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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

It can do so many things when you need to make calculations, spreadsheets or do something with accounting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

Not straightforward for novice users as can be complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reformatting contractor spreadsheets before issuing to clients and agencies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Microsoft Excel?

Office mobile apps give a familiar user interface optimized for use on your mobile devices. Review and edit documents at work, at home, or anywhere in between.

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Office mobile apps give a familiar user interface optimized for use on your mobile devices. Review and edit documents at work, at home, or anywhere in between.


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4.5 out of 5
"Web works but desktop is better!"
Excel works great for managing large amounts of data. The integration with Microsoft Forms is excellent. It is easy to track incoming data, manipul...
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5.0 out of 5
"Amazing tool for all kind of operations"
You can do everything on Excel, it's a must-master in today's working environment. You will save so much time with Excel. Can be coupled with Pow...
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"USing Excel makes my work easier"
Ease to add formulas, and VB programming.
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Kushagra G.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

Being an Excel user for decades now and using it in mostly everwhere. Excel became a life saviour for those who works with data regularly. As a employ with own business aside it helps me to cop up with both the datas. And makes it super easy to work with . The sorting, importing and integration with other softwares make it the best for data handeling. I used to integrate it with decisionrules, mailchimp and with many other softwares and the whole functioning is so smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

There is nothing to dislike about as its an important software to manage things and data, and if i have to find one then it will be it regualar updation of his interface which sometimes make it little hard and messy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Couldnt find any problem for specific, it been 8 years now working in excel and it only benefiting me and making day to day work more easier as it helps me with my data, not data, with my huge chunks of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akash R.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

Excel is very useful for storing small amounts of data. We can save data in many formats, such as CSV and others. I have been using it for the last 4 years, and it is easy to manipulate data using functions like Vlookup, Pivo Table & Power Query. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

What I dislike about Excel is that it has a limited number of rows and columns. We can't store large amounts of data in it otherwise it starts to lag and doesn't work properly. It is not suitable for storing big data, as large datasets come with big file sizes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used many other platforms for analyzing data, but I usually pull the output into Excel and Spreadsheets & share the file with stakeholders as a report. Most of the time, I use Excel to create reports, utilizing multiple sheets to store multiple tables and using lookup functions to reference the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Excel is an awesome tool for data analysis, visualisation and computations any office can't do without. It is simple, and has lots of amazing tutorials both free and paid on the internet. Pivoting, Data validation, vlookups etc are must have for one who works with numbers. Finance teams can't leave without it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

Performing spelling checking reviewing is cumbersome and may cause the final spreadsheet to have typo and grammar issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

I typically use Microsoft Excel to generate bulk posters for campaigns or projects through Canva. The process involves creating a spreadsheet (CSV file) with multiple variations of the poster content, where each row contains a unique message, headline, or other text elements for the posters. After preparing this CSV file, I upload it to Canva’s bulk creation feature, which automates the process of generating numerous posters at once. Canva automatically inserts the unique messages into pre-designed poster templates, creating a set of posters, each with different content but a consistent design.

This approach saves time and ensures consistency across a large number of posters, making it ideal for producing visuals for events, marketing campaigns, or educational materials. By using Excel for the initial data entry and Canva for the design, I can efficiently manage large-scale poster production with personalized or varied messaging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bharath R.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

excel the most usefull tool to get the formula to auto populate and using copilot it made so much ease of use and very powerfull tool to calculate and analysis and installation of application is also very easy and support from the Microsoft is on time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

as this is complex application which need little bit of knowledge or training to advance the use of the tool so it can give guideness or KT for using the excel for the begineers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

excel solve all my day to day probelm of analaysis the things and team tracker and my project tracker we still use MS excel as our primary application to solve all those usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jai S.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft Excel is the best software for numerical and statistical data analysis. The software is completely customizable; however, we should have good knowledge of coding for that. The best part of MS Excel are:

1. In-built tools for analysis,

2. Easy navigation,

3. Pivot table & Charts,

4. V-lookup & micros,

5. Fast Calculations,

6. Micros,

7. Status reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

It is difficult to find out any mistake in the complex formula.

Compatibility with other MIS software.

MS Excel is having better features than Google-spread sheets but is not that user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Excel:

Excel is the best spreadsheet available in terms of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using it daily in various departments like Daily Sales data, Customer Order status, Customer Service records, Store & material data & even in purchase department. formla like Vlookup & pivot is very helpfull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft excel has been a crucial tool for me for many years now. It helps me handling out complex tasks with speed and efficiency. Its user friendly interface and range of functions help in carrying out most challenging tasks very easily.

One of its remarkable development is MS Excel's integration with One Drive and Share point. This has significantly improved the way our department works with important documents especially for invoicing and marketing data management. For example, both the marketing and accounting teams can now access and update shared files at the same time, making sure that the information is always up to date and accessible. This has made our data management process significantly faster, smoother, and more efficient than ever before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

I dislike it when working with Large sheets, sometimes the system crashes or slows down. Also, it some times takes time for some team member to get used to use Share point and one drive effectively and managing permissions as to who can edit and who can only access can sometimes be tricky. Any mistake can lead to data issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Excel has streamlined my daily tasks and allowed me to complete various tasks in minutes what would have taken hours manually. For instance, using Pivot tables and VLOOKUP, I can quickly create detailed sales and performance reports that provide management with all the required information needed for decision making.

Also, with its integration with OneDrive and SharePoint has allowed all team members to collaborate on files in real time. This has eliminate the need to emailing files back and forth which has significantly reduced delays and making sure that everyone has immediate access to current data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

I like microsoft excel for its simple to use and hundle. It is more helpful for everywhere to us. Without excel we don't work on other softwares, because it requires for importing spreadsheet file to others software for data analysis so, we highly recommend microsoft excel. Needful for every time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

I have used this software from my all working. So I don't write on that's questions because I really like it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solved statistical hypothesis testing, regression method using formulas aa well as data analysis tool pack so it consuming time for perfect time. Complex statistical techniques hundle easily and gives appreciated and accurate results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Germán Andrés C.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

Excel has become a powerful tool and a required skill for almost any professional. I have used Excel workbooks in many business scenarios and you can easily create many solutions, it has many formulas and powerful features like Power Query and Power Pivot, besides VBA in case you have programming knowledge an requires specific operations. The Power Query feature allows you con integrate Excel with many file types and databases and as a data analyst this is gold. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

I can't think anything negative about Excel, maybe the online version lacks of any features of the desktop version, but besides that everything is right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Excel you can easily create data solutions, from complex statistical analysis to dasboards and even a small accounting or payrol system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

I do like the fact that it is widely used by many others within our industry making it accessable and translatable across many different users. Additionally the various mathamatical and logic functions are also great to have and help automate work for myself and others to input. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

I do wish that there were times that the formulas were a bit more explanatory. At times the formulas do not seem to make sense and experts need to be consulted or self help videos need to be reviewed to solve the issue on why certain logic paths/formulas aren't working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft excel can translate massive amounts of data and spit out certain critical percentages taking the many formats that are inputted. Excel is also part of the collaborative function/umbrella program that can be utlized with microsoft teams to allow multiple people to enter in data at the same time and see real results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

I like that I can creatge spreadsheets that help me keep track of my work and that make my work easier because I can easily refrence them for shortcuts. I am all about using this a helpful tool every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

I have not had an issues yet but again I know that customer support will help me if I ever need it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can create spreadsheets that help me keep track of my work. I can also create cheat sheets for freequently used items so I can jsut copy and paste as needed. I like to work smarter not harder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.