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Part of: Microsoft Office Suite
Comparable: OpenOffice, Google Sheets
Microsoft Excel is the spreadsheet application in the Microsoft Office Suite. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms. Excel also facilitates basic statistical functions and data visualization. Excel is available on the MacOS and Windows platforms.