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Microsoft Excel

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What is Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application available as part of Microsoft 365 (Office 365), or standalone, in cloud-based and on-premise editions.

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Pricing

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Excel with Microsoft 365

$6.99

Cloud
per month

Excel for 1 PC or Mac

$139.99

On Premise
perpetual license

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.microsoft.com/en…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $6.99 per month
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Product Demos

Barcode Add-In for Microsoft Excel

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Product Details

What is Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft Excel Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone

Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application available as part of Microsoft 365 (Office 365), or standalone, in cloud-based and on-premise editions.

Microsoft Excel starts at $6.99.

The most common users of Microsoft Excel are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My purpose for using Microsoft Excel is to collate data and find trends related financial industry. Microsoft Excel makes it easier to enable formulas that best suit my needs without me being concerned about them, which allows the data to be accurate and precise. Moreover, Microsoft Excel also enables you to smoothly use different methods or represent the collated data in order to give readers an opportunity to understand the trend behind the numbers.
  • Sorting
  • Visuals through charts, tables, etc.
  • User-friendly
  • To run multiple checks simultaneously.
  • Speed
  • Allowing secured but easier way to import third-party data.
As a reporter, Microsoft Excel is user-friendly and smoothes the process of collating, sorting, and graphical representation of data, which allows us to use it to understand the trends of the industry and ensure that readers are also able to understand the data from a layman point of view. Microsoft Excel is not only well-suited for experts but also for a beginner trying to use data for their respective purposes.
  • Subscription fee
  • Is used primarily in every other office which makes it easier for different businesses to share data without much hassle.
  • License makes it authentic
Microsoft Excel stands out amongst its peers for the service they provide and with every latest update, they tend to ensure that even the minor issues impacting their users are managed to make the software efficient for people like me to use. The software's user-friendly experience along with easy-to-use formulas makes it better than its competitors in my opinion.
Muhammad Waleed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have been working for the past 7 years and no matter the organization or industry, Microsoft Excel is being used for data collection, data analysis, financial reporting and etc. Its built-in formulas and functions make it super easy and convenient and saves a lot of time. Microsoft Excel also makes it very easy to analyze data with its line charts, bar charts and other options of data visualizations however, it's not so good with more detailed analysis.
  • Data Collection
  • Data analysis
  • Data filtering
  • Built-in formulas for calculations
  • Copying data from one sheet to another
  • Formulas and functions should be explained properly
  • Hard to integrate with third party applications
Microsoft Excel is great for data collection and making spreadsheets. Its very well suited for small data sets and for a quick analysis of that data. Its built-in bar charts, pie charts and etc. makes it very convenient to report the data and analyze it. However, if you have large data sets to work with, extra care is needed since the chance of error grows.
  • Better reporting. Gives an idea of where the trend is going
  • Positive impact on financial analysis
  • Time saving and reduced man power
Microsoft Excel is very easy to use and very very user friendly. While Google Sheets is also very simple, Microsoft Excel takes the lead when it comes to reporting and analysis with its different types of charts (line, pie, bar etc.). The only reason to use Google Sheets against Microsoft Excel is because Google Sheets is free.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Excel is used as the common tool across groups for communicating any data sets that may need to be adjusted or modeled. It allows for easy collaboration and error checking, as well as revision tracking. It's easy to add conditional formatting or clean up tables for presentations of various data or graphs. Excel runs a group of basic stats on just about any group of data that are insightful when using larger data sets.
  • Modeling data
  • Creating basic drafts
  • Creating tables
  • Easy integration with third party apps
  • Limitation on large data sets
  • Help topics don't always address issues; often have to search the web
Great for quick analysis of data sets, easy to create formatting for presentations, macros allow for automation of repetitive tasks. Not good for very large sets of data (years of company data, tons of records). Pivots and pivot graphs allow for quick insights on data and many different ways of visualizing the data such that others can see the insights as well.
  • Excel is critical to our business. Productivity is easily enhanced 10% across the org.
  • There is not really a good alternative spreadsheet for large sets of data
  • Excel integrates more easily than many other apps, esp. with other MS products
Excel is easier to use with one-off data sets, if data needs to be reported on a continual basis, PowerBI is great to use for repetitive reporting. PowerBI is great for custom visualizations, but it's easier in Excel to create quick graphs and pivot tables and pivot charts on data when working with teams to find initial insights.
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