It's easy to use, anyone has the capability to use. You basically can watch your data come to life. It's a wonderful addition to any project, meeting or personal life to use. It adds more to the presentations. It also helps your audience visualize what point you are trying to make. You can customize any chart to your needs. You can make your project/presentation unique and tailored to you. You're not stuck using clip art things or standard shapes, you can change it to how you want it.

It is helpful to catch attention of the spectators and colleagues present and add life to the boring presentations. Animation effect in chart and graphs not only eye catching but helpful to highlight important stats and figures in chart.

Excel is very easy to use and navigate, the charting abilities are basic and easy to produce bar/line/circle graphing for financial reporting visuals that I use in my day to day.