I used to think Excel was sufficiently powerful, but features such as conditional formatting, sparklines and slicers have proved me wrong over the years. Over the years, I’ve appreciated how hard Microsoft has worked to come up with new, genuinely useful features to add in each update of this now-venerable application.
I’ve used it for years for building feature tables and graphs for comparative group tests in magazine reviews, calculating printer costs and heat-mapping wireless router performance.
Love it or hate it, there’s nothing quite like Excel for managing lists, handling large quantities of figures, generating graphs and analysing trends.
