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Microsoft Excel
What Is Microsoft Excel?
Microsoft Excel is a productivity tool for creating spreadsheets, and for performing statistics and analysis. It features over 100 functions and more than 235 built-in formulas, 1D and 2D charting, pivot tables for cross-tabulation analysis, multiple worksheets, mail merge capabilities and macros. Use Excel to analyze data and reports in order to discover patterns, trends and gain new insights. With a robust set of tools, you'll be able to create, format and share spreadsheets without difficulty. This application comes with a multitude of slots for storage and types of storage, including audio files and word processors. It also has many different functions, which allow the user to do a large range of tasks.
Who Uses Microsoft Excel?
Designed for businesses of all sizes, it is a spreadsheet solution that helps manage and organize data using templates, perform calculations, create analytical charts, and more.
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Reviews of Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel Review
Comments: Overall it is a very positive experience
Pros:
The functionality is strong, i chose it of numbers in the mac environment and in the PC work environment is is really the best choice for workbooks. It also works seemlessly (mostly) in the full office suite so moving between it, PPT and Word for reporting and presentations allows me to keep my excel work product in tact with one point of review and adjustment when required
Cons:
it can crash in large formula design i have lost work previously when cells with large functions just stop working - if it gets to complex the file sizes get overwhelming, which can make multi workbook analysis problematic
Microsoft Excellent
Comments: My overall experience with Microsoft Excel has been extremely positive. It has allowed me to create job total cost sheets and track individual job profits with ease and also saves time. It is also very convenient that it is integrated into other programs that I use, such as Quickbooks Online where I can export lists and reports to create my excel sheets. This has been a life-saver at work and I know I have only just touched the surface of the available features this program has to offer.
Pros:
Microsoft Excel is an astounding program that has so many useful charting features to keep my work organized and my progress clearly laid out. I like the sheer magnitude of options this program allows you to use to create custom sheets.
Cons:
The only thing I can think of that I like least about Excel is just that I occasionally run out of memory when I have multiple large files open and working on at once.
Excel Exclusion
Comments: I guess my overall experience with Microsoft Excel with short lived because I could use a similar product and Achieve what I needed for my work
Pros:
I first purchased Microsoft Excel a year ago It was part of the Microsoft 365 package I like how I could organize and use it for my volunteer work
Cons:
I guess the least thing I don't like about Excel it was not really user friendly and I had to pay for it when I could use another similar product that didn't cost anything
Easy, beginner friendly and powerful
Comments: It is beginner-friendly. This tool would be the first step in getting familiar with data analysis. But it can't do powerful complex processing but works well for daily tasks and small datasets.
Pros:
Its interface is one of the best. It is not very overwhelming, I have been using this since I was in school and even back then I had no issue using it. It's recent Python integration has been good so far. The best part is that it automatically suggests to me the best graphs, charts, and pivot tables for data analytics and past saved formats. It really is a great beginner tool and a one-stop solution. It has become a tool I go to for most of the things.
Cons:
It really lags and even freezes in cases of large datasets. Even with VBA, it still needs improvement. It is a little bit basic when you compare it to other data visualization tools.
Very useful
Comments: A very useful tool to use for many different calculations with the ability to protect certain parts from errors
Pros:
It is possible to do many calculations that you would have tjought were impossible to do automatically
Cons:
Some of the calculations are very complicated and it can take a while to get to grips with it
