Easy to use, fully featured spreadsheet solution
November 26, 2021

Easy to use, fully featured spreadsheet solution

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Excel

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.
  • Ease of use
  • Wide range of capabilities and functions
  • Helpful autocomplete functions
  • Helpful formula auditing tools
  • [The] cloud version sometimes hangs up for unknown reasons.
  • "Look and feel" occasionally changed by updates.
  • Capabilities can be overwhelming.
  • Ability to rapidly model "what-if" accelerates decision making.
  • Productivity improvement over alternatives is 4x or more.
  • Tax modeling improved net profitability.
We prefer [Microsoft] Excel because it integrates with other Microsoft applications we use and our employees are more familiar with it. We also find it to have vastly more capabilities in areas such as graphics, functions, formatting, statistical and analytical tools. We need to standardize on a single product so we choose Excel.

Do you think Microsoft Excel delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Excel's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Excel live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Excel go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Excel again?

Yes

[Microsoft] Excel is great for quick spreadsheet application development, especially for a single user. Great for combining data and graphic presentations, modeling, forecasting and analysis. As with any spreadsheet program, it can be difficult to pick up a complex application from another developer, and it [Microsoft Excel] does not have the level of accounting control in a formal accounting system.