Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a part of the most widely used digital office suite on the market, Microsoft Office. It was launched in 1990 and reached Android and iOS not so long ago in 2014. Today it’s the most popular office bundle on mobile as well. Microsoft Excel alone has over 700 million installs on both platforms. You can get it for free on Play Market and App Store.

Features and Functions

The mobile version of Microsoft Excel provides a wide range of tools for creating, viewing, and editing spreadsheets in a wide range of formats. Similarly to the PC version, you can create and manage charts, and analyze massive pieces of data. These features are vital for accounting, finance, auditing, and many more different fields of business. Now you can perform a wide array of operations on the go. The Excel app includes all basic instruments of the original versions and enlightened formatting features. You can make annotations to charts, highlight commented segments, create and fill all types of shapes, and insert mathematical equations.

Collaboration features are available for cross-platform use, which means that you can edit documents simultaneously with other users no matter what platform they use. Currently, Microsoft Excel is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS computers. 

The list of default destinations for sharing is impressive. You can send XLSX files to your personal or corporate OneDrive account, to Google Drive, Dropbox, Egnyte, Syncplicity, workplace_, NetDocuments, and dozens more. Office 365 apps are integrated into numerous platforms for business.

Interface

Microsoft Excel app looks quite different from the full PC version. Developers focused on minimalism to make the interface free from clutter. While the tablet version provides all features divided into tabs, the smartphone app has all of them hidden in the sidebar. If you can’t find something, you can be sure that the needed option will appear on the screen exactly when you might need it. Excel collects user data for the processes of machine learning, so every new version presents soft improvements that make your interactions with the app quicker and more productive.

Conclusion

Microsoft Excel is the only trustworthy app for spreadsheets that can serve any purposes of small, medium, and large enterprises. It provides a lite set of features, but you can be sure to find all the essential ones in a few seconds. Microsoft Excel requires at least 1GB RAM, Android 6.0+, or iOS 11+.