Microsoft Excel

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About Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application that lets you organize, analyze, and visualize data. It's part of the Microsoft 365 suite (with a free web version available) and runs on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

Excel is widely used for everything from simple budgeting to complex financial modeling — its formula engine supports thousands of functions across math, date/time, text, lookup, statistical, and logical categories.

Key features

  • Formulas and functions — over 475 built-in functions spanning math, finance, dates, text manipulation, lookups, statistics, and more.
  • PivotTables — summarize large datasets interactively without writing formulas.
  • Charts and graphs — visualize data with bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, scatter plots, and specialized chart types.
  • Conditional formatting — automatically highlight cells based on their values (data bars, color scales, icon sets).
  • Power Query — connect to and transform data from multiple sources (CSV, databases, web pages) without coding.

Platform availability

Excel runs natively on Windows and macOS as desktop applications, and is available as mobile apps for iOS and Android. The free Excel for the Web version works in any modern browser.

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