Microsoft Excel for PC and Mac

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• By One Flew Over The Coocoo's Nest

  4

  Nice to have Xcell on my Microsoft LT - use it all the time.

  However, There are a few nagging problems: 1) When copying & Pasting or moving a cell from one place to another, the border lines move with the selection. The Borders should be seperate from the formatting of the cell as well as the contents of the cell. 2) The pointer does not always change acording to the area of the cell I click on. ie, the bottom right corner should turn the pointer to a black and be able to drag or after selecting, hovering over the edge should turn the pointer into a hand, both of which are hard to get the program to do some times. I usually have to zoom in to make cell larger. 3) When working in a Book that has many sheets all with interlocking pointers to other sheets within the same book, sometimes the sheet you are on does not update the value of the cell until it is in the viewing area of the monitor and selected. This can cause problems when program refresh lags. I'm guessing refresh lag is because of the size of the workbook. Should be that whenever a change is made on a sheet, then the whole book should update and not wait till it is being displayed on the screen. Most computers, have multiple processors now days, so this should not be an issue.

  
  
• By tired2x

  1

  Years dealing with the same bugs and errors

  I have had excel for years and like most of us, we have seen very little improvement to the bugs that destroy the quality of Microsoft Suite. In this instance, excel and word are HORRIBLE. If we had another option, I would be using it by now - knowing that we dont I guess is why you lack the incentive to make significant improvements to your products. Thank goodness for antitrust laws! Excel crashes as many times as it please while working, the alert boxes wont close unlesss you force quit a document which opens in auto recovery only to find it out it never recovered where you left off - if you're lucky enough to remember where you left off. Even where you select pickup where I left off, is inaccurate which I'm sure you are aware of also. One day, I can delete content in a row or column, the next day delete doesnt work. It is so unreliable and unfortuntately cannot be my clutch for getting work done. The file doesnt always open when downloaded through an attachment, and no- there is nothing wrong with the atachments - it is part of a larger issue with Excel. Your company's whole suite is unbearable to work with for serious projects. I am beyond exhausted and frustrated with all of your products.

  
  
• By bengregg

  4

  I only use it because I have to, but it works

  I used Excel years ago on Microsoft Windows, and hated how often Windows would crash and I'd lose my data. However, this version on Windows seems to be pretty stable (no crashes so far) and is in many ways more intuitive to use (at least for me) than Google Sheets. I would probably give it 5 stars, but I think the pricing for Microsoft office in general is pretty ridiculous, given that it's basically 30-year old software that hasn't really evolved that much in the past few years. I do think the move to the Cloud (Office 365) was a great idea, but when you consider that Google Docs is free, it's hard to justify paying as much as we do for this product, especially when you consider that Microsoft's move to .xlsx file format (from .xls) was essentially so that they could continue their monopoly. Boo.

  
  
• By Mitschku

  3

  Great product but annoying issues on the Windows version

  The only reason why I gave Excel a third star is because I cannot deny that it is and always has been terrific software with endless possibilities. That is still the case even on the Windows operating system and it's far better than Numbers or Sheets. With that said, there are so many issues that are so frustrating and I don't know where to start. I'll start here: Microsoft products do not do well when in full-screen mode. There are a couple of noticeable bugs such as an inability to change the name of a worksheet and more when it is in full screen mode. There are so many little things that is frustrating such as the inability to use a keyboard shortcut to select all of a set of data when a dialogue box is up. So much more can be said, but overall, it would be nice to see Microsoft invest more attention into Excel for Windows.

  
  
• By Amanda eveningfall

  2

  Micosoft Excel for the Windows

  I am extreemly disappointed in the quality of Excel for the Windows. I used the PC version up until a year ago and had stabitity probloems with the file system. The Windows version has many bug and is no where near as good as the PC version. Their are annoying things like the Format Cell window not showing up on the screen with the spreadsheet being edited and if the Format cell Window is not moved to the same screen as the spreadsheet the format commands are not executed. I have had problems with the allignment of the mouse pointer and the location of a highlighted box of cells being offset, and needing to switch to another sheet, click and return to the original sheet to correct the cursor allignment. I have also had problems with stability of spreadsheets that have VB associated with them. Crashes, locking up, typing in empty cells causing crashes.... In short this version is a productivity killer please test it thuroughly and fix it!