Microsoft Excel

4.8 (19,111)
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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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Overall rating

4.8 /5
(19,111)
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.
Pablo
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

My experience with Excel

Reviewed on 22/01/2025

A pretty good one, I've done all kind of works with excel and there have been very few times that I...

A pretty good one, I've done all kind of works with excel and there have been very few times that I have felt like there was a problem with excel and not something that I didn't know how to do.

Pros

How simple it is to use, super user oriented in a way that everything is easy to find and use.

Cons

That sometimes you can face collaboration challenges given how in today's world other tools are better at that

Chris
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  • Industry: Writing & Editing
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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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.

Nathan
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  • Industry: Wholesale
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent software for all your spreadsheet needs

Reviewed on 04/12/2024

Pros

Familiarity, ease of use, integration across the rest of Office 365, onedrive access etc

Cons

I have no issues to report regarding this application

Alternatives Considered

Apache OpenOffice

Reasons for Switching to Microsoft Excel

I learned to use excel back in High School so really familiarity was the initial key reason to opt for excel.
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

highly recommended software for handling large datasets and data visualization

Reviewed on 23/01/2025

overall i used Microsoft excel for sorting our the large set of database in the spreasheet where i...

overall i used Microsoft excel for sorting our the large set of database in the spreasheet where i use different type of formula's and v lookup to get the exact numbers and calculations which is making my job very easier. also using spreadsheet for data visualization and creating bar graphs from database and now by using v lookup in the Microsoft excel, i am very happy and looks like i am doing something productive work

Pros

i like v lookup functionality in the Microsoft excel. also Data visualization, conditional formatting and find and replace features are also very useful and liked it

Cons

there are too many formulas and shortcuts but its very hard to find and remind all those at one place

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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: US$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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