Microsoft Excel

Score8.9 out of 10

1,833 Reviews and Ratings

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Spreadsheet

Mohamed Adil Shaikh View profile

Process Data Engineer in Engineering at Shell (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My job is to handle data from the Site, validate and integrate the data correctly, and then update the same into a database like Oracle or SAP for further activities.

With the built-in functions and access to VBA, the task is automated, which eases our daily activity, and anyone can do analysis error-free.

Pros

Analysis
Automation
Data Handling

Cons

Pivot Charts Should be improved
Conditional formatting should be optimized (should not use large space)
VBA should have a proper code editor inbuilt
Should have options to work for large datasets

Return on Investment

Microsoft Excel should have around 50% of ROI

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Access and Google Sheets

Other Software Used

Google Sheets, Microsoft Access

Usability

Verified User

Professional (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Excel is used to import and export spreadsheets for internal and external use. Integration with Google docs and drupal cms is intuitive.

Pros

Useful for exporting and importing data from different apps
Easy to learn with Youtube tutorials
No issues with version control, sharing in emails or file corruption.
Best when paired with Microsoft PowerBI.

Cons

VIookup and pivot tables are hard to learn at first, but youtube tutorials easily explain the tool.
Creation of Pie charts is glitchy and hard to read even with reformatting
best paired with Powerbi for clean data visualizations, charts, maps, etc

Return on Investment

Microsoft Excel has been integral to data analysis that guides key decisions
Reliable. Old files are still available even after many years.
Sharing between Mac and Windows users is seamless.
The phone app is also available for a quick review of spreadsheets while the user is on the go.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Google Sheets

Aubrey Moore

Administrator at KLAS Solutions (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Excel multiple times a week to keep track of sales, subscriptions, records, and more. The spreadsheets also allow me to keep track of our webinars and seminars by allowing multiple pages at the bottom. This way I can use the same templates and just copy it for every webinar or seminar we do. I also use it to create checklists for customers.

Pros

Formulas
Sorting and Separating
Clean Use
Visual Aspects like Graphs
Sharing Live

Cons

Explaining Use of all Different Graphics
Charts
Templates
Better Explanation of all the Forumlas

Return on Investment

Lead Sorting
Organization
Subscription Management
Tracking

Usability

Other Software Used

Zoho Bookings, QuickBooks Online, Zoho Analytics

Vivek Kumar Rai View profile

Sr. Recruiter in Human Resources at Pinnacle Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Being as recruiter, Excel Analyzer is helping us to maintain and track our candidate data and hiring & recruitment needs. We are organizing and sorting our candidate data via Excel such us interview score, application status, recruitment activity etc.

Pros

Making hiring process faster
Easily to maintain & track recruitment data

Cons

none so far

Return on Investment

Only positive nothing negative so far

Usability

Other Software Used

Google Analytics, Google Sheets, Vonage Contact Center, Vonage Business Communications, Microsoft Teams, Ceipal ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter

Von Varun Pasan View profile

Sr. Account Manager in Human Resources at Pinnacle Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been utilizing Excel Spreadsheets to maintain and manage our candidates and recruitment data from initial sourcing to onboarding. This has been instrumental in ensuring easy verification of candidate details, tracking overall recruitment performance—both at the recruiter and client level—and efficiently monitoring job progress. Additionally, our Excel-based system helps us prevent duplicate profiles or shortlisted candidates, ensuring a streamlined hiring process. We continuously update client data to analyze our performance metrics, identify gaps, and determine areas for improvement.

Pros

Candidates & Client Data Managment
Quick Tracking to ensure that how we can meet the client SLA
OfCourse for performance analysis for both company & team

Return on Investment

Positive, it is really helping to maintain my client, my team as well as mine performance metrics and can easily identify where we need improvement.