Microsoft Excel

Pros

It is so versatile. I use it instead of Calculator as I can easily see what I am calculating. I have made a simple payroll system with it and have used it for many weekly tax calculations. Calculating using fields from other pages is fantastic. Really anything you need to do with accounting can be done with it.

Cons

Two things if you don't have it free with your computer then you have to buy it and it can be kind of expensive and if you want to be able to collaborate and make on the fly changes with others then you need office 365 and you have to pay monthly you can never own it.

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Pros

Microsoft Excel is the best tool for tables and data management and visualization. I like the user interface, actually, I like the user interface of all Microsoft products it is easy to use and easy to access all functions and features. Excel is a very strong application dealing with data and tables that can deal with huge numbers of data easily and can manage huge data easily without much effort and time.

Cons

Excel has many and many features and functions and the user may need a lot of time to learn Excel. Also, there are some important functions that do not exist in Excel and you have to use a third-party application to use these functions, I hope in future updates they could add those functions as built-in in Excel.

Pros

The pros are thin on this software. I'll list them by number.

1. The software is over 20 years old and has been refined and recreated numerous times over that period.
2. It makes creating lists very easy when copying and pasting information from tables on web forms. It intuitively pastes tables by column and row quite accurately 99% of the time and enables you to take one column as a list and paste it anywhere else. This utility reduces the tedium of quickly conveying information to co-workers considerably.
3. The ability to import data by comma or tab delimited text files is also exceedingly powerful in reducing time spent listing or reporting on specific items in a format that is not conducive to pasting into a table, or perhaps powershell script derived data outputted to a comma delimited text file. As a computer engineer, this takes hours and hours of time and compresses it into minutes.
4. The formulas, while available on Google or other spreadsheets, are also good pros and help with calculating anything you need to do in terms of math from other columns, in my case and in short, capacity and utilization percentages of storage devices on hand.

Cons

What I like least are the frustrating things, and while few, these really irk me and stand out as a problem, especially in creating reports for people using the formulas, math and functions that spreadsheets are best known for. Case in point: The ability to copy and paste just the function into another spreadsheet that is open. It simply does not work unless you tab out of the existing cell and this is because, annoyingly, separate files, completely separate Excel spreadsheets, all act as if they're part of the same file. If I have one spreadsheet xlsx file open and a separate one open where I'm copying and pasting pertinent data from one to the other, it acts as if I'm in the same spreadsheet and the behavior is inexplicably wonky and unusable. I just want to copy the formula plain text as is into the cell of another spreadsheet because I want to use that same math for data related to other irrelevant items. Google Sheets does not do this at all. Maybe this was something Accountants wanted for some crazy reason that I'll never encounter as an engineer. But this is obnoxious and makes me scream at the computer often.

The other con is that I do not like the non-intuitive UI and clunky way to simply save files. It pushes One Drive, and pushes it hard like non stop telemarketing calls. Also, I just prefer the old way to save files. Call me old fashioned but it was simple. I don't need the whole screen to change when cling the file tab.

Pros

Excel is a tool that it is used every day and facilitates your work. For calculations, graphs, tables, data analysis, visual dashboards. For a company to grow you need to monitor progress by using KPI and KBI metrics. This tool will facilitate the metrics actualization by a having a data base that multiple people can have access to them. You choose which fields can be edited and which cannot. Fir dashboards is excellent.

Cons

Everyday I have something new to learn since it have a-lot of capabilities, but sometimes you need to know the correct formula

Pros

I took a class to learn Excel 20 years ago. The product meets my needs and allows me full control over data input, design and reports. It’s a blank slate and my favorite Microsoft product. I use it in my personal business and my 8-5 job daily.

Cons

It is hard for a beginner to use at first. However, there are guides and videos online that are easy to follow and pick up. You get out what you put in.