15 Best Microsoft Excel Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Microsoft Excel courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 3 come from a named university or institution, including Macquarie University, University of Colorado Boulder and University of California, Irvine. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $9.99 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "microsoft excel" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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1
Create a Simple Gantt Chart using Microsoft Excel
Offered by Coursera
By the end of this project, you will be able to create a simple Gantt chart to manage your next project. You will utilize the free online version of Microsoft Excel to create a Gantt chart from scratch. This Gantt chart...
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2
Microsoft Excel: Learn with Projects
Offered by Coursera
Microsoft Excel is the most widely used business software in the world and one of the most in-demand skills across virtually every industry and job role. Whether you are a student, a small business owner, a career starte...
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Master Microsoft Excel & 365 Apps: Beginner to Advanced
Offered by Packt
This specialization features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress throug...
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4
Data calculations in Microsoft Excel
Offered by Coursera
By the end of this project, you will create a free account on Microsoft 365, will get access to Microsoft Excel, you will create a table with data that you will later be able to manipulate to calculate sums, average amou...
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Microsoft Excel 2021-2024 Mastery
Offered by Logical Operations
This Specialization equips learners with skills to organize, analyze, and visualize data efficiently using Microsoft Excel. It covers everything from formulas, PivotTables, and data validation to charting and visualizati...
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Create a Simple Project Timeline in Microsoft Excel
Offered by Coursera
By the end of this project, you will create a free account on Microsoft 365, get access to Microsoft Excel, define a project, understand what elements need to be identified and documented before creating a project timeli...
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Excel Time Series Models for Business Forecasting
Offered by Macquarie University
This course explores different time series business forecasting methods. The course covers a variety of business forecasting methods for different types of components present in time series data — level, trending, and se...
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Statistics and Applied Data Analysis
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
A comprehensive understanding of statistics and data analysis is paramount for the fields of data science, data analytics, and machine learning. In the first course of this specialization, you will learn traditional and...
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Everyday Excel
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This Specialization is for learners wishing to learn Microsoft Excel from beginner level to expert level. The first two courses will teach learners the basics of Excel through the use of dozens of educational screencasts...
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Introduction to Financial Accounting: The Accounting Cycle
Offered by University of California, Irvine
In this hands-on Specialization you will practice completing each step of the accounting cycle within Microsoft Excel, from analyzing and recording the first financial transactions of the year all the way through startin...
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Excel Basics for Beginners: Workbooks, Formatting, Charts and Core Skills
Offered by Knowledge Accelerators
Unlock the power of Excel—your gateway to smarter data management and analysis. • Microsoft Excel is the world’s most widely used spreadsheet tool, relied on by over 750 million users globally. Whether you're managing bu...
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Excel for Beginners: Beginner Functions
Offered by Coursera
This 1-hour, project-based course introduces learners to basic spreadsheet functions. We’ll be using Excel on the Web in this project, which is the free spreadsheet program offered by Microsoft. However, all of the conce...
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Maximize Office Productivity with GenAI
Offered by Logical Operations
This Specialization equips learners with the skills to use generative AI to work more efficiently with productivity tools like Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and similar software from other vendors. It covers everyth...
$49.00listed price -
14
Getting started with Azure IOT Hub
Offered by Coursera
In this 1-hour guided project, you will create an IoT hub & an IoT device in Azure and use a Raspberry Pi web simulator to send telemetry data to the IoT hub. You will then create an Azure Cloud storage account to store...
$9.99listed price -
15
Excel to Power BI: Data Analysis & Business Intelligence
Offered by Knowledge Accelerators
Excel and Power BI skills are in high demand across finance, marketing, operations, and analytics roles. Over 80% of business analyst and data-focused positions list these tools as a core requirement. The program guides...
$49.00listed price
Best Microsoft Excel Courses on Coursera compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $39.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 3 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Macquarie University, University of Colorado Boulder and University of California, Irvine — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.