Spreadsheets for Business – Using Excel to Help with your Small Business Questions

The word excel has multiple meanings depending on the context in which it is used. In computer software, Excel refers to Microsoft’s proprietary spreadsheet program developed by the company over 30 years ago as an addition to their suite of Office products. It was designed as a competitor to other popular programs like Lotus 1-2-3 and works across multiple platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, etc.).

In addition to being able to perform typical spreadsheet functions like calculations, conditional formatting, pivot tables, etc., Excel also allows users to embed multimedia objects like images or videos within their spreadsheets so that they can more easily present data in an engaging way for their audience.

Microsoft Excel can be found in virtually every office environment across the globe because it provides businesses with a cost-effective solution for storing and analyzing large amounts of structured data quickly and easily without having to hire expensive IT professionals or developers who would otherwise be required if they were using other products on the market today such as Google Sheets or LibreOffice Calc.

So, what’s another word for excel?

Below is an image from Freethesaurus.com of the different meanings of Excel. However, none of them have to do with Microsoft Excel so we’re gonna have to dig a little deeper.

As much as we would love to provide you with a list of “other words for excel” or excel synonyms it’s just not something we can do.

You see, “Excel” is a product from Microsoft. Much like Word, Outlook and others you’ve never heard about. Much like those products, Excel is what it is, a product that allows you to create and edit spreadsheets.

With that said, Spreadsheet has a list of synonyms that may be what you’re looking for.

Here is what Thesaurus.com had for “spreadsheet”:

• operating system.
• program.
• freeware.
• groupware.
• shareware.
• application software.
• bundled software.
• courseware.

Again, not ultra helpful if you’re looking or an actual synonym for Excel.

And finally, here are the synonyms for “worksheet”. Not quite a Microsoft Excel synonyms, but it’s the closest we could find.