Microsoft Excel

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Spreadsheet software for formatting and analysis.

About Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a software program, developed by Microsoft and sold as part of the Microsoft 365 suite. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.

Features of the Microsoft Excel application include user friendly formatting options that make formatting numbers and data easier, pattern matching and value lists that save time when typing in information by using an interface similar to filling in a form, and custom number formats that allow users to add leading zeroes or change number separators.


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Microsoft Excel Software - Microsoft Excel - import data from other apps, including Power BI
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Overall rating

4.8 /5
(19,049)
Value for Money
4.6/5
Features
4.7/5
Ease of Use
4.3/5
Customer Support
4.3/5

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Samuel
Samuel
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best Spreadsheet Software (Microsoft Excel)

Reviewed on 23/05/2024

Microsoft Excel is an excellent spreadsheet and productivity tool for Data entry, retrieval,...

Microsoft Excel is an excellent spreadsheet and productivity tool for Data entry, retrieval, analysis, inventory management.

Excel files can be exported to various format including .csv, xps, pdf, html, ods and other file format.

Pros

Customer support.
Ease of use and setup.
Collaborative features.
Flexible file sharing.
30 days free trial.

Cons

Maximum number of row is 1,048,576.
If data size is very large, pc can freeze.

Alternatives Considered

Zoho Sheet, LibreOffice and Google Sheets

Reasons for Switching to Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is industry standard. The spreadsheet tool have huge community and users.
Julius
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Microsoft Excel Really Excels!

Reviewed on 13/11/2024

Overall, Microsoft Excel is my go-to software when it comes to generating tables, charts, graphs...

Overall, Microsoft Excel is my go-to software when it comes to generating tables, charts, graphs and presentations even at the basic level. It is not an intimidating software with all complex commands that takes you away from a beneficial use of it.

Pros

What I like most about Microsoft Excel is the capacity of the software to create formulas from the basic to the more complicated mathematical solutions. This feature provides some usable data in presentation and data analysis.

Cons

What I like the least about Microsoft Excel is the formatting of the cells that Text Control under the Alignment tab particularly the 'Wrap Text' feature. Sometimes it does not really function well as some of the cells does not really 'wrap' thus the text inside the table would not fully appear in the finish document.

Chris
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  • Industry: Writing & Editing
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

Not too bad.

Reviewed on 07/08/2024

It's an alright program but there's probably better. It does what it's supposed to do.

It's an alright program but there's probably better. It does what it's supposed to do.

Pros

It makes it easy for keeping track of money and stuff.

Cons

It's a little complicated to understand/use.

Amanda
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excel by name and by nature

Reviewed on 29/09/2024

Pros

I couldn’t live without it! My go to for everything even vaguely commercial

Cons

I wish I could pay a subscription for excel alone rather than the whole Microsoft Office suite

Alternatives Considered

Google Sheets

Reasons for Switching to Microsoft Excel

It just works better - more familiar from years of experience
Sarah
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Microsoft Excel

Reviewed on 30/11/2024

Microsoft Excel is one of the best data gathering, visualization and analysis sheets app on the...

Microsoft Excel is one of the best data gathering, visualization and analysis sheets app on the market. Is integrating very well with Microsoft 365 apps, is simple to use and is available on all platforms, even on smartphones.

Pros

The main reason I still use Excel are the macros, these are very helpful as it allows us to export every workbook sheet as PDF files (this is the macro I use every day) and add many other functionalities to it. Another feature that make excel stand are the formulas, they help me with importing large amount of data automatically from other Excel workbooks and make automatic calculation based on the newly imported data. There are great features witch saves me a lot of time.

Cons

Mobile app is somehow limited in use, is good for view but is hard to work on it.

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Microsoft Excel FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Excel offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: USD 6.00/month
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Microsoft Excel is available as part of Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Office 365 Personal: $6.99/month or $69.99/year Office 365 Home: $9.99/month or $99.99/year Office Home & Student 2019: $149.99 one-time Office 365 Business: $8.25/user/month (annual commitment required) Office 365 Business Premium: $12.50/user/month (annual commitment required) Office 365 Business Essentials: $5/month (annual commitment required) Users can also access the web-based version of Microsoft Excel through the free OneDrive Basic 5GB, and the $1.99/month OneDrive 100GB subscription plans.

Microsoft Excel has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Microsoft Excel supports the following languages:

Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian

Microsoft Excel supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Microsoft Excel integrates with the following applications:

123FormBuilder, ActiveCampaign, Acuity Scheduling, Airtable, Alchemer, Any.do, Asana, Basecamp, CRM Analytics, Cascade Strategy, ClickFunnels, ClickUp, Clio, Constant Contact, Discord, Dropbox Business, Eventbrite, Evernote Teams, FastField, Firebase, Formidable Forms, Formsite, Formstack Documents, Freshdesk, GoCanvas, Google Contacts, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Forms, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Gravity Forms, HubSpot CRM, InstaPage, Instagram, Jira, Jotform, Kajabi, Knack, Landingi, LinkedIn for Business, Mailchimp, ManyChat, Microsoft 365, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft To Do, Miro, MySQL, Ninja Forms, OneDrive, Paperform, Parserr, PayPal, Pipedrive, Pipefy, Podio, RingCentral Contact Center, Shopify, Slack, Smartsheet, Squarespace, Stripe, SurveyMonkey, Todoist, Trello, Twilio, Twitter/X, Typeform, Unbounce, Venngage, WPForms, Wave, Webflow, Wix, WooCommerce, WordPress, Wufoo, Xero, Zapier, Zendesk Suite, Zoho Forms, Zoom Workplace, mailparser.io, monday.com

Microsoft Excel offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support

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