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Excel Basics

Take your Excel skills to the next level by learning how to sort, filter, and pivot data.

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  • Skill level

    Beginner

  • Time to complete

    Approx. 2 hours

  • Certificate of completion

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  • Prerequisites

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About this course

Begin your Excel learning journey with Excel Basics. Microsoft Excel is among the most widely used technologies for data analytics. Learn how to sort, filter, and pivot data to shape it into the format you are looking for.

Skills you'll gain

  • Sort data based on custom parameters

  • Filter data based on values

  • Pivot a dataset

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Ada Morse
Data Science Instructional Designer at Codecademy
Ada is a Data Science Instructional Designer at Codecademy. Her background is in mathematics, with a Ph.D. focused on the design of self-assembling DNA nanostructures. Ada has worked on courses across our Data Science catalog, covering topics including Python, Excel, and Data Engineering.
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