# Microsoft Excel

Tool · [Standard tools and platforms](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tools)

Also called: Excel, MS Excel, Excel spreadsheet, xlsx

[Microsoft](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/microsoft)'s [spreadsheet](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/spreadsheet) app, part of Microsoft 365. It is the standard tool for financial models in finance and banking.

**For example:** An investor sends a [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) an Excel template and asks her to fill in three years of projected [revenue](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/revenue).

Official site: <https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/excel>

## Connects to (6)

- [Spreadsheet](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/spreadsheet): A grid of rows and columns for numbers and lists, with formulas that calculate totals.
- [Microsoft](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/microsoft): The company behind Copilot and Azure.
- [Google Sheets](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/google-sheets): Google's online spreadsheet app.
- [Revenue](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/revenue): All the money customers pay your business, before any costs are taken out.
- [Runway](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/runway): How many months your company can keep going before the money in the bank runs out, if spending stays the same.
- [Formula.js](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/formula-js): An open-source JavaScript library that recreates spreadsheet functions, such as SUM and VLOOKUP, so an app can run the same calculations…

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