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What is Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft Excel is the world’s most versatile data analysis and visualization platform, designed to help you make smarter decisions with clarity and precision. Whether you’re a student, entrepreneur, analyst, or enterprise professional, Excel enables you to transform raw numbers into actionable insights. Its powerful combination of formulas, charts, and PivotTables provides everything needed for modeling, tracking, and reporting. The introduction of Microsoft Copilot elevates Excel into an AI-driven assistant that can generate formulas, summarize data sets, and explain calculations in plain language. For more advanced users, Python in Excel opens up new horizons for data science and predictive analytics, all within a familiar spreadsheet interface. With cloud-based collaboration and version control, teams can coedit, share, and review data securely across devices. Excel’s integration with Word, PowerPoint, and Power BI makes it an essential hub for business intelligence and cross-functional workflows. Security features like Microsoft Defender and ransomware protection ensure your files remain safe from threats while maintaining compliance. Available across desktop, web, and mobile, Excel provides a unified experience wherever you work. For over three decades, Excel has empowered millions to calculate, visualize, and communicate with confidence—now reimagined with the power of AI.

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$8.25 per user per month
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Free Version available.

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Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel

Company Facts

Company Name:
Microsoft
Date Founded:
1975
Company Location:
United States
Company Website:
www.microsoft.com

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  • Reviewer Name: Ayush G.
    Position: Product Solution Expert
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    Most reliable tool for data & analysis

    Date: Sep 25 2025
    Summary

    Excel has proved to be one of the most powerful & dependable tool for data analysis & managing data internally as well as presenting externally. Overall & basic features are easy to learn & use but when it comes to complex formulas & extensions it becomes a little tougher to learn & implement on our own.

    Positive

    - Its reliable functions, formulas & pivot tables that handles the complex data easily.
    - Its strong integration with Power BI has helped me analyse & present my data cleanly with great looking dashboards.
    - We used it for Sales analysis, Cost comparison, contemplating datasheets which more or less helps us in all our data related tasks.

    Negative

    - When using complex formulas, it is a little tough for a rookie to learn and implement without a mentor.
    - While implementing Extensions like ChatGPT or simple or any other simple extension like a translator its quite tough to figure out how they actually works.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Operations Manager
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    It's Excel

    Date: Jan 09 2023
    Summary

    Been using excel for a long time and it is pretty much universally used at corporations. Lots of potential depending on your skill level.

    Positive

    So many possibilities! You can do so much with this program once you build the skillset. Luckily there are tons of resources online and you can learn it all on your own.

    Negative

    Date formatting is a mess at times. Sometimes you just want a number but it turns to a date, and vice-versa.

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  • Reviewer Name: Nabeel S.
    Position: Research Officer
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    All in one solution

    Date: Jul 29 2023
    Summary

    It's essential for data analysis and visualizations, with a user-friendly interface that's welcoming for beginners. Advanced features may require a learning curve, but they are powerful once mastered. Occasional glitches and limitations in handling big data sets are minor hiccups in an otherwise top-notch software.

    Positive

    Microsoft Excel is the present's leading hero tool for all solutions to accounting, statistical analysis, and graphical representation, and now it is a more advanced feature to run API from the macros.

    Negative

    The learning steep is high for formulas, macros, and coding.

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  • Reviewer Name: BALAZS H.
    Position: Teacher
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Good Old Excel The Ingenious Spreadsheet

    Updated: May 04 2021
    Summary

    The use of spreadsheets was very useful even before computers. As a computer science teacher, I can teach a lot of things from it that also develop computer literacy.

    Positive

    Excel is maybe the best software from Microsoft.
    There are hundreds of very useful functions: mathematical operations, sorting, filtering and I could even classify indefinitely.
    Perhaps few people know it but a complete programming language (Visual Basic for Applications) is also hidden in it.

    Negative

    It's hard to say any wrong about it. First my students afraid of it.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Software Developer
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
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    The only spreadsheet app you will need

    Date: Jun 06 2020
    Summary

    Microsoft Excel is a sliver bullet when it comes to working with spreadsheets. It is simple enough to begin with and advanced enough for complex scenarios, making it a widely accepted among vast majority.

    Positive

    Ribbon toolbar display.
    Macros support.
    Excellent mobile app.
    OneDrive integration.
    Great documentation & online support.
    Many formulas & assistance tools.

    Negative

    Working with very large files makes system lag.
    Poor support for csv files.
    Advanced features require lots of learning.

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  • Reviewer Name: Navneet Singh N.
    Position: Student
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    Keep track for your expenses

    Date: Nov 26 2020
    Summary

    Overall a great software with great features and helps you to export data in different formats like CSV, PDF, XLSX, etc. And you can also visualise them.

    Positive

    You can organise all your expenditures and mange them very easily with this. And its have some great features like formula and translate which are helpful in many cases.

    Negative

    No complains with this, serves it value supports multiple file type.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Student
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    Great software to process data

    Date: Jun 24 2020
    Summary

    Great software to make quick and easy graphs and process data. Used to organize research and data used.

    Positive

    So easy to use.
    Data can be processed so easily and quickly.
    So many short cuts too to use while using the software.

    Negative

    Many soft cuts have to be learned and would be helpful to know.

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  • Reviewer Name: Chet N.
    Position: CEO
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
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    Amazing and flexible

    Date: Apr 21 2020
    Summary

    Overall it's a great tool because you can use formulas to easily create data sheets and great ways to understand the data in charts etc.

    Positive

    I've learned a lot of cool ways to use excel over the last several years and it's such an awesome tool to use for manipulating data.

    Negative

    There is a very large learning curve for data manipulations.

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  • Reviewer Name: Andy S.
    Position: Manager
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
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    Everything is better when you do it in Excel!

    Date: Apr 14 2020
    Summary

    My favorite software for just about any routine task. Graphs, tables, making to-do lists, doing comparative mathematics etc. There are functions to do just about anything if you put your mind to it.

    Positive

    Very flexible and useful for a whole host of different tasks. Formulas can be used to configure just about any set of information into any format you need.

    Negative

    My only regret is that there are people who still build tables in MS Word... I have tried to convert everyone to Excel that I can.

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  • Reviewer Name: Spencer B.
    Position: CFO
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
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    Great Product!

    Date: Jun 25 2020
    Summary

    I love using Excel. I am an avid user and I learn about a new way to format data, a new formula, etc. almost every day.

    Positive

    There are too many pros to list in this post. Excel is a powerful tool. Many users of Excel don't know even a fraction of what this software is capable of doing, myself included.

    Negative

    There are not a lot of cons. Some of the recent enhancements Microsoft made over the past couple of versions, and with 365, enhancements are great.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: PhD student
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 10,000 - 19,999
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    Much better than Google Sheets!

    Date: May 16 2020
    Summary

    Microsoft Excel is essential for any business, small or large. The better you are with it, the more value it has!

    Positive

    You can do so much with Excel. Whether you are a beginner or expert, Excel can benefit your workflow and data management.

    Negative

    I wish there was some sort of cloud-based worksheets making it easier to collaborate.

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    Position: Business Analyst
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    Excel - Review

    Date: Jun 11 2020
    Summary

    Excel is like one of the basic applications on every computer. It is super easy to use. The recovery feature is very good when the computer is shut without notice excel can recover your working sheet. The only problem I have always faced is handling CSV in excel the formatting is always a problem, numbers get truncated in CSV.

    On an overall level excel is very easy to use and provides a great set of features. One can easily adapt and work on excel.

    Positive

    (+) Easy to use and offers great flexibility to work with.
    (+) Macros integration is a very cool feature.
    (+) Visualization options are quite good.
    (+) Option to recover files in case of shut down.
    (+) Community of excel users is too big you can get support from many resources.

    Negative

    (-) It cannot handle a lot of data. Gets stuck too often in case of large datasets.
    (-) Handling CSV data in excel is always a problem, the formatting gets changed always.
    (-) Data gets truncated if CSV formatted files are used.

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