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Microsoft Excel Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.9 out of 10
Score
8.9 out of 10

Reviews

78 Reviews

best app for importing and exporting data from different website databases and apps.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Excel is used to import and export spreadsheets for internal and external use. Integration with Google docs and drupal cms is intuitive.

Pros

  • Useful for exporting and importing data from different apps
  • Easy to learn with Youtube tutorials
  • No issues with version control, sharing in emails or file corruption.
  • Best when paired with Microsoft PowerBI.

Cons

  • VIookup and pivot tables are hard to learn at first, but youtube tutorials easily explain the tool.
  • Creation of Pie charts is glitchy and hard to read even with reformatting
  • best paired with Powerbi for clean data visualizations, charts, maps, etc

Likelihood to Recommend

useful for cross referencing data and analysis at a glance. Not easy to create graphs that are presentation ready, so it's best to integrate with PowerBi or Powerpoint app.

VU
Verified User
Professional (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Microsoft Excel
20 years of experience

Best Platform to track maintain your recruitment data

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Being as recruiter, Excel Analyzer is helping us to maintain and track our candidate data and hiring & recruitment needs. We are organizing and sorting our candidate data via Excel such us interview score, application status, recruitment activity etc.

Pros

  • Making hiring process faster
  • Easily to maintain & track recruitment data

Cons

  • none so far

Likelihood to Recommend

we have a thousand of applicants across multiple job openings so by using Excel Analyzer we are able to find duplicate entries, missing data and hiring metrics like cost/hire however the only thing is not there to automatically match resume with job description but that is fine for us as we have a ATS tool for that.

VK
Vivek Kumar Rai
Sr. Recruiter in Human Resources at Pinnacle Technology (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Microsoft Excel
5 years of experience
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Love Microsoft Excel

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Excel multiple times a week to keep track of sales, subscriptions, records, and more. The spreadsheets also allow me to keep track of our webinars and seminars by allowing multiple pages at the bottom. This way I can use the same templates and just copy it for every webinar or seminar we do. I also use it to create checklists for customers.

Pros

  • Formulas
  • Sorting and Separating
  • Clean Use
  • Visual Aspects like Graphs
  • Sharing Live

Cons

  • Explaining Use of all Different Graphics
  • Charts
  • Templates
  • Better Explanation of all the Forumlas

Likelihood to Recommend

Excel is best suited for numbers in my opinion. It makes it so easy to figure out pricing for products. Also for our specific field being able to find income potential based of dental prices. Also for dentists being able to use formulas in order to figure out years for a retirement.

AM
Aubrey Moore
Administrator at KLAS Solutions (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Microsoft Excel
5 years of experience

Best Data Management Tool for Tracking

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been utilizing Excel Spreadsheets to maintain and manage our candidates and recruitment data from initial sourcing to onboarding. This has been instrumental in ensuring easy verification of candidate details, tracking overall recruitment performance—both at the recruiter and client level—and efficiently monitoring job progress. Additionally, our Excel-based system helps us prevent duplicate profiles or shortlisted candidates, ensuring a streamlined hiring process. We continuously update client data to analyze our performance metrics, identify gaps, and determine areas for improvement.

Pros

  • Candidates & Client Data Managment
  • Quick Tracking to ensure that how we can meet the client SLA
  • OfCourse for performance analysis for both company & team

Likelihood to Recommend

We had a situation where our client score card was not satisfactory due to SLA issue however when we checked our data into Excel Analyzer and we found most of requisitions were keep reopening again & again and that was hitting to our SLA score. We raised this concern to our client, and they agreed on the mistake on the score card and shared an updated one with achieving the SLA timely.

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Von Varun Pasan
Sr. Account Manager in Human Resources at Pinnacle Technology (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Microsoft Excel
5 years of experience
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Easy to Use

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We using the Excel Analyzer to manage, analyze, and interpret large amounts of data of the compony like to maintain employs data, candidates data and other works like to manage job openings and closed jobs. It is also helpful to track the record of all data, filtering the data according to our use and also helpful to analyze the work.

Pros

  • Use Excel Analyzer to track employee assignments
  • Use Excel Analyzer to track employee performance
  • Use Excel Analyzer to compare employee salaries

Cons

  • To see more built-in interactive features although all current features are enough.
  • they incorporate more automated data cleaning tools that is impressive.
  • They already collaborate with other tools to make our work easy.

Likelihood to Recommend

To keeping track of your personal budget or a small business’s expenses, Excel Analyzer is good. It is easy to use to to keep track of employee hours, pay, or performance. it also heled to clean and manage the messy data. It also help to analyze live data that updates constantly. it is very helpful to organizing, calculating, and visualizing all the data of our compony.

RS
Rajat Singh Raghav
Sr. Technical Recruiter in Human Resources at NR Consulting (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Microsoft Excel
1 year of experience
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Microsoft Excel - Tool for small business management and Complex statistical analysis

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

in our org, we use Microsoft Excel to register day-to-day data. We do not have a official data warehouse or something, and we use Microsoft Excel to store any additional data external from our systems. We also use it to make diverse caculations, specifically to run some financial simulations and to programatically manipulate data using built-in power query

Pros

  • Automations
  • Built-in Power Query
  • Advanced math calculations
  • Wide range of formulas

Cons

  • Memory Usage
  • Multiple Spreadsheet Conections
  • Binding Data to Charts
  • Chart customization

Likelihood to Recommend

Well, Microsoft Excel is perfect for small business scenarios. for example, They can easily create a spreadsheet to log daily sales, use formulas to calculate monthly totals, and generate simple charts to visualize sales trends. This allows them to quickly identify top-selling products and areas where they can cut costs. Financial modeling for ad-hoc is also a thing, although I don't usually use it this way now, when the small business grows, it can be tricky to manage large volumes of data. Starting on a few thousand rows, Microsoft Excel starts to get slower, until it reaches a point where you can't even use it. Then you'll want to migrate your data over to a Database or a data warehouse

MV
Marcos Vinícius Costa de Carvalho
Business Analytics Analist in Human Resources at ACE (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Microsoft Excel
6 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

Excel a Great Versatile Program

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Excel for our price books, keeping track of issues with inventory, quick look bank register, tracking information, and list for mail merges, to name just some of the ways we use Microsoft Excel.

Pros

  • Sorting
  • Table Creation
  • Summing and Formulus
  • Linking Excel spreadsheets to other Excel Spreadsheets

Cons

  • Header and Footer - adding graphics and appearing on different locations on odd and even pages
  • Changing page number in the Footer
  • Sorting data
  • Finding the correct formula to use

Likelihood to Recommend

Excel is easy to use for the most part. The majority of the businesses use it. It's relatively easy to create a new spreadsheet. Once you start using it, creating a new spreadsheet becomes second nature.

EB
Ed Bremer II
Controller in Finance and Accounting at Weckesser Brick Co., Inc. (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Microsoft Excel
36 years of experience

Microsoft Excel is the most known and widely used data application

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a spreadsheet application, we use Microsoft Excel to share finance data, pivot table reports, perform market data calculations and analysis, or simply keep track of an action list or goal setting. Microsoft Excel is used for both numbers and text (data) storage, cleaning, calculating, using built-in formula's and collaboration with other colleagues using the Microsoft 365 suite such as Sharepoint and Teams.

Pros

  • Build and track action lists
  • Clean, sort, report data using tables and graphs
  • Integrated with M365 suite (Teams, Sharepoint, Powerpoint embedding)
  • Well known, understood and used by many colleagues

Cons

  • Formula usage is not very easy if you don't know the name of it
  • Graph creation can be repetitive as you need to set them up and format them individually
  • Pivot tables are very handy, but requires good, segmented and cleaned data first.
  • GenAI could be useful to predict analysis, graphs or reporting needs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Excel is the number one tool used for data collection, analysis and reporting. If often starts with Microsoft Excel, before moving into a reporting tool such as PowerBI. Microsoft Excel is also great for keeping track of tables with text, such as action lists, meeting minutes, or key priorities. It's easy to sort and filter. Microsoft Excel is less convenient for online presentations, it's not that easy/intuitive to learn to work with, and the world of plugins/add-ons/add-ins can be confusing.

VU
Verified User
Manager in Marketing (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Microsoft Excel
20 years of experience

Microsoft Excel

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spreadsheets are essential to so many things we do. Organizing product details, department goals, schedules, etc. With tens of thousands of products from various categories at various stages of production, Excel allows us to house all that data and track important information that’s relevant to almost all our teams. The formulas and the sorting functionalities are really where it shines, I can’t imagine work without spreadsheets.

Pros

  • Summing sales data
  • Calculating percentages
  • Working collaboratively

Cons

  • Dragging and dropping
  • Easy automation
  • Aesthetic improvements

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Excel is best for sorting large amounts of data points. Think of client databases, where you might have separate fields for first name, last name, phone number, company, address, sales rep, product interest, etc it’s easy to store those data points together or sort by them. Same for product info, like price, release schedule, product category etc. my preference will always be Google Sheets however, as the interface in Sheets is faster, smoother, and more aesthetically pleasing.

MR
Mitchell Resk
Marketing Associate in Marketing at WizKids (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Microsoft Excel
15 years of experience
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A Multifunctional Tool for Organizing Data

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I mostly use Excel for reporting and exporting data from Qualtrics or other survey services. I also use Excel for categorizing and auditing webpages and contact information sheets, sorting member lists by various cells and converting worksheets into PDFs to share with clients. I also use Excel to create budget sheets for our projects and am learning to do more extensive types of formulas to create advanced budgets. Many of our staff use Excel to create and sort mailing lists for use with our newsletter, as well.

Pros

  • Sort mailing and contact lists
  • Financial jobs such as budgets
  • Store data with the ability to sort
  • Help manage projects
  • Track expenses for business functions
  • Organize event needs

Cons

  • I'm still struggling with learning pivot tables
  • There are a lot of formulas to learn so would be good to have more examples
  • More templates for other types of projects and uncommon uses would be helpful
  • Work well off mobile

Likelihood to Recommend

I don't really know another program as powerful as Excel. I've used Google Doc programs but do not feel they come close. So far, anytime I've needed a table of some sort for data, whether it's budget oriented or information off a survey, the best system has been Excel. We do web audits on occasion and we create an Excel worksheet featuring every URL of the pages we're auditing, notes, data about the content, information about files attached to the page and other information to help us determine what pages need updating, deleting or otherwise. We also use Excel primarily to export our Google Analytics to in order for us to create reports for clients that need to see specific information about their traffic.

VU
Verified User
Employee (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Microsoft Excel
15 years of experience