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Data analysis solution that helps businesses manage spreadsheets, create graphs/charts, perform calculations, share projects, and more.

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Pros:

It's versatile functionality and data handling is best in class. It's online help and a huge user community makes it easy to learn and collaborate.

Cons:

I struggled to do use the different settings. I had trouble with printing everything correctly but it was mostly user error.

Microsoft Excel ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.3
Customer Service
4.3
Features
4.7
Value for Money
4.6

Likelihood to recommend

9.1/10

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Esther
Esther
Payroll Coordinator in US Virgin Islands
Verified LinkedIn User
Construction, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Microsoft Excel with ease

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: My overall experience with Microsoft Excel has been positive. It does all I can possibly need right now.

Pros:

What I like about Microsoft Excel is the ability to create different spreadsheets for so many different aspects of my everyday life. I have created budgets for my son and daughter. All they need to do is input their numbers and everything is calculated. I like that.

Cons:

There's not anything negative I can say about Microsoft Excel.

Noah
Manager Owner in US
Construction, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Excel Review

5.0 7 days ago New

Comments: The experience is great. A good software that is capable of heavy use day to day.

Pros:

I like the unlimited number of options it has, from entering equations to sorting data to calculating huge amounts of data.

Cons:

It is not the easiest software to use. Most of the time when I try a new feature, I have to go watch a YouTube video on how to do it and how it works.

Loide
Administrator in Namibia
Military, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

My review on Microsoft Excel

3.0 3 years ago

Comments: The principal project that I truly scholarly a great deal about Excel in was building an accounting page to track and plan my course enrollments with as a rookie in school. I needed to figure my aggregate GPA and GPA by term, and I needed to design the entirety of the courses I would take every semester from my first semester in school to my final remaining one. By that point I realized how to utilize rotate tables and some other information decrease recipes, yet I didn't actually have a clue how to utilize query works yet. I assembled a large portion of that bookkeeping page around a capacity to naturally ascertain letter grades dependent on rates, and afterward essential SUM capacities for the GPA computations. The subsequent case was for designing and cleaning a humungous fix of information in my last semester of school. 32 cycle Excel wasn't made for the errand I was utilizing it for around there, however it worked effectively with some content cleanup that I would not like to figure out how to do utilizing standard articulations somewhere else. This experience was and stays educational for me. I learned more a long time of doing those undertakings than my companions who took classes to learn Excel.

Pros:

Colossal degree as Excel has mathematical and literary capacities; you can add hyperlinks and pictures thus significantly more. Numerous sheets can assist it with acting practically like a social information base when joined with separating and arranging capacities. Mistake catching should be possible utilizing.

Cons:

The one fundamental hindrance of the extent of MS Excel is that an excessive number of individuals are self trained and the manner in which they have made the accounting page is undocumented so over the long run individuals attempt to alter and present mistakes. Naming cells makes formulae more significant and simpler to fathom. I once attempted to figure out an accounting page individuals had been utilizing for a very long time and found there was an entire section of qualities incorrectly being remembered for an equation. Somebody had been advised to erase a section however they had quite recently concealed it from see so every one of the qualities were all the while being included messing genuine up. Knowing the contrast between concealing qualities and erasing them is quite major.

Joanna
Sr. Media Manager in US
Telecommunications, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Workplace Essential

5.0 3 months ago

Pros:

It is endlessly customizable. It's obviously great at calculations and typical data analytics, but is also a wonderful project management tool and, with some creativity, can be used in live presentations.

Cons:

I wish there was more in-depth help within excel when your formula isn't formatted correctly. There are lots of resources online and Microsoft's website, but you have to leave the application.

İlyas
Engineer in Türkiye
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

analysis for everyone

5.0 last month New

Comments: usually makes things easier and more useful

Pros:

A program that allows you to do calculations without using any other program, except for very detailed analysis (logistic regression) (non parametric regression) (manova). A program that is so large that it is impossible to use or know how to use all its add-ons.

Cons:

When an error is made in the analysis, it does not say what caused the error.

Julius
Senior Technical Designer in Australia
Construction, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Microsoft Excel Really Excels!

5.0 3 weeks ago New

Comments: 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.

Aniruddha
Operations Support in US
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Leveraging Data Old School but Reliant

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: It has been great tool with the reputation it has built over the years and also the bandwidth of features it helps every type of business.

Pros:

Excel has been our go to tool for any type of data and reporting purposes. We as a company and I personally have so much time invested in Excel because of the the way data gets structure in a more efficient way that helps dive deep into data and leverage it as per our business needs.

Cons:

The limitation on Pivot table type and also the graph type which are invited and pretty basic too. Sometimes the reason behind formulas not working is not very clear but vague.

Roberta
Writer in US
Nonprofit Organization Management, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
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Microsoft Excel gives me a professional rep

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: It’s an excellent software, for budgets as well as tracking various grant applications. And I can access it at anytime - which is enormously helpful too.

Pros:

I really do like creating Excel spread sheets. I love how it keeps me organized. I also appreciate being able to add rows or columns as needed at anytime. This has allowed my listing of various grant applications and all the pertinent information updated.

Cons:

I disliked how intimidating it seemed at first. All these little boxes that I sometimes to learn how to accurately fill. But I got over that quickly, and now can’t imagine doing my work without it.

Nikola
Research and Analytics Specialist in Poland
Management Consulting, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

The best spreadsheet tool now

5.0 2 weeks ago New

Comments: I've used Excel for some simple calculations, data cleaning and summary tables, as well as for pivot tables, complex analyses etc. And it works really great as long as your dataset isn't too large.

Pros:

As for now, the best spreadsheet tool with lots of additional features, such as visualizations, macros, compability with other Office software, and many others (AI, Python, DAX).

Cons:

It is easy to start with this tool but gets challenging really fast if you want to do something more complex - you need to learn lots of formulas and shortcuts and they are often not that intuitive.

Joni
Ind. Beauty Consultant in US
Cosmetics, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Microsoft Excel is an essential tool in my work toolbox

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: I've been using Excel for 35 years and have found it an essential tool. It isn't just for tracking numbers. It makes your data more useable.

Pros:

Excel has powerful features. For beginners, the basic features are easy to learn. For people with more advanced needs, the power of Excel makes life a lot easier.

Cons:

I use the 365 version and I wish that the online and desktop versions were more similar.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Civil Engineering, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Excel - an all powerful tool

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: Overall I love Excel for the variety of inbuilt functions that help you make models. I have heavily used Excel for my Ph.D. research in the last three years, and I can assert that Excel still has new functionalities that I have not discovered yet.

Pros:

Excel is one of the most powerful tools that is used daily in Fortune 500 corporations. From simple graphs and tables to complex VLOOKUP functions that I use daily, Excel can be used in home, offices, and schools. I find Excel extremely useful to store and manage data. Excel can handle every large data sets and is very intuitive to conduct simple data analysis and visualize it. I have been using Excel for more than eight years now, and I can vouch for the plethora of functionalities it provides to make our lives easier. From making Pivot Tables to conducting sensitivity analysis in my financial research models, Excel is a one-stop solution for quick modeling work. I have found that sometimes, it is much easier to transform and clean data in Excel rather than writing complex scripts in Python or MATLAB.

Cons:

Excel's way of indicating errors in your formulas aren't always helpful to figure out the exact source of error. Plus Excel doesn't have an inbuilt autocorrection to check for spelling errors. You must double-check the spellings in your Excel model/document before sharing it with anyone.

Elena
Office Administrator in US
Construction, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

An Essential for Any Business

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: As mentioned above, I used to be intimidated by Excel. I actually really enjoy using Excel now though. I find myself using it for little day-to-day calculations. Could I manually figures into a calculator and risk an incorrect calculation because I pressed the wrong button? Yes. Better yet, though, I can put the data in Excel and have it run the calculations for me. I cannot remember the last time I used a calculator.

Pros:

I used to be afraid of Excel. It has so many features and functionalities that I used to get easily overwhelmed. However, once I took some training classes and watched some training videos online, I started to really like the software. Using it has greatly decreased the amount of time I spend manipulating data. It's also great that because there are so many users, you can pretty much Google anything that you want to do in Excel and find a training video for it. I love that I can condense data into pivot tables for easy viewing. I used to work for a company that created a very involved spreadsheet that they used to convert hourly employees' timecards into appropriate data to upload to ADP for payroll processing. If you can imagine it, Excel can probably do it.

Cons:

I would like to be able to share spreadsheets for editing more easily without having to use SharePoint. Aside of that, I feel like Microsoft has worked out a lot of the kinks with this software since it has been out for so long.

Ahmed
Technical office engineer in Egypt
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

The life with a spreadsheet

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: I've been dealing with MS Excel for almost 8 years now starting with the basic use during my studies till the professional use when I was at work and it was literally one of the things that changed my life and way of thinking, whenever I wanted to do a task that was required from me all I needed to do is to search for a function or equation or a way on excel to make it easier and from only this, I learnt to always search for different things to learn from the internet.
I will describe excel as a way of life.

Pros:

• With MS excel you are able to deal with hundreds of data categorized and organized. • It assists in comparing, sorting, calculating & a lot of different uses in our daily work routine. • As a live example I use the tool every day as my work needs a lot of data entry with sorted documentation under a variety of inputs, with this tool in hand you can finish these tasks within normally an hour, but if you used normal documentation tools it will probably take weeks.

Cons:

• The struggle that you will face at the start of the usage, sometimes excel could be more sophisticated to people who didn't deal with pc toolings to be specific how to get the most advantages of the tool you are using. • Interfacing with excel doesn't require a skill it requires a total understanding of the tool to make the best use of it, if you don't know the features of the tool a job could take a long time compared to knowing the function that may help you do it faster.

Madhura
Madhura
Finance and Accounts Manager in United Arab Emirates
Verified LinkedIn User
Accounting, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Best Product Ever

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: Excel is my bread and butter. From simple addition-subtraction formulas, I have grown to creating Macros, Pivots in Excel. Excel is an integral part of my life as an accountant. I use it to manage accounts of a very small business firm instead of an ERP. Despite of using this for so many years, there is so much to learn and I keep finding new formulas on Tiktok or Instagram daily.

Pros:

Being an accountant, this is the first software in office I learnt to use. I have been using this for more than 13 years now. I love the formulas so much, they make our lives easier and makes using this software so much quicker. Best software for reporting numbers in tabular form and shows accurate details of figures. The entire application can be run on a keyboard if you know the formulas.

Cons:

There are too many formulas to remember, not a con exactly but it can be frustrating when you don't remember/find formula for the work you want to do. Difficult to work on excel with another colleague as it is offline and if I save it as sheets the format changes. If the offline file is corrupted, there is no way to recover it.

Mike
Mike
Accounting Specialist in Kenya
Verified LinkedIn User
Food & Beverages, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Microsoft Excel is the most Dynamic tool for undertaking financial tasks like data entry.

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: We have been able to solve a lot of business problems with Microsoft Excel. Below are some of the obstacles that we are able to overcome at workstation.
1. Financial reporting
2. Creating appealing spreadsheets
3. Carrying out data entry projects
4. Realization of arithmetic operations- Formulas on this software help us in such areas.
5. Statistical sampling
Finally, I would highly recommend Microsoft Excel to all those individuals that are looking to save time and energy while carrying out some vital business operations like financial reporting.

Pros:

To begin with, I must disclose that I have been using Microsoft Excel for more than six years +. In the midst of Microsoft Office suite, Excel is my favorite solution which has helped me to excel and is yet to do a lot. What I like about Microsoft Excel is that it is easy to install, setup, and reset up even with a little knowledge. Due to that, it is not necessarily to get comprehensive training in order to be a pro- since there is tons of tutorials in the entire internet. Personally, I used Excel in campus to solve some calculations, mainly repetitive calculations since it has all the tools for such capabilities. Nowadays, Microsoft Excel is one of the systems that help me to save time and energy since I am able to create, format, and edit spreadsheets. In addition, I like this software since it is available as both on-premise and cloud-based solution. With cloud-based solution or what we call Office 365, it is easy to work from anywhere provided there is stable internet connection.

Cons:

Although Microsoft Excel is the most advanced platform for carrying out data entry projects, it gets offered at a higher license cost per user. To make it competitive on the market, Microsoft should ensure that it increase the number of individuals that can use one account. Alternatively, Microsoft can reduce the total cost of getting a genuine Microsoft Excel. By doing that, they will be in a better situation to entice a lot of prospective customers, especially small businesspersons. Finally, the fact that Microsoft Excel is not available on its own is among the issues that I like least about it.

Sue
Owner in US
Arts & Crafts, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

A business must have!

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: I have used Excel for business, home and small home business. I started using Excel many years ago with no computer experience and taught myself mostly. I started using it to keep track of data and parts usage in automotive productions. I started simply and grew from there. Next I started using it to create and track part testing schedules. I was easily able to create the test parameters, details of these tests, add schematic and print information, dates, machine information, production lines, schedules, reports and file all completed tests and results as well as share these with engineers and customers. The ability to attach photos to these reports is a huge bonus. My next feature I learned with Pivot Tables and this opened a whole new arena of possibilities. I gathered all production line data and entered it into line items such as Production line, products coming off this line, counts, scrap, maintenance issues, costs, personnel and down time. This was them accessible in a pivot table I could manipulate to see where the cost where coming from, downtime issue and ways to cut costs and streamline production and maintenance. By simply clicking on which data I wanted to see, in an instant the data changed. From here I could transfer this data into charts for management to use at a glance.

Pros:

Easily store any and all data, information, photos, contacts... the use is endless. I believe I had only scratched the surface in Excel. The more I used it and explored its capabilities the more excited I got about how I could use it. It uses as it applies to large and small businesses is never ending. You can use it for home business and personal storage of information as well. My Grand kids even started to use it at age 5, obviously not for business but they taught themselves how to use it, PowerPoint and Word.

Cons:

I think the only issue I ever had was with updates. For personal use it is pricey when you need to update to the newest version, I suppose in the scheme of things and for its many uses its not that expensive though. Again for personal use when working or sharing with others the various versions can create some issues but they have gotten better about making sure each updated version can transfer data from the older versions Its only an problem when the person using the older version needs data thats on the newer version. As far as learning in Excel, there are so many books, tutorials and videos you can usually find what you need but there is also so many features in Excel I was only frustrated by wanting to know it all now rather than later.

Miguel
Owner in US
Accounting, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Microsoft Excel - An Accountants Best Friend!

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: King of spreadsheet programs. Google sheets or any "free" suite programs don't compare to how powerful and easy Excel really is.

Pros:

Everything, literally! Excel is and can be as powerful as you need it to be. For the casual user, it a wonderful spreadsheet program that you can use to track just about anything you need to. For the heavy user, with the proper training, trial and error, or simply using the "help" button, Excel has formulas, tables, and other options that will allow you to track, analyse, and present your financial information like never before. Formulas, pivot tables, and copy/pasting will make your job so much easier and cut down on the manual data entry and manual having to add number together. I've built everything from a simple electronic checkbook register to extensive financial reports that only require you to copy your financial data from your account system and paste it into excel. And without doing anything else, you can have all the financial reports that you need.

Cons:

To get technical this is one thorn in my side when it comes to Excel formulas. When using an "IF" formula that states to perform a mathematical function "IF" a particular set of cells meets a certain criteria. For Example: SUMIF Column A is "greater that 1" or IF Column A is "greater than one" sum what is in "Column B". The issue I have is working backwards to identify the cells that are being added that meet the criteria. When working with the small set of data, it isn't a problem. But if you have a long list of data, it nearly impossible without have to check yourself to determine when cells makes this statement true. Again, the casual user wouldn't understand this complaint.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Medical Practice, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
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Excel-essential for everyone

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: I'm an Excel user since my childhood and it is essential for every profession. I had a long journey with Excel still I didn’t find any better alternative for this spreadsheet software and this is the secret of success for remaining No 1 position. More love for Excel >>>

Pros:

If you are a kid and you are trying to interact with PC for the first time, Excel is first coming for the mind for initial learning. Since my childhood, excel did a lot for me and even I can't imagine a better alternative for this. We can do numerous things for our educational purposes and business purposes apart from some basic real mathematics. The macro function feature of Excel is really awesome and we can customize our final output as per our requirements. It contains all the examples for itself for various equations and this helps a lot when we are very new to any set of functions and these suggestions really save our priceless money. The latest versions of Excel support various file formats and also we can save our outputs as a PDF format for our convents. I'm really impressed with Excel algorithm because it was a cracker for big equations and we can get the results within a second. The mobile version of Excel also doing a pretty decent job for their users and we don’t need transferring cables to access our files within various platforms because the cloud service from office 365 is really cool.

Cons:

The Excel interface remains the same since their first appearance and we need some improvements in their appearance. Their pricing for the Office 365 package is comparatively high when compared to the other similar kind of alternatives. We are missing inbuilt auto-correction tool in excel and I hope this feature will be added soon.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Insurance, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Easy Office Tool to create Complex Tables and Charts

4.0 5 years ago

Comments: I typically used Excel to solve the business problem of measuring incremental impact of marketing campaigns - did those campaigns drive incremental or new customer growth or did they sell new food or restaurant products which were not purchased prior to the campaign. Excel allows me to visually show trend in total cases sold by month so I can show to category team and vendors if there was an year-over-year lift in cases of items targeted in campaigns or in the overall category to which those items belong. Excel charts enable easy visualization of incremental customer or product growth by creating charts.

Pros:

Microsoft Excel allows me to import thousands of rows of marketing data from web analytics software. I can then analyze it to see success metrics such as trend in year-over-year growth in new customers, cases sold, merchandising category such as grocery, etc. This analysis can be done by creating column or bar charts which show both a spike and lift in traffic or conversions during periods when the marketing campaigns ran. So, I can quickly correlate the lift or drop in performance to when the marketing campaigns started and when they ended. I can also use advanced analytics functions such as vLookup or pivot charts to associate email addresses to those customers who didn't purchase so my marketing team can run re-targeting campaigns against them. Or, deduplicate function to remove duplicates and extract a unique set of customer ids and names so I can run business intelligence reports against them.

Cons:

Microsoft Excel uses significant ram of a computer when number of rows being analyzes is in thousands. Or, if multiple files of Excel are open simultaneously. In such scenarios, Excel crashes and all open files close. It has to be restarted and not all changes are saved in backup versions of the files. Unless Excel being used is part of the cloud version of Microsoft Office also called Office 360. Similar challenges are faced when using advanced analysis functions like vLookup. When using vLookup against thousands of rows and multiple columns, Excel hogs more ram and slows down cpu so whole system freezes.

Randall
Owner & CEO in US
Information Technology & Services, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Excel is still king, but....

4.0 4 years ago

Comments: I used Excel to save me countless hours when I was a student data manager for a Tennessee school district. Being able to record or write macros so that tasks are automated -- that's priceless, and I'm grateful for Excel's role in that. As I said, I've created an application using Excel that is used by some school districts in Tennessee to save work hours (in some cases, shrinking time spent from 5 hours or more to 5 minutes). I've been able to carve out a small business doing so.

Pros:

Familiar to many office users Handles spreadsheet functions very well Highly customizable Has relatively easy macro creation for automation of repeated tasks, which allowed me to create a customized spreadsheet application used by school districts in Tennessee Uses Visual Basic for macros and code creation, and VB is a relatively simple, easy-to-read language

Cons:

When it comes to standard use (entering data and running calculations), there's not much to dislike except that Excel costs money if you're an individual or a business. Google Sheets does not, and Sheets added macro recording not long ago. Neither Excel nor Google Sheets has what I would consider great customer service. I mean, there's a wealth of information online about either which gets you past most obstacles, but there's no one I've found to talk to about issues such as the one described below. At some point recently, a pop-up message has begun showing up about Excel waiting for another application to complete an OLE request (or something similar). This stops my code in its tracks, and since the point of programming is to eliminate button clicks and manual oversight, it defeats the purpose. Based on my research, I see that the error is even popping up for users who are using Excel with no macros or VB code -- very frustrating, and the "simple" fixes suggested in some places have not worked for me or many others. (The same code triggering this messages still runs well on an older, slower machine. It doesn't make sense that Excel would have problems on a newer, faster PC.)

Shweta
Supervisor in Canada
Banking, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Excel is extraordinary accounting page device that help performs numerical and factual calculations

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: Excel is an incredible instrument for those who work on a lot of information and can deal with complex figurings with 100% precision. It permits you to make turn tables, sort, recover and investigate information, perform macros in VBA, construct diagrams, tables, and a lot more highlights in a breeze.Excel permits you to expand the equation up, down, across the bookkeeping page. You simply need to make the equation once in one cell and Excel will assist you with populating the recipe in the assigned lines/segments in your report. Excel shortcut keys drastically builds my efficiency by utilizing these tricks.Use for banks every day week after week month to month and yearly reports. Use for pattern investigation, planning and figure for different administrations offered by bank.Overall the experience on Excel is superior to the experience on most other bookkeeping page applications, so I believe Excel to be my #1 accounting page application.

Pros:

It is truly valuable apparatus and amazing contribution by Microsoft that assists with doing essential math's and details capacities and permits to get ready and clean information for cutting edge examination and information displaying functions.It goes about as a backend instrument to store and recover information. It has abilities like rotate tables, arranging, merge. It performs different capacities and capacity to arrange and introduce information in more outwardly engaging way.I like how it tends to be quite certain by the way it includes the data you entered into a record. It gets extremely point by point however can likewise be disentangled relying upon which sections and lines you'd prefer to have noticeable. It's likewise useful that you can share exercise manuals and numerous representatives can refresh data so there is one primary base to ceaselessly return to that is precise. Additionally the alternatives to make an exceptionally coordinated print of the data is nice.In simple,Excel is generally perceived as the best instrument actually to control information, make reports and dashboard.

Cons:

Restricted Security could be a major issue. You can secure the password of an Excel accounting page to keep unapproved individuals from accessing a document, however it doesn't shield the information from the individuals who have the password.It hangs a great deal when there are an enormous informational collection comprising of huge number of lines and sections of information to be handled.Excel could be tricky for some users as it is loaded up with numerous highlights.

Neeraj
Neeraj
Recruiter in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Staffing & Recruiting, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Best Microsoft Tool for Data Management

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: I am preparing data using the tables for presentations and for easy handling and access. The formulas provided and their functions help us to ensure that our results are upto the point. Mostly I love to use the Pivot table, as they create a relationship between the various sets of data that I am using. The shortcuts provided by Microsoft Excel helps the user to enter the data in easy way. I work with lots of worksheets at daily basis. It allows me to provide data to my team to create different forms of it for monthly and weekly reports for our clients.

Pros:

It has wide and amazing features to implement over the work. Most important of all is Conditional formatting and Pivot tables which are mostly used in data management and data sorting. Print Optimisation and Absolute references are also used in managing the cells. Product is quite easy to use as you know the work and implementation of the tools and features and anyone can work over it whether he is a beginner or proficient. I had to work with the spreadsheets for managing the client data and sorting them according to the requirements. So, the best solution for my work was to use excel and it helped us and my organization a lot. The performance of this tool was totally mind-blowing.

Cons:

Yes, sometimes I feel that there are some certain features that are missing like there is no protection feature for cell, workbook or sheet protection. No links to other spreadsheets are provided at all, you can rotate the text and no checkboxes are given. Apart from that, there are some features that are difficult even for daily users like Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), most of the users struggles in it. Macros and Automation is also somewhere difficult in some areas. But with my business, it was not difficult at all to maintain all this as we were trained at it and we have to use only some specific features for the data management. Overall experience is great.

Mowshori
Researcher in US
Education Management, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

With Microsoft Excel, I can look at a lot of data at once.

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Microsoft has made Excel apps that can be put on smartphones so that the user can view, edit, and share Excel files.

Pros:

It lets me work on the web version of MS Excel with my peers or coworkers. This means that I and my peers can access the Excel file from anywhere and change it at the same time. Excel is a great tool for analyzing data because not only can I store our data and do calculations with it, but it also comes with a number of other tools. Powerful tools for filtering, sorting, and searching help me narrow down the factors I need to think about when making decisions. So, I can play with a huge amount of data in an efficient way.

Cons:

If the file is too big, it can slow down the Excel program because the interpreter/compiler has to go through each row and/or column. The easiest way to make sure Excel is time-efficient is to break up the file into smaller files. For a one-time analysis, Microsoft Excel is a great tool. The information doesn't go into the spreadsheet. The user has to type in every single bit by hand.

Cevdet
Managing Director in Türkiye
Retail, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Legendary software

5.0 last year

Comments: Microsoft Excel has become an indispensable part of my work routine. Its versatility is truly unmatched. From basic number crunching to complex data analysis, Excel handles it all effortlessly. The range of functions and formulas available empowers me to perform calculations with precision. Pivot tables enable me to transform raw data into meaningful insights, aiding decision-making. The ability to create visually appealing charts and graphs enhances my presentations. Excel's compatibility with other Microsoft Office apps streamlines my workflow, making it an essential tool for anyone dealing with data and analysis.

Pros:

I really love using Microsoft Excel for its amazing data analysis and visualization capabilities. The way I can effortlessly turn rows of numbers into insightful graphs and charts is impressive. It helps me make sense of complex data by presenting it visually, which makes sharing information with colleagues a breeze. Excel's pivot tables are a game-changer too – they let me dissect data from various angles, revealing trends and patterns that might have gone unnoticed otherwise. This software truly transforms raw data into meaningful insights. Power Query and new array formulas so powerful.

Cons:

One aspect of Microsoft Excel that can be frustrating is its performance when dealing with large data sets. As the data grows, the software slows down, and it sometimes becomes unresponsive. This can be especially problematic when working on critical projects with tight deadlines.

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My experience with excel has been quite good and has been improving over the years.

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: I have benefited a lot from the use of excel from the university as well as the work environment. In the university on repeated occasions I have had to resort to the use of excel to quantify data obtained in the field for certain jobs among other things and in the field of work has certainly been very useful for the counting of sales, prices, costs, losses among other data that must be constantly updated by the company for which I work. Without a doubt, it is a software of excellence that with each passing year becomes more useful and easier to use, more user friendly. If it would be convenient that the support and the documentation of the same one was a little more simple to understand for those people who just begin to use it.

Pros:

What I like most about Excel is the ability to organize large amounts of data in spreadsheets and charts. With organized data, it is much easier to analyze, especially when it is used to create graphs and other visual data representations. In second place, the thing that I like most is that Excel processes data quickly, making mass calculations much easier than solving them on your own with a calculator. Excel also has formulas and equations that are used to quickly calculate simple and complex equations using large amounts of data. and finally, Excel is considered the standard for spreadsheet software and, for that reason, it enjoys support on almost all platforms, including smartphones and tablets. Most other spreadsheet programs also support importing Excel sheets into their original formats and exporting their own spreadsheets as Excel files.

Cons:

One of the disadvantages according to my opinion is that if it is true that almost anyone can choose Excel and start using it, getting the maximum benefit from its features requires a lot of practice. People who ignore the Excel syntax can also find errors in calculations and call other functions that have nothing to do with what you want. Second of the disadvantages I think that although Excel's automatic calculation functions simplify most of the calculations on a larger scale it is also true that Excel has no means to verify human errors during data entry, which means that Incorrect information can damage all results and finally entering data manually in Excel can take a long time, mainly if you have a lot of data to enter. The amount of time it takes to enter data manually can be quite long.