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Build practical Excel skills using real datasets: Power Query, PivotTables, Dashboards, VBA automation, and forecasting

What you'll learn

✓ Clean and organize data with Excel
✓ Every section ends with a portfolio-ready project (relevant to finance, sales, HR, startups)
✓ Build 7 portfolio-ready Excel projects (budgets, sales dashboards, HR data cleaning, automation, financial models)
✓ Design executive dashboards using PivotTables, slicers, and conditional formatting.
✓ Learn business terms that is used in business like COGS (cost of goods and service) Margins, Attrition etc.

Requirements

● Microsoft Excel on Windows, (course uses Windows 11 and Excel from Microsoft 360) Mac version might lack some VBA Macro functionality
● A PDF reader to read supplement NOTES or PDF Browser plugin
● A desire to learn :-)

Description

Why this course works
• Every section ends with a portfolio-ready project (relevant to finance, sales, HR, startups).
• Employers love projects → Learners can show what they built.
• Progression → goes from simple formulas to advanced VBA + business modeling.
• Small Increments → Course is taught in small increments, each project with three practice sessions. Solutions are provided for each project.
By the end of this course, you will
• Build 7 portfolio-ready Excel projects (budgets, sales dashboards, HR data cleaning, automation, financial models).
• Learn the basics to automate workflows with VBA.
• Design executive dashboards using PivotTables, slicers, and conditional formatting.
• Apply Excel to real-world business problems in sales, finance, and HR.
Below are the different projects you will build.
• Project 1: Getting Started with Excel for Business
• Project 2: HR Employee Data Cleaner (Power Query + Data Quality)
• Project 3: Retail Store Sales Analysis (PivotTables, Slicers, Top-N)
• Project 4: Automated Monthly Sales Dashboard (VBA Refresh + PDF Export)
• Project 5: Executive KPI Dashboard (KPIs, Conditional Formatting, Slicers)
• Project 6: Startup Financial Forecast (What-If, Goal Seek, Data Tables)
• Project 7: End-to-End BI in Excel (Power Query → Pivots → PDF)
This course is for
• Excel users who know basics (formulas, formatting) and want real business projects
• Professionals in operations, HR, finance, or analytics
• Anyone who wants to build dashboards and models used in real companies
This course is NOT for
• Absolute Excel beginners
• Advanced Power BI or SQL users
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Who this course is for

■ Anyone who uses Excel at work or business, existing Excel users who want to level up their skills.
■ Anyone preparing for an interview that needs MS Excel skills
■ Someone who has a little Excel experience and would like to increase their Excel experience
■ This is not a complete beginner course.

Homepage

https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-excel-by-building-real-world-business-projects