Excel Skills for Business
Macquarie University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Assoc Prof Prashan S. M. Karunaratne, Nicky Bull, Professor Yvonne Breyer
BusinessData Science
About the course
Offered by Macquarie University. Learn Excel Skills for Business. Master Excel to add a highly valuable asset to your employability portfolio. Enroll for free.
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (98 votes, 2.0★).
“This course hasn't been great so far for a Mac user. I constantly have to stop and double check if this course actually mentioned the right short cuts (the UI is on Windows, they mention Mac shortcuts). For example, in Lesson one I tried to find Flash Fill for ages - turns out, there's no Flash Fill available on Mac. Very poor for a course. You should offer to separate ones - one for Windows, one for Mac. Same in final exam in Lesson one: I answered correctly for Mac which was a wrong answer for Windows.”
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