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Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel Overview:
What Is Microsoft Excel?
Microsoft Excel is a productivity tool for creating spreadsheets, and for performing statistics and analysis. It features over 100 functions and more than 235 built-in formulas, 1D and 2D charting, pivot tables for cross-tabulation analysis, multiple worksheets, mail merge capabilities and macros. Use Excel to analyze data and reports in order to discover patterns, trends and gain new insights. With a robust set of tools, you'll be able to create, format and share spreadsheets without difficulty. This application comes with a multitude of slots for storage and types of storage, including audio files and word processors. It also has many different functions, which allow the user to do a large range of tasks.
Who Uses Microsoft Excel?
Designed for businesses of all sizes, it is a spreadsheet solution that helps manage and organize data using templates, perform calculations, create analytical charts, and more.
Where can Microsoft Excel be deployed?
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- Microsoft
- Located in Redmond, US
- Founded in 1975
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- Phone Support
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- English
- Finnish
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- German
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Irish
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- Norwegian
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Nkosingiphile
Design in South Africa
Apparel & Fashion, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
"Microsoft excel"
31 July 2024
Being completely honest it's the best so far❤️
Pros:
performing calculations and filtering and getting insights from organized data
Cons:
Array formulas have been kinda sick and scary
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Lionne
Manager in South Africa
Construction, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
"Excel is Great"
09 April 2024
Overall excel is an excellent account product that you can use daily in your business
Pros:
Very user friendly from scholars to employees.
Cons:
Need to work on excel every day to get better understanding
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Cindy
Owner in South Africa
Verified LinkedIn User
Marketing & Advertising, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
"Excel Review"
10 November 2019
My overall experience with Excel software has been mixed. On the one hand it is very smart software and good at keeping track of expenditures and keeping book of finances provided I fill it in correctly. On the other hand I make mistakes with Excel software all the time and consequently it works my formulas out wrong until I can find the mistake within my own data that I had inputted. It has a learning curve and until you find the time to master it properly it will frustrate to some degree.
Pros:
What I like most about using Excel software is that it carries all of the weight of your business finances in one neat form. This software is brilliant at doing the math for you when it comes to putting your staff payments in an orderly fashion and in categorizing different dates, months, expenditures and even working out weekly budgets for your business.
Cons:
What I like least about using Excel software is that it is difficult to use. It is hard to understand and to come to grips with when you are using it for the first few times. Even longer sometimes if you do not use the software that often. You will need to watch a few self help videos beforehand and even read a few tutorials in order to use this software at first but the capabilities that Excel has once understood and if taught correctly is vast. This software can do so much for your business.
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Roger
Owner in Canada
Verified LinkedIn User
Marketing & Advertising, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
"Powerful tool for data and analysis"
11 January 2026
New
Overall my experience is excellent. It is one of my main tools for data analysis and reporting at work.
Pros:
Excel is very powerful. I like the advanced formulas, data analysis, and flexibility for complex reports. The price also is very affordable.
Cons:
It has a learning curve. Some features are not very intuitive at the beginning, but using AI Copilot nowadays could help.
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Rachid
Director in Netherlands
Verified LinkedIn User
Real Estate, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
"Excel, a way of life"
15 December 2025
New
Great have been using it for more than 10 years. You can almost do anything in Excel, especially if your pair it with PowerBI.
Pros:
Great value for money, customer support is not relevant as you do not use more than enough to find online. Navigation is very natural. Finding a bug in Excel is near impossible.
Cons:
It does not work well on mobile devices. Also on Mac there is limited availability of all the functionalities you will find on Windows. For me this limits my use, especially in combination with PowerBI and templates.
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