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Compare the best free Microsoft Excel alternatives for 2026, including features, pricing, pros and cons, and use cases for each spreadsheet tool.

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lindsay Philips is a founder and change leader In 1979, a new tool called VisiCalc landed on finance desks. For the first time, ...

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With a new set of Microsoft 365 features, knowledge workers will be able to generate complex Word documents or Excel spreadsheets using only text prompts to Microsoft’s chatbot. Two distinct products ...

A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for ...

Despite millions spent on financial software, many finance teams still rely on Excel to close their books and reconcile numbers while preparing them for audit. Two former Microsoft executives view it ...