This specialization is completely perfect for anyone who wants to develop one of the most fundamental digital skills nowadays. Spreadsheet software remains one of the most omnipresent pieces of software utilized in workplaces worldwide. By learning how to proficiently use this software, you can add an esteemed advantage to your portfolio. Millions of job advertisements requiring Excel skills are posted every day in the United States alone. Research by Burning Glass Technologies and Capital One reveals that owning digital skills enables you to have higher income as well as better job opportunities. Recently, when digital skills requiring occupations are becoming more and more viral than non-digital ones, completing this specialization will help you gain major assets in comparison with others.

Participating in this specialization, you will gain advanced Excel Skills for Business.  Learners can  design complicated spreadsheets, including professional dashboards, and perform complex calculations using advanced Excel features and methods by completing the four courses in this specialization.Managing large datasets skillfully, extracting significant information from datasets, present data are the skills you will definitely acquire after finishing the specialization. Moreover, joining these courses also enables you to master essential skills to validate data and block errors in spreadsheets, generate automation, help make decisions and create spreadsheets assisting forecast and model data by applying advanced formulas and conditional logic.

About the content of this specialization: 

• Manipulating, formatting data, entering and learn to navigate the Excel user interface

• Learn to perform calculations on data by using functions and formulas

• Use features for choice automation as well as data lookups

• Summarize unprocessed data by creating charts and tables. Learn to analyze data and perform the result in an accessible way

• Validate data, discover and repair errors, Generate handy spreadsheets and navigation aids for large workbook

This specialization will instruct you about:

• Course 1: Excel Skills for Business: Essentials

• Course 2: Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate I

• Course 3: Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate II

• Course 4: Excel Skills for Business: Advanced

Skills you will gain after this specialization:

• Microsoft Excel

• Data validation

• Lookup tables

• Microsoft Excel VBA

• Microsoft Excel Marco

• Concatenation

• Pivot Table

• Graphs

• Spreadsheets

• Consolization

• Pivot Chart

Informations about this specialization:

• Time: Approximately 6 months to complete

• Lecture: 100% online

• Language:English (Subtitles: English, Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, Spanish, Hungarian)

• Instructors: Nicky Bull, A/Professor Yvonne Brayer, Dr Prashan S. M. Karunaratne 

• Best for: beginners