Microsoft Excel

Description

Microsoft Excel is a popular spreadsheet program that is part the Microsoft Office suite. It provides a powerful feature set for organizing, manipulating, and visualizing data.

Excel workbooks can be divided by tabbed worksheets. Each tab can be edited separately. Each worksheet has a two-dimensional grid of cells that can be formatted in many ways. Excel includes basic features, such as data sorting and simple formula creation, as well as advanced capabilities, such as pivot table reports and VBScript macro scripting. It provides document security and password protection to data within a workbook. Newer versions of Excel save workbooks in the Office Open XML (OOXML) .XLSX format, while older versions use the proprietary .XLS format.

Excel has many tools that help quickly analyze data. From data import features to automatic sorting, filtering, and pivot tables, users can take large external data sets and gather analyses quickly. You can manipulate data and compute the results with the extensive range of mathematical functions. Excel provides thousands of online templates available for download within the user interface. This gives users many different options for out-of-the-box styling, formatting, and mathematical computation, allowing them to focus on the data rather than extensive amounts of time on presentation. Home and business users can download financial templates to track income, expenses, transactions, and generate summary graphs.

The spreadsheet application also provides rich tools for visualizing data. Excel supports simple chart types such as bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, and scatter plots, as well as more complex ones for more in-depth analysis. These charts can be styled with a variety of visual options.

Microsoft Excel is a great tool for data management. Excel's ability organize and manipulate data quickly to create visualizations and perform statistical analyses will be appreciated by anyone using it, whether they are professional, academic, or personal. These reasons among others are what make Excel an industry standard application.

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