Excel skills are as important as the subject knowledge. Those who know Excel can find a better paying job. An Excel Expert collects, edits, analyses data, creates data bases and reports. The conclusions made by the data expert are helpful for organizations to forecast the business speculations.
Objectives of the Course:
Understand the Integration and Utility of Microsoft 365 and Excel 365: Learn how Excel 365 integrates with the broader suite of Microsoft 365 applications, emphasizing cloud-based collaboration and real-time data analysis.
Master the Basics of Microsoft Excel: Gain foundational knowledge in Excel operations, including data entry, formula application, and basic spreadsheet navigation and management.
Apply Custom Formats and Layouts: Able to customize Excel sheets using styles, templates, views, and outlines to enhance readability and presentation of data.
Utilize Conditional Formatting for Data Analysis: Learn to apply conditional formatting to highlight or distinguish data based on specific criteria, aiding in more effective data analysis and decision-making.
Effectively Manage and Share Excel Workbooks: Manage workbooks efficiently and share them securely within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, leveraging Excel's exclusive features for collaboration.
Comprehensively Use Excel Functions: Acquire in-depth knowledge of Excel functions across categories like financial, logical, date and time, and lookup and reference to perform sophisticated data analysis.
Analyse Data Using Scenarios and What-If Analysis: Utilize Excel's What-If Analysis tools, including scenarios, data tables, and scenario summaries, to forecast and analyse data under various conditions.
Visualize Data with Advanced Charting Techniques: Explore and apply advanced charting techniques, including area, scatter, stock, surface, radar, and combination charts, along with custom templates and sparklines.
Leverage Pivot Tables and Charts for Data Analysis: Master the use of pivot tables and charts, understand their elements, and learn how to create dynamic dashboards for data visualization and analysis.
Who Should Join
Accounting and Finance Students – To gain practical skills in managing data, preparing reports, and performing financial analysis.
Business and Management Students – Essential for understanding data-driven decision-making, budgeting, and inventory management.
Data Analysts and Aspiring Data Professionals – Offers foundational tools like pivot tables, formulas, and scenario analysis for handling large datasets.
Retail Store Managers and Logistics Staff – Useful for inventory tracking, sales analysis, and reporting.
Human Resources (HR) Professionals – Beneficial for managing employee data, attendance records, and performance analysis.
Project Managers – Enables tracking project progress, managing resources, and scenario planning for effective project outcomes.
Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners – Essential for budgeting, sales analysis, and performance reporting to optimize business decisions.
What you'll learn ?
Demonstrate the ability to use Excel 365 as part of the Microsoft 365 suite to collaborate on projects, access documents from anywhere, and utilize cloud-based features for enhanced productivity.
Navigate and Utilize Excel Effectively: Exhibit proficiency in navigating the Excel user interface, performing basic operations, and applying formulas and functions for data manipulation.
Customize Excel Spreadsheets: Apply custom formats, styles, and layouts to Excel documents, making data more accessible and presentations more professional.
Analyse Data with Conditional Formatting: Use conditional formatting to automatically highlight important data points, trends, or outliers, facilitating quicker analysis and insights.
Collaborate and Manage Workbooks: Manage Excel workbooks effectively, including sharing and securing data within the Microsoft 365 environment, and leverage Excel's unique features to enhance collaboration and data analysis.
Apply Excel Functions for Data Analysis: Employ a wide array of Excel functions to analyse and interpret complex datasets, facilitating informed decision-making and insightful data analysis.
Conduct What-If Data Analysis: Perform What-If Analysis using scenarios and data tables to predict outcomes and make data-driven decisions in various business and research contexts.
Design and Customize Excel Charts: Create visually compelling and informative charts using advanced Excel features, customizing them to suit specific data presentation needs.
Analyse and Present Data with Pivot Tables and Charts: Construct and customize pivot tables and charts to summarize, analyse, and present large datasets in an accessible and actionable format, including the creation of comprehensive dashboards.
Certification
KLiC courses are recognised by Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU).
MKCL provides certificate to the KLiC learner after his/her successful course completion.
Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) provides mark sheet to successfully passed KLiC learners (Jurisdiction: Maharashtra).
Academic Approach
The academic approach of the courses focuses on the “work-centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book!), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful.
The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as an employee or entrepreneur as well as development of the community to which s/he belongs.
Learning methodology:
Step -1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
Step -2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
Step -3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
Step -4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
Step -5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
Step -6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
Step -7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
Step -8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
Step -9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
Step-10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
Step-11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
Step-12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
Syllabus
Introduction to Microsoft 365 and Excel 365
Basics of Microsoft Excel
Apply Custom Styles and Templates
Using Custom Views and Outlines
Introduction
Top & Bottom Categories
Greater Than
Highlight Cells Rules - Less Than, Between, Equal To, Clear Rules
Highlight Cells Rules - A Date Occurring
Highlighting cells rules
Data Bars, Color Scales, Icon Sets
New Rule
Apply Custom Data Formats
*Using Advanced Fill Option
Manage and Share Workbooks
Exclusive Features of Excel in Microsoft 365
Employ a wide array of Excel functions to analyze and interpret complex datasets, facilitating informed decision-making and insightful data analysis.
Perform What-If Analysis using scenarios and data tables to predict outcomes and make data-driven decisions in various business and research contexts.
Create visually compelling and informative charts using advanced Excel features, customizing them to suit specific data presentation needs.
Construct and customize pivot tables and charts to summarize, analyze, and present large datasets in an accessible and actionable format, including the creation of comprehensive dashboards.
Evaluation Pattern
Evaluation Pattern of KLiC Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:
Section No.
Section Name
Total Marks
Minimum Passing Marks
1
Learning Progression
25
10
2
Internal Assessment
25
10
3
Final Online Examination
50
20
Total
100
40
4
SUPWs (Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
5 Assignments
2 Assignments to be Completed & Uploaded
YCMOU Mark Sheet
Printed Mark Sheet will be issued by YCMOU on successful completion of Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3 and will be delivered to the learner by MKCL.
YCMOU Mark Sheet will be available only for Maharashtra jurisdiction learners
MKCL's KLiC Certificate
The certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:
Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments
Courses Fee Structure from 01 July, 2025
KLiC 60 hour course fee applicable from 01 July, 2025 all over Maharashtra
KLiC Course Duration
MFO: MKCL Share (Including 18% GST)
ALC Share (Service Charges to be collected by ALC*)
MKCL Certificate
YCMOU Marksheet
60 hours
Rs. 500/-
Rs. 2,500/-
Available
Not Available
Important Points:
* ALCs can collect additional 18% GST from Learner on ALC Share
* Above mentioned fee is applicable for all Modes of KLiC Courses offered at Authorised Learning Center (ALC) and at Satellite Center
* Total fee is including of Course fees, Examination fees and Certification fees
* MKCL reserves the right to modify the Fees of Courses during the year without any prior notice and MKCL shall not be liable to anyone for any such modification/s
Courses Fee Structure Upto 31 May, 2025
From 01 January 2025 onwards, the fees for all courses in ALCs of Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA), Pune Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (PMRDA) and rest of Maharashtra will be applicable as shown in the table below:
KLiC Courses of 60 Hours:
Region
Total Fee (Rupees)
MMRDA, PMRDA and Rest of Maharashtra
3000/-
Total fee is including of Course fees, Examination fees and Certification fees
