips and tricks that would have saved me a lot of time over the years. I highly recommend this course to any Excel users - beginners to experts. All of the lessons and workbooks are very easy to follow and you get to do some real-world type graphing, calculations, etc.

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    By Nabeel M

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    Oct 30, 2018

    I am very happy and feel proud after completing this course. I got valuable skills. This course will be beneficial for me to get more opportunities. I really appreciate Macquarie University to make such great content of this course and also thanks to Coursera to provide the access to this great course. I will suggest this course to my friends and relatives.

    Overall Excellent*****

    Thanks.

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    By Joni H

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    Jun 23, 2018

    I dreaded taking an Excel course because some videos that I tried before were too dull to continue. This course was much different. I had fun learning from Prashan and Nicky! Their videos were fun, but straightforward and encouraging. The short quizzes and videos kept me motivated. I now can see the value in Excel after learning how useful it can be through this course. This was great!

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    By Giuseppe V

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    May 5, 2024

    Knowing in depth the functionalities of MS Excel, through this course, has contributed to improving productivity and effectiveness in my work as a Data Analyst To Nicky, Prashan and everyone who has contributed to this course: thank you for your excellent work...! Awesome...! Thanks also to Macquairie University for these fantastic opportunities that help us improve as professionals

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    By Manuel G

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    Oct 8, 2020

    Very good ! I learn all the essential skills to manage my data. I also learn a very useful things such as, how to detect duplicates, all the essential shortcuts, understand the use of page layout view and page break view that I never used, and an easy consistent way to plot my data into impactful clean simple charts. This will certainly help me being more professional in using Excel.

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    By Vipul J

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    May 3, 2020

    Even though i have intermediate knowledge of excel, this course still have various this which i didn't know or i had never used like they showed us. Really impressed by how the instructor explain each thing step by step and also how the challenges are made and literally have steps which guide us through out the challenges and the shortcuts provided at the end of each week are amazing.

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    By Deleted A

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    Nov 24, 2019

    I am giving 5 STAR to this course because in this course, both the tutors Prashan Sir and Nikky ma'am taught the Essential Skills For Operating Excel in very easy way and most effective manner. I am glad by getting these tutors. I am really very happy after completing the course. Thank you so much Coursera for providing us the best tutors like Prashan Sir and Nikky ma'am. Thank you.

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    By Fabián Q L

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    Apr 3, 2020

    Excelente curso para iniciar y repasar muchos conceptos básicos sobre este programa, felicito a sus creadores y sería excelente si tuviera traducción al español para todos los hispanos que no manejan mucho el ingles. Mil gracias por ese esfuerzo tan grane que hace la universidad de MACQUARIE para dar este contenido y a COURSERA por permitir el acceso y participación en este curso.

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    By kamalakannan

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    Jun 27, 2020

    I am very happy to earn this certificate for MS Excel from Macquarie University. This is great fundamental course for MS Excel , which deals with basic concepts of Excel. I will definitely recommend this course to my colleagues and my juniors who want to start a career as data analyst. I am going to enroll in Excel Intermediate I tomorrow. Thanks a lot to Nicky and her colleague.

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    By Ajune K

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    Apr 9, 2020

    Overall, a very interesting course. Keeps you enagaged throughout. Even tho I was familiar with the basics of Excel before, this course still had some very useful information which I didn't know.

    I am looking forward to the Second Course which i'll start in this week also. Thank You!!

    Only Con: One has to take the whole final quiz again, even tho, if he gets only 1 question wrong.

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