There is a wealth of training resources on Microsoft 365 products available at the Microsoft website (Image credit: Microsoft Excel) The competition With charts, conditional formatting, pivot tables, pictures, shapes, icons, maps, sparklines, and SmartArt, you can create compelling representations of your data that accurately summarizes your calculations. Online spreadsheet software lacks this power and versatility.Įxcel has great data visualization tools too. With macros, you can extend this functionality almost indefinitely by writing your own VBA code. There are over 450 functions for manipulating and displaying data. As Excel makes better use of your computer’s processing power, it’s fast even when you are working with large sets of data and performing complex calculations.Īnother draw of Excel is its long list of built-in functions. Whereas Sheets can only handle around 5 million cells, in Excel, you can feasibly work with 17 billion cells.

But Excel allows you to process more data at a time than competitors like Google Sheets. With Microsoft Excel, you enter and manage data in the form of numbers, text, and graphics in a grid format, as you would with any spreadsheet. Limited online-only versions of the Microsoft Office apps are available at (Image credit: Microsoft) Microsoft Excel: Features

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