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Microsoft Excel pricing
Microsoft Excel has a free version and does not offer a free trial. Microsoft Excel paid version starts at US$6.00/month.
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Microsoft Excel Reviews
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- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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The industry standard
Honestly, I love Excel. The truth is, once you unlock the various features there is very little you can't do. For fun I've created a dynamic resume', a slide presentation and even a couple of games inside Excel just to see if I could.
Pros
Excel's greatest value is its ability to be many things for many people. I would say 90% of the people I've seen use Excel only use about 10% of its capabilities, and it's great for that. People are making quick budgets, schedules, to-do lists and even recipes books with excel and don't need many "pro" features for that.
Then there are the people who use it for contact management and data-processing, I've even seen an Excel instance that used extensive scripting to handle CRM, inventory and mail-merge marketing. I don't suggest it, but if you really want to get into it, it's very possible.
I'd say the greatest advantage of using Excel is that it's the industry standard for spreadsheets. If send someone an excel sheet you can bet that they will have a way to open it.
Cons
For cons, it does annoy me a bit that the Mac version isn't nearly as good as the Windows version. It's not surprising, of course, but it is annoying. I use Excel on different platforms and operating systems and the difference is striking.
Also, if you do plan on getting in the weeds with excel for business intelligence and data processing, you can literally spend years studying ti and getting proficient with the all of the capabilities.
And finally, it can be a huge processor hog and slow down everything else on your computer if you aren't careful. Even a simple spreadsheet with a simple formula involving whole columns can suddenly bring a stop to your workday.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Microsoft Excel Review: The Spreadsheet Powerhouse
My ability to use Excel to address challenges relates to efficiency and developing sheets depending on monthly revenue. I've gained a lot of knowledge about producing totals thus far.
Pros
Microsoft Excel is a powerful and flexible spreadsheet application that provides guidance for initiating projects from the ground up and performing tasks at an advanced level.Excel can automate complex calculations, so you don't need to hire extra staff to do them.
Cons
Excel's stability can be compromised when incorporating certain document formats. As file sizes increase, Excel's performance deteriorates, leading to frequent crashes. Complex workbooks with numerous tabs, macros, and embedded files are particularly susceptible to crashing

- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Well, it's an option
A tolerant level of frustration, like accepting your parents or siblings because they're your only family, but they irritate you to no end. It's there and it's all you got because Google cloud apps are blocked by your law firm.
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.

- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The software for managing your data, calculations, and analyses.
Excel is a calculation and management software that I highly recommend, especially for businesses. I have been using it for at least 2 years, and I believe it is the best software that Microsoft has offered.
Pros
Excel is considered one of the best software for management, and I particularly enjoy the built-in formulas and functions that allow me to perform complex calculations and analyses quickly. The formulas can handle arithmetic operations, statistics, filtering, and even graphing.
Cons
From my point of view, Excel doesn't have any drawbacks but rather several advantages. It allows for task automation and the development of custom applications, and it even integrates with other Office applications.
- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Microsoft Excel The Analytical Work Companion
This scheduler Excel was behind my success in the field of analysis in terms of accurate calculation and also an amazing graphical representation for easy understanding of the studies. I recommend it and I am certain that it is the best for analysts.
Pros
What I like about Excel is the mathematical algorithm it contains for arranging and organizing the analyzes to work
Cons
Maybe some complications in modifying the numbers after calculation