Enhance your Excel and AI skills to work effectively in today’s data-driven workplace. Designed for Excel users ready to take their skills further, this Professional Certificate helps you integrate Microsoft Copilot into your existing workflows to analyze data, automate tasks, and turn information into actionable insights.
You’ll strengthen your ability to use Copilot alongside Excel’s formulas and functions, while learning how to write effective prompts that help you complete tasks and explore data more efficiently. You’ll apply these skills to clean and transform datasets, identify errors and missing values, analyze trends and patterns, and use statistical techniques to uncover meaningful insights.
Turn your analysis into clear, compelling outputs by creating PivotCharts, data visualizations, reports, and interactive dashboards. You’ll also explore macros and VBA to automate repetitive tasks, create custom workflows, and extend what you can accomplish in Excel.
By the end of the program, you’ll have strengthened your Excel, Copilot, data analysis, visualization, and automation skills through practical, hands-on projects. You’ll have a portfolio of work that demonstrates how you can apply these skills to real-world business challenges—whether you’re looking to enhance your impact in your current role, expand into more data-focused responsibilities, or prepare for new career opportunities.
Applied Learning Project
Throughout this Professional Certificate, you’ll apply your existing Excel skills to realistic data workflows while learning to use Microsoft Copilot. Through hands-on projects, you’ll create portfolio-ready artifacts that demonstrate your ability to prepare, analyze, visualize, communicate, and automate data.
You’ll use Copilot to create an attendance tracker, work with PivotTables and PivotCharts, develop data visualizations and reports, and build an interactive dashboard incorporating predictive and scenario analysis. You’ll also use macros and VBA to automate repetitive tasks and create custom workflows.
These projects mirror real-world data challenges and demonstrate skills relevant to data-driven roles in data analysis, business analysis, and operations. You’ll showcase your ability to use Copilot to turn data into insights, communicate findings, and improve workplace workflows—skills you can apply in your current role or highlight when pursuing new career opportunities.
