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The use of Excel is widespread in the industry. It is a very powerful data analysis tool and almost all big and small businesses use Excel in their day to day functioning. This is an introductory course in the use of Excel and is designed to give you a working knowledge of Excel with the aim of getting to use it for more advance topics in Business Statistics later. The course is designed keeping in mind two kinds of learners - those who have very little functional knowledge of Excel and those who use Excel regularly but at a peripheral level and wish to enhance their skills. The course takes you from basic operations such as reading data into excel using various data formats, organizing and manipulating data, to some of the more advanced functionality of Excel. All along, Excel functionality is introduced using easy to understand examples which are demonstrated in a way that learners can become comfortable in understanding and applying them. To successfully complete course assignments, students must have access to a Windows version of Microsoft Excel 2010 or later. ________________________________________ WEEK 1 Module 1: Introduction to Spreadsheets In this module, you will be introduced to the use of Excel spreadsheets and various basic data functions of Excel. Topics covered include: • Reading data into Excel using various formats • Basic functions in Excel, arithmetic as well as various logical functions • Formatting rows and columns • Using formulas in Excel and their copy and paste using absolute and relative referencing ________________________________________ WEEK 2 Module 2: Spreadsheet Functions to Organize Data This module introduces various Excel functions to organize and query data. Learners are introduced to the IF, nested IF, VLOOKUP and the HLOOKUP functions of Excel. Topics covered include: • IF and the nested IF functions • VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP • The RANDBETWEEN function ________________________________________ WEEK 3 Module 3: Introduction to Filtering, Pivot Tables, and Charts This module introduces various data filtering capabilities of Excel. You’ll learn how to set filters in data to selectively access data. A very powerful data summarizing tool, the Pivot Table, is also explained and we begin to introduce the charting feature of Excel. Topics covered include: • VLOOKUP across worksheets • Data filtering in Excel • Use of Pivot tables with categorical as well as numerical data • Introduction to the charting capability of Excel ________________________________________ WEEK 4 Module 4: Advanced Graphing and Charting This module explores various advanced graphing and charting techniques available in Excel. Starting with various line, bar and pie charts we introduce pivot charts, scatter plots and histograms. You will get to understand these various charts and get to build them on your own. Topics covered include • Line, Bar and Pie charts • Pivot charts • Scatter plots • Histograms...

Top reviews

HJ

Oct 18, 2018

The course is good . It gives emmense knowldege about how to analyse a data using powerful convinient and fast excel tools. Though its a basic course but good for those whose excel is not that strong.

JM

Apr 20, 2022

Good , but improvements can be made on alternative ways to implement the same end result. The result is your questions sometimes are one sided and there is more than 1 way to get the same end result.

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May 10, 2018

Helpful Learning

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Mar 13, 2018

Excellent Course

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Feb 22, 2018

I learned a lot.

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Dec 4, 2017

Excellent course

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Nov 5, 2017

Excellent Course

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Oct 26, 2017

Excellent course

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Jul 29, 2017

its very usefull

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Jul 20, 2017

excellent course

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May 22, 2017

Excellent course

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Mar 6, 2017

Very good course

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Apr 11, 2022

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Feb 17, 2021

Best instructor

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Sep 21, 2020

nicely arranged

By Ndaindila H

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Jul 28, 2020

Well organised!

By Arvind Y

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May 9, 2020

Good Experience

By Shreenath A

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Apr 21, 2020

Well explained.

By Amala J .

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Apr 20, 2020

SHORT AND CLEAR

By venkatesh d

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Apr 6, 2019

Nice Course !!!

By Matthew H

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Feb 3, 2019

Great course!!!

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Dec 25, 2018

Amazing Course!

By Ashutosh P

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Jul 18, 2018

VERY INSIGHTFUL

By 陈啸（Shawn C

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Aug 30, 2017

easy but useful