Microsoft Excel vs Join It Comparison

I have found over the years that the ability to write a complicated formula once, and then have it just plain work over and over again, is a gift given to the workplace.

Multi core support could be better. I find sometimes refreshing data connections to take a little longer than they should if Excel was optimized better to use more of my hardware.

The best feature is that you can make several spreadsheets with many macros and graphics. The product is easy to use and once you get into it, you can do deeper analysis. The integration with existing business was very easy and the business loved it.

I think the feature that is difficult to use it the macros and the join with access as if the user does not know how tu use it, it's hard to learn by himself.

Excel is easy to use and acts as any other Microsoft product. It allows you to use it for your business to calculate formulas, create charts, and forms that are easy to use by others. You can add formulas to the spreadsheet to auto-calculate based on specific information entered. You can join 2 spreadsheets together and use vlookup to provide specific information for a company/client.

vlookup can seem cumbersome until you learn how to use it in excel.

The program helps you to realize any type of mathematical operation, graphs of results. With this program there can be demonstrated the advances that have had in a business plan the same ones change as only a number, or join several cells. The option of macros allows you to realize all kinds of automythical operation

The multifunctionality that has the program makes it complicated to use. It is necessary a previous knowledge to be able to realize macros in the program

In my opinion, Excel is the most powerful, robust, and best software of the Microsoft suite. It does it all! So many times you might be tempted to start a list in a Word document, but just think: if you type your list in Excel, now you can separate out cities from states (or join them together), you can alphabetize by last name (or first), you can filter out any Nos and quickly select your column to have it automatically count how many people RSVP'd YES or send the follow-up email just to the MAYBEs, you can with just a couple clicks create a pie chart showing the percentage of respondents are coming...it truly seems to do it all.

While Excel does enable you to hyperlink a cell, it doesn't let you hyperlink a particular word or phrase within a cell like you can in Word; certainly understandable, but would be convenient if you could.

Microsoft Excel is a widely used, multi-purpose spreadsheet software. I have used it since my college days 20 years ago, and throughout my accounting career since then. Currently in my risk management role, I use Excel for various vendor reviews and documentation tracking. After setting up an Excel template, I can easily see open items through the use of conditional formatting to highlight items, and percent completion of various tasks through Excel formulas. Because Excel is so widely used, new staff or interns who join our team even temporarily typically have a basic understanding that allows them to effectively use our Excel spreadsheets.

Some of the functionality of Excel takes some focused training to fully understand. It can be difficult to use it to its full potential without that training.

The ease of use, amount of functions, possibility of things can be done, writing functions within functions, giving link to cells between sheets and other Excel files. It's almost possible to create a database-like structure using VOOKUPs, HLOOKUPs, which result in "Join"s. Functions have not only basic operations such as sums, dot products, but also return statistical parameters too. For instance,...

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As I explained above, I work as a data scientist and I sometimes deal with huge amount of data "BIG DATA". As much as I love working on Excel, unfortunately Excel sometimes cannot handle big data, especiaily if there are millions of rows. That's the only downside of Excel I can think of.

The software is well-designed, accurate, precize and transparent. It is easy to manage and offers new opportunities all the time. It is doing its job very well. The application is very useful for me, I use it daily on both PC and Android device. Thanks to OneDrive, where I stop working on one device, I can continue on the other. I can easily work with it anywhere! That's great! It does its job on both...

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Occasionally stops for a few seconds during editing. Many times it does not paste the formulas properly and moves the pasted text elsewhere. Sometimes it can process a 5-page document in 20 minutes. When you open a large file, it removes or does not display the entered formulas. Many times it freezes or crashes during the workflow of large files. Sometimes Excel opens in a different language and I always have to switch to my native language afterwards. Fonts are often confused. Excel cannot open two documents of the same name.

It is easy to use and allows to create great looking and sound spreadsheets. Anyone can use it and it is easy to learn and works on all types of computers

Takes time to learn how to do but once you master it, it is easy to use.

I like most was not hard to learn how to you it. Very easy to use . I love how u can add anything you basically want to use.

There wasn't nothing I didnt like about this software at all. I loved everything about it all of it .

Simple to use. It allows me to keep items in line, in categories, with counts in seperate columns easily.

If you're not familar with Excel it can be daunting to get started with formulas.

I use Excel for just about anything I need to track. I love being able to use color codes as count down timers for dates. When I was a advertising salesman, I use to track my customer followups using that feature.

It has so many features, it is easy to forget what all it can do. And sometimes you know it can do something, but forget how to make it do it.

I maintain a big love/hate relationship with Excel. Some days it makes me happy other days it just makes me drop F bombs at technology. But as toxic as it sounds my relationship with Excel is really great :-)

sometimes it hate me. I dont like that. But other days it make me so happy, and it makes it all worth it

I love the capabilities. It can help us track new enrollments, track their improvements, and then track trends and analyze them. This product is crucial in helping to make sense of BI reporting, and to simplify results on a one to one basis with users of our products.

The only thing I like least is the ease of use. You do college degrees based around programming and building formulas into excel. That makes it hard to truly use it to its full capacity.

you can use for any type of work, no matter what line of work you are in, excel can be used and applied

It can be hard to formulate it is not an easy app to use. I think it requires traning

You will find that it is incredibly powerful and can handle the most complex jobs imaginable. It is also easy to share real-time versions with your time.

It is powerful because it is complex; therefore it is difficult to learn how to use it.

Need to populate a spreadsheet? There are lots of Open Source softwares, but none come close to the original MS Excel. It does it all. Time sheets, formulas, taxes, inventory, whatever you can think of. There is a learning curve, but once you have it down it works beautifully

Difficult to learn how to use, complex interface

The possibilities with Excel are limitless. From someone who simply wants to make a list of numbers and add them up, or make a quick graph, to someone who wants to analyze hundreds of thousands of rows of information, Excel can do it all. You will get out of it, what you put in to learn it.

Nothing, Excel is amazing. It isn't something you can master easily, it takes time, but it is worth it.

Just how powerful it is, this thing feels like a programming language sometime. you can do anything

The learning curve, it's still not very intuitive to use

Excel can do anything. It is a great spreadsheet with so many shortcuts making it easy to use. It can also be used as a database if you had to. You can put drawings and charts in it. You can do nearly anything. I have used it for years and years and it is my favorite piece of software. And then you can also program it and write code if it needs to do something else.

Nothing. It works great for everything that I use it for. There are even hidden easter eggs in it with games. It can do it all.

I use it as a tool for my job, and is useful, even more than word

It covers many many things and areas, that it makes it hard to use and fully understand it

Formulae Use and versatality of the software that helps to calculate data in various ways/

Not very friendly for new and amatuer users

Everybody has it and everybody uses it. It has become such a powerful tool, that you can do almost anything with it.

They still haven't fixed some of the 20+ year old flaws. Like it 'forgets' the clipboard memory when you click Enter, or you can't change column width while text editor is opened. Excel is flawed down to the inner core.

Either you need to organize your accounting needs or to make an itinerary, excel is perfect. It has all the features you can think about. If you have any problems, there are forums online that have many questions answered.

It is costly for a whole year but it is worth it

It is a perfectly functional spreadsheet program

Sometimes it seems like it tries to do more than it should

We are about to bulk import from our current excel. This will be much more user friendly.

Not applicable as not fully using yet. Bulk import expected soon.

Easily handles our membership management needs with a minimum of fuss. Handles payments through Stripe transparently. Also handles off-line payments without much bother. Imports member lists through Excel and from MailChimp. Excellent value for the money. Tremendous customer support (can't say this enough!)

Wish we could more tightly integrate JoinIt forms into our WordPress site without tripling the cost of our subscription. Would like a few bulk update/delete options for our membership lists.

The ease of use, integration with leading software, and impressive customer support.

It's still pretty new, and some cool features are still in Beta stage (member directory, uploading contacts)