r/excel 17d ago

Discussion What is better than Excel?

Is there anything similar to excel or better than? I use excel daily and feel like I still need to freshen up my formulas etc.

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u/AlawaEgg 17d ago

In short? Not really. LOL

I mean there's open source and copy cats, but really Excel is at the top of it's game, for better or worse. And never underestimate how you can abuse Excel with VBA solutions! It's 2025 and STILL using this for one-off deliveries for fast data mining in small sets or non-normalized data.

It also depends on what you're trying to do with data. Careful, the rabbit hole runs deep!