SpreadsheetSample
Excel
Microsoft
The spreadsheet almost everyone already has: charts, pivot tables and conditional formatting right next to the data.
Licence
Commercial
Built by
Business users
Languages
Formulas, Power Query, VBA
Runs on
Desktop, Excel for the web
Scores
Out of 5. The tick marks the average for spreadsheets in the library.
- Ease of use
- 5
- Visual control
- 3
- Interactivity
- 2
- Sharing
- 3
- Governance
- 2
- Low cost
- 4
- Data scale
- 1
Strengths
- Nearly universal: everyone can open the file
- Pivot tables and charts in a few clicks
- Power Query and Power Pivot for bigger jobs
Limitations
- A worksheet stops at 1,048,576 rows
- Manual refreshes and copies invite errors
- Weak governance and version control
Best for
- Quick one-off analysis
- Financial models and small datasets