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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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How to Create MIS Report in excel | Impressive and Interactive MIS Report In Excel | Simplilearn

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Excel 2016 - MOS Certification Exam - Microsoft Office Specialist Test - Core Testing Practice in MS

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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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Reviews and Ratings

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Brijesh Jaiswal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Excel has helped me manage financial reports for decades now. Over the years, newer editions with additional functions and tools have only improved its speed and performance. It is a gold standard to me when it comes to spreadsheets and its nearest competitor still way behind Microsoft Excel.
Josh Dempsey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Microsoft Excel as our spreadsheet software across the organisation, from Finance to our science teams. It is primarily used to bring data to life and there are a number of data visualization options which make this a reality. In my opinion, the formulaic basis from which the application is built upon is perfect and easy to learn/apply meaning that minimal training is required.
Rahul Badgujar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Microsoft Excel a lot to construct financial models and valuation sheets for numerous companies as an analyst for a Special Situation Advisor firm and a university student. I can properly and effectively input and analyze financial data using Excel, which helps me make decisions regarding investments, mergers and acquisitions, and other financial decisions. My ability to simulate various scenarios and forecast possible outcomes is made possible by its modeling features. It addresses the issue of data presentation. Powerful visualization capabilities in Excel, such charts and graphs, enable businesses to show data in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and simple to comprehend. This can be especially helpful when presenting or reporting to customers or stakeholders. Overall, Excel has developed into a vital tool in my career and studies, offering a wide range of features that may be used in a variety of situations.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Excel is a widely used software within the financial sector. As my organisation specialises in insolvency and bankruptcy, conducting investigations into the financial data of both other organisations and individuals is essential. Often at times we receive data sets in Microsoft Excel formats; therefore it is widely used within our organisation for the recording and analysis of financial data. Microsoft Excel is also a very flexible software, which is highly beneficial with the handling of data across the multiple industries we may encounter in corporate insolvency. Additionally, this flexbility allows Microsoft Excel to be used internally within the firm for tracking & productivity, budgeting, etc. Overall, Microsoft Excel has the flexibility and depth in capability to be widely used within the organisation to meet the internal and external demands on the work and services that we provide.
Mohamed Adil Shaikh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As a Inventory professional Excel is the most important tool for me. I have use different ERPs and Inventory management software. As a main database of company, security features of ERPS are more strict, access are limited and allows only to work with predesigned forms and reports. Great thing is Excel are compatible with almost all and export/import data to excel is very easy. It is always comfortable to retrieve data in excel to process further as required. Excel provide plenty of valuable functions and formulas to analyse and summarise data. Filter, Sort and calculations are very easy in excel, VLOOKUP, Sumifs and index-match function are very useful to handle large Inventory data. We completely depend on Excel to process large data on the time of year end stock taking and cycle count. Excel itself capable of handling inventory management, ideal for small businesses as low cost alternative.
Shehroz Akram | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software that we are using in our daily routine in our professional life, [the] scope of its usage is across the organization. The purpose of the usage of [Microsoft] Excel is to maintain records through data entry, perform basic and advance level analysis, comparison of data, show depiction by using charts and graphs that show valuable results.
Gary Ceder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Mircosoft Excel for several reasons. In no particular order: Market & prospective client research, deal support & analysis, networking & outreaching efforts. I've found it helpful in my new lead generation/business development efforts, as well in educating my clients on how to make more well-informed financial decisions. The ability to display side-by-side comparisons, for example, on a summary page, as well as show incredible details with respect to deal terms on subsequent pages (if the client is interested) are both very helpful to my business as a tenant-rep office leasing broker.
Angel Monjarás | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use it for everyday work, like calculating proposals and business cases or preparing small custom reports. I have some workbooks set up to use as templates, and I copy them for each new project.
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I used Microsoft Excel for many uses and different purposes in my organization that covers both personal and work sides as it is used in spreadsheets, mathematical formulas, financial and accounting using and application, master data collection, dashboards, information reporting, project management/leadership usages like issue logs updating and tracking in addition to Tasks/Activities Description, Team members information, To-Do lists, and Actions/Execution plans.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Excel for data analysis, financial analysis, and to generate graphs for Board reports. We use pivot tables a lot to produce needed results for data reporting and also for payroll and benefits tracking for our various funding sources.
Sushant goyal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my organization excel is used for storing, processing, displaying data in an intuitive format. Various teams use it to store relevant data according to their need. As I am an analytics background I personally use it with lots of formulas and calculations, and the best part is I have automated various day-to-day tasks so that they can easily be handled without writing formulas again and again.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Excel to help build out data, interpret and analyze data, and present this information in a helpful way to our users. Microsoft Excel is a good tool to help with large amounts of data as it can easily be adjusted and formatted to fit your specific needs.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Excel gives our agency a great way to track approved continuing education courses, reconciling our company credit card transactions, and it helps create reports with ease from importing data from our database. The formulas help to customize exactly what data you would like to see or track in a way that no other software has been able to do.
Kristen Robinson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Microsoft Excel to track the expenses, sales, and profits of our business. We also use it for tracking lead generation efforts for the list building activities we participate in and the list building events that we host. Microsoft Excel makes it easy for everyone involved on the project to see what's been completed and what needs to be done.
Ahmed Abdelrhim | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Speed - The program helps me with the time factor like Making salaries for employees, attendance and departure, registration of the visit to the company's customers Account. The program helps to make account sheets for employees or customers and their accounts and company expenses because there are many mathematical equations and easy to use in the program
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.
March 16, 2022

good review!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Excel is very important in an organization, it allows you to run spreadsheets with a variety of formulas. The problem with excel is the level of difficulty, it is not an easy platform to learn how to use.
C.Eng (India) Kumar Bhanushali | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Currently in my organization I am using Microsoft Excel for creating and managing my data, this will help me and my organization to analyze the project during and after the completion of the same. Managing the track of the data in Excel is an easier way to keep it maintained.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Microsoft Excel daily in my organization as a Research and Development Consultant. Currently, it's our main software for data entry, analysis, graphing, and just general tracking of participants. Therefore, I use it for pretty much everything. For more complex analyses, we do use the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Excel is used in every aspect of the business. In the R&D group, we use Excel daily to analyze data and look for trends to drive experimental design & decision making. Graphical elements of Excel are used to communicate the same data to more senior managers. In the PMO, Excel and Pivot tables are used for resource management, to determine when resources are available or insufficient. Excel is used in the budget generation process, where more advanced functions are used to collate expense projections across cost accounts.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use [Microsoft] Excel for a wide variety of spreadsheet applications in accounting, finance, and tax. We use it for corporate consolidation, modeling and forecasting, analysis, and as an easy way to format figures for reporting. We also use it as a template for various forms like vouchers, expense reports, capital requests. We use it for less complex database applications, some statistical analysis, some graphics, and some data validation uses. In short, [there are] a very wide variety of solutions.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use MS Excel for data tracking and organization. We collect data on workshop enrollment, participation, feedback, ratings, and more. It helps us stay organized and to easily find and sort data.
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