Excel

Grid-based software tool

Excel is Microsoft's spreadsheet software, part of the Office suite and dominant in business and data analysis since the 1980s.

Users create workbooks containing cells organized in rows and columns, using formulas to calculate and manipulate data: I'll put together an Excel spreadsheet with the budget figures.

The name has become nearly synonymous with spreadsheets generally. (Lowercase excel means to surpass or be exceptionally good.)

software

spreadsheet

Tabular data organizer

Office · cells · rows · columns · formulas · pivot · tables · macros · VBA · charts

Categories
Opposites
performance quality

Excelfail

Be unsuccessful

flounder · struggle · falter · underperform · stumble

software type

Excelword processor

Document creation software

Microsoft Word · Google Docs · WordPerfect · PowerPoint · Pages

standing relative to others

Excellag

Period of falling behind

trail · fall behind · bring up the rear · pale in comparison

Phrases
Family

excellent, excellence, excelling, excels, excellently, excelled, unexcelled, excelsior

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G