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All the Microsoft Office for iPad apps are wonderful and have great potential for business users. This should be a 5-star app and the gold standard for Office apps for iPad. #1. Unfortunately Microsoft chose to cripple this app by not allowing users to "Open In" other apps with full fidelity. This should be a no-brainer for Microsoft. It is favoring its OneDrive cloud storage over app flexibility. Apple learned this lesson early on with its iWork suite and scrambled to get ahead of its competition to the point of reworking its OS to allow users to open their documents in other apps. I expected much better from Microsoft than to have to resort to emailing documents to myself one at a time, no less. PDF conversion is nice but it doesn't go far enough. #2. What about a true folder system in the local iPad storage like the one that's available in OneDrive. Nudging users to OneDrive is not the answer even though Office 365 is required to unlock full capabilities. The $100 per year would be a lot less painful if I could have full Office capability. #3. The View menu in all apps is not a true View menu with full formatting capabilities including vertical and horizontal line spacing customization, and the other formatting capabilities that come with the desktop apps. #4. Where is Visio? If Microsoft is appealing to the business user then a standalone Visio app is a must. Not everyone can use Azure for business use and having Visio would make Microsoft Office for iPad truly formidable. Microsoft, you have a long way to go.

After the most recent update, Excel became unusable. When I open a file, the cursor doesn’t appear and I can’t edit any cells at all. I have to completely close the app and reopen it, and only then does it work — but not always. This issue started right after the icon changed, so it’s clearly from the latest update. Please fix this as soon as possible because Excel is an essential tool, and right now it’s impossible to use for data entry or editing. Después de la actualización más reciente, Excel se volvió inutilizable. Cuando abro un archivo, el cursor no aparece y no puedo editar ninguna celda. Tengo que cerrar completamente la aplicación y volver a abrirla, y solo entonces funciona, aunque no siempre. Este problema comenzó justo después de que cambió el ícono, así que claramente viene de la última actualización. Por favor solucionen esto lo antes posible, porque Excel es una herramienta esencial y ahora mismo es imposible usarla para ingresar o editar datos.

As of Jan 27, 2023: excel will randomly crash when using dictation. I am then left with a grayed-out cell that I can change the fill color with, unless I use desktop excel or the web version. I've tried testing this on several spreadsheets, even a new one. It's repeatable as it seems to occur about every half dozen times I turn on dictation while in to excel. Very annoying, especially since I have not seen dictation causing crashes in any other apps. I reported it to Microsoft weeks ago. I don't know if it's a MS or Apple issue. Certainly hope a future release will fix this is. Knock it off one star. Grrr! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Prior review: I am relieved that the format painter was returned in the 2.65.1 release. In addition, multiple new functions have been added.👍 It would be nice if Microsoft would add the optimization feature that is built into the web and desktop versions. I think that would alleviate complaints from people about performance in the iOS version. I found out about this kind of by accident after loading a large spreadsheet into the web-based version of office 365. It offered to optimize my spreadsheet (I made a copy before doing this). When I reopened it on my iPad, it was MUCH faster. As responsive as a smaller spreadsheet. Excel is definitely my go to app on my iPad. It has enough features that I usually don't need to use the desktop or web version. I will have to explore what else is available in this release.

I am using an iPad Pro 256GB Wifi + Cellular version and I am extremely disappointed on the speed and features of the app. Not sure if the app or iPad Pro is to blame but the vlookup, match functions are just not working as gracefully as it should be. Each time I input a number, it would take 5 seconds to return the correct values and it is just not acceptable on an advanced device like the iPad Pro. I have to admit that my spreadsheet has over 50,000 of rows, 30+ columns and 10+ spreadsheets but there are no macros and images used at all. And for anyone who relies on Excel to process this huge amount of data, this is just a very common scale of a spreadsheet, not to mention it is only 10MB. Either Apple or Mircosoft seriously needs to look into resolving this issue or there’s just no point of having this powerful application on the iPad.

The app is fine and honestly better than what I expected when I first got my iPad Pro. If you are used to using Excel and are not expecting 100% of the features you find in the desktop version, chances are it will work fine for you. The one thing I think Microsoft could improve upon dramatically are the keyboard shortcuts. Why would you include the ability to insert a table or an auto sum formula, but not a keyboard shortcut to insert a column or insert a row? It is ridiculous. The best option would be if Microsoft made it so keyboard shortcuts were customizable i.e. you can define your own beyond the preset ones. I realize it might sound weird to bring up keyboard shortcuts in a review for the iPad version of the app, but I feel like there is probably a lot of overlap between people using a keyboard attachment and people that are regularly using Excel (or similar) on an iPad.

I began using Excel in 1993 when I was in my very early 20’s while working for the county government, throughout my life and still use it today. It had already been around for almost 10 years. Being a math freak I had so much fun with it in the beginning even taking a certification class and then using the program, at the time to probably it’s fullest capabilities. I even bought the software for my home as it became more interesting than Nintendo or Atari. Creating formula and calculation sheets for work, fun and even helping a few friends with their businesses in my off hours. I eventually moved onto Access a short time after and it blew my mind. Excel however is a great product for your small to medium projects, small businesses and is a great stepping stone for Access. Thanks MS.

But I would not recommend that anyone doing serious accounting or consulting work use the mobile version because it is next to impossible to enter formulas since you have to use touch rather than a mouse. The fields are extremely difficult to size and what I usually see is many fields particularly numerical fields with ########## in them. And attempting to enlarge the fields is impossible on an IPhone or IPad. Now on Windows 11 or IMac Ventura 13.1 with a large screen and a mouse its much easier. Yes I use all Microsoft products on my IPhone and my IMac too. The first thing I do when getting a new computer or phone is get rid of the Apple knockoff version of Office 365 and replace them with Microsoft version of the same product.

😅 There are problems with Account Sign In. Even though I already have M365 paid account and I signed in with it, Excel still asked me to create new paid account. 😅 Another minor issue is that it doesn’t remember last Zoom level. So have to ALWAYS adjust zoom level for every document that you open. Im surprised that such simple feature as remembering Zoom level is absent from Excel app. 😅 Another thing is it ALWAYS asks to try Excel Prerelease Version in a business bar. But whenever I click it, it first asks to re sign-in, and then Excel opens an Error page with content “Oops, Sorry we couldn’t find what you were looking for”. 😅 And last, the Document Preview on landing page, displays columns K through T. It should start with column A instead, or wherever there is column with content. 😅 Besides those 4 fit and polish issues, Excel works great.

I do not know what happened if that is fault of our corporate policy or Microsoft fail to implement MDM, or Apple fail to provide proper functionality in iOS 15 … but I do not understand why I’m blocked by our corporate policy everywhere means in all Microsoft applications. Whenever I would like to open document from my private Teams in word, excel, power point, I’m always failing with inaccessibility because for some reasons corporate policies are applied to my personal account. What the heck ! I can’t simple print nothing. How is that even possible. Aren’t all applications send boxes how Microsoft achieved this stupidity !? I don’t care who’s fault it is, just fix it asap! Totally useless app which leads me to use purely Apple products like Pages, Numbers, etc.

This app is great if I can open it. At least twice a week I attempt to open the app and it freezes, giving me a message saying it is trying to open the document. I tapped the cancel option and nothing changes other than a different message saying it’s trying to cancel. I close the app and try again multiple times with no success. I end up having to delete the app, then reinstall it to get it working again. But without fail have to go through all of this again in the next couple of days. I’m not one to post negative reviews very often, but this has been going on for about a year now. I drive for my job and need to track my mileage. Excel is my preferred method.

🌟 **Excel: A Game Changer for Business and Beyond** 🌟 Excel has been nothing short of a revolution for my business. As an entrepreneur handling inventory management, file organization, and countless data-driven tasks, I can't imagine a day without it. The versatility and power of its features have streamlined my workflows, saved me hours of manual labor, and allowed me to focus on growing my business. From dynamic pivot tables to custom formulas, Excel adapts to my needs like no other tool. Its ability to seamlessly manage massive datasets has been a lifesaver, and its compatibility across devices ensures that I can access my work anytime, anywhere. What truly sets Excel apart is its user-friendly interface coupled with its robust functionality. Whether you're a novice or an advanced user, there's always something to discover and master. For me, Excel has been the bridge between chaos and clarity, transforming complex tasks into manageable processes. Thank you, Microsoft, for creating a tool that's not just software—it's a partner in success. I wholeheartedly recommend Excel to anyone looking to elevate their productivity and take control of their business. 💼✨

Okay so, I’m an MS Office girl from way back. From websites to databases, you name it, I loved every little bit Office could offer. But then I got an iPhone, and I found myself straying to other apps compatible with my newfound iPhone love. I tried Office for iPhone, but at that time, the two designs just didn’t work well together. But recently I’ve needed to work with Office and I gave the iOS version another go. All I can say is Hallelujah, y’all!!! Microsoft has worked out all the kinks, and my two tech-loves can coexist at last! Oh , and not for nothing, I recently got an iPad Pro 10.5 with an Apple Pencil, and OMG, y’all!! I’m in database-formatting-outline-creating Heaven!!! Give Office for iOS another try- you’ll be happy you did.

Overall, I’m very happy to have the convenience of using Excel on my iPad. I’m not a very sophisticated user, so the stripped down version is mostly workable for me. That said, some functions don’t seem to be present at all, and it’s puzzling why they aren’t included in the iOS version. I keep getting a ‘circular reference’ error in one spreadsheet, for instance, and can find no way to locate it using the iOS app. I finally went to my PC to resolve the error. Since all of Microsoft’s dubious ‘help’ seems to refer to the PC version, looking up ‘how to’ information can be an exercise in frustration. If there’s a chart that tells you which functions aren’t included in the app., it should be prominently displayed so as to avoid the many wasted minutes looking for something that just isn’t there.

It’s obvious the menu bar functionality of the Office suite for iPadOS has not been fully implemented, as the menu items are pretty generic so far. On PC/Windows, the menu bar has been gone for a while, but it lives on in macOS. I’ve been using Excel on iPad Pros from the original 12.9”, the 2020, and now the 2024 M4 iPad Pro. I have used and loved Excel since the early 90s. I’m no longer a power user, so I have not noticed any limitations. I use this in conjunction with the desktop counterpart without issue. Occasionally a version has glitches, which gets fixed. I appreciate that in the standalone version I can have multiple instances open, or open side by side with a Word document, Unfortunately, the all in one MIcrosoft 365 iPadOS app cannot do that. Fine for iPhone, not for iPadPro.

I work in excel everyday… I had my work flow scheduled really well, the files I created worked really well for me. Recently my boss came to me and asked if I would help with some issues out of my department, he asked if I had extra time to spare… I hated to tell him I did but I did because excel has helped me make that time. I hate to say this as well, over the past 3 years I had grown complacent and hadn’t looked up from my hobbit hole much. Oh my God Excel has added so many features, leading to and from many newer applications within the Microsoft Family of applications. I have redeveloped my passion for learning again. Excel has been a game changer in many aspects of my life, and for that I am grateful.

I consider myself an advanced Excel user and was skeptical of the limitations that would be imposed by the iPad version, but I have been pleasantly surprised so far. I have just started using the iPad version but have not yet encountered any major limitations for the activities I use 90% of the time. The cell borders options are not as complete as in the PC version, but that’s a cosmetic thing I can live with. The program integrates fantastically with the cloud, and all updates are immediately available on other devices. Very convenient to use the iPad for quick additions to a sheet, without having to go to my desktop computer, boot it up, do my work, and copy it to a thumb drive or email it to myself. This is easy to get used to...

I am a Private Real Estate Investor. I buy and hold (rent out). I also do most of the management and maintenance traveling to different properties. My everything financial tool. •This is my mileage logs personally tailored the stops designated for each property, personal and commuting. Perfect for tax purposes. •My business checkbook which includes future bills through next year for planning purposes. Easily list, sort and find charges. •My maintenance logs includes a sheet showing each house and apartment HVAC filter size and condition unit (coil cleaning etc). •Amortization sheet. Each row shows the balance each month while each column is a different property. •Using formulas such as =sumifs and =subtotal quickly sums specific charges in your lists for reporting and planning. Suggestions to improve: • add an option to disable or remove the slider bar/markers. They are a nuisance and useless. •add an option to tab a couple spaces within a cell. I want to “almost left align” so if column A is right aligned (numbers) and column B is left aligned, the context of the two cells won’t appear to be running together. •add an option to reduce the keyboard screen size slightly to give more view of the editing area when typing. May be best to reduce the number of keys and put some on another edit screen like the option used already with the icon on the top for calculation input. This extra edit icon would allow for additional keys the user may want to use. •Copy & paste. Paste should be one of the first options after copying vs having to key to the right to find paste. Owner: Torres Investment Properties LLC, Aladdin Apartments LLC and Viandi Estates LLC, & in the works to establish Torres HVAC LLC. This App is FIVE STARS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

At the beginning of the computer revolution there was a killer app and it was VisiCalc, the first successful spreadsheet. Business owners bought personal computers just to be able to run the spreadsheet. When GUI was widespread, Excel became the norm. Together with Winword it dominated the market for killer apps of the PC era. Now we are in the cloud era, and excel is no more. New apps are available for our mobile smartphones, which became the indispensable tool for business professionals. Cloud based apps, with access to our online accounts in a new paradigm of workflow. It’s laudable that Microsoft tries to fix the old business software for the modern technologies, but it’s like an old version learning new tricks.

I did have a bad experience with a recent update to the app and was incredibly worried I had lost my beloved Excel on my slightly older iPhone 12 Pro forever. I updated to the new Liquid Glass adapted version of excel and nothing worked but now with this recent update it actually seems faster than ever! Not sure what caused the short term glitch but I’m so happy it’s back and working better than ever and I’m so glad the team at Microsoft was able to fix it and improve the experience to make this so much better and bring back my favorite tool for tacking all sorts of items via spreadsheets!

The new comment feature RUINED my previous notes. I used to be able to edit them at will. Now because they have all been converted to these “threaded comments”, for one they take forever to open up when you tap on them and I cant edit them. Ive had this particularly useful spreadsheet that Ive used for years and now its almost no good to me. I was on online with tech support for 2 hours trying to see if there was a way to reconvert them back to simple notes. It turns out I have to use the my laptop and redo the entire spreadsheet to re-add all my notes. I cant even find the “add note feature” on my iPad version. I am not happy at all with this comment thread feature!!

Good app but Excel is easier to use on a desktop or maybe a tablet computer. One good thing is that I can use Excel on my computer and then use the cloud to view the file on my iPhone. That way at least I can view or print the file without carrying around a larger tablet computer. Unfortunately, however, the Excel screen on my iPhone is scrunched up and the help feature is not as accessible on my iPhone. I suppose this app would be useful for people who are extremely familiar with Excel and it’s formulas but for average users like myself using Excel on a larger computer is the way to go.

I’ve had Excel on my iPhone and iPad for years and never have had this issue. The latest versions have terrible saving functionality. Often times, my files do not save (even after manually switching off auto-save and force saving). There’s no way to confirm if the file saves even though you shouldn’t have to anyways. This needs to be resolved soon, as the app is no longer reliable. I’ve spent over 3 hours the past two days redoing files I thought had previously saved. SAVE yourself the time and do not use this app until a fix is in place.

I am a professional mariner who uses this app to run spreadsheets that assist me in navigating and handling cargo. They essentially act as custom calculators with the convenience of my phone. Implementation of excel into the smartphone format is great. I build the spreadsheet on my computer and transfer it to my phone. I like the dedicated number keypad. I do not at all like how I am regularly unable to “edit” read, use, my spreadsheet without internet! It is saved to my phone, but the hokey subscription requirement of connecting to the internet or locking up my spreadsheets completely castrates this app’s usefulness. I cannot rely on it when I need it most, at sea out of the range of any internet services. You seriously need to fix this fault. Make me pay for it if you have to, but for goodness sake not everyone has reliable access to internet. You are killing those users’ loyalty to Microsoft. I go for months without internet access. If you have options for us and we just don’t know about it, please do better to advertise it. Great app. But useless because you regularly lock me out of it!

Always my favourite. The most perfect, polished, intuitive and infinitely deep program I use on a regular basis.

The app used to be quite good but for the past month, it keeps crashing every time one switch to another app. Please fix!

More frequently than annoying, while I’m working on a spreadsheet when I move the mouse the spreadsheet zooms up to a very high magnification. Typically I view my sheets at 150%, but when the unintentional zoom happens it’s not unusual for the sheet to go above 225%. I acknowledge that my hand movement on the mouse might be the trigger but this zooming is not consistent with every time I move the mouse. What can do to eliminate this annoying and frustrating zooming?

Add the analysis toolpak option to the iPad Pro version!

J’ai utilisé Lotus 123, car Excel n’existait pas et depuis 20 ans j’ai opté pour Excel et transféré mes principaux tableurs. Ce tableur de Microsoft est vraiment génial et très fiable. Tout est possible à condition de mettre le temps nécessaire à concevoir notre application. Pour me détendre, j’aime concevoir des applications pour mon utilisation de tous les jours, comme la prise de ma tension artérielle trois fois par jour. Elle est sur mon iPhone et se synchronise avec mon ordinateur Windows. J’ai débuté la conception d’une application pour calculer le coût de construction d’une résidence avec des liens Internet chez Home Dépôt. Tout semble possible si je mets le temps nécessaire à sa conception. Serge

On my old iPad I could edit my spreadsheets but in this version it forces me to buy a subscription to edit my spreadsheet. I guess I’ll have to switch to Google! Adios Excel

Microsoft offers limited functionality for this product in iPadOS, iOS and macOS. K think that is by design, as they try to muscle users to their inferior operating systems. I won’t give in and support an inferior, buggy, OS just so I can use excel. I’d rather switch spreadsheet programs.

Very good app

Its convenient to use this app.

Una aplicación con todo lo que que necesitas para tus trabajos de oficina

Just works seamlessly with MS 365!

Excel is the most powerful and reliable spreadsheet tool out there. The formula library is massive, the pivot tables are incredibly useful, and files always open perfectly no matter what device I’m on. It’s constantly being updated and improved too. Absolutely essential for anyone who works with data. It might take some time to learn at first, but when you get the hang of it, enjoy!

Excel doesn’t maintain formatting for local areas of spreadsheets. It keeps defaulting to the base formatting. So I have to keep reformatting those areas. Office 365 should be compatible with old Mac OS versions from MacOS El Capitan 10.11 onwards. Microsoft only supports the last three Mac OS versions, thus forcing users into buying newer Mac’s or using Office alternatives.

Excellent

Excel is the ultimate Swiss Army Knife of apps! It can do nearly anything anyone short of a PhD in math needs to know to do everything involving numbers in any way. BUT.. you’ve got to have a reasonable grasp of arithmetic and basic algebra to construct the formulas you need.

This app is was awesome, I mean it was the best thing since sliced bread until; fresh new data via desktop was uploaded, and then deleted. I uploaded a ton of new clients to my potential prospects list, saved the information, and then behold; as I opened the app on my iPad, the app automatically opened my most previous file, which was my prospects list. The data was old data, previous data that does not have my updated info. And to top it off the autosave was on, OH MY GOD, I prayed that I was just in another file or something, no I was not. All of my new data was deleted because the app must be stuck on stupid or something. Ok, I thought this is my fault it won’t happen again, now here I am on a brand new day and the same thing happened. How? Because I switched AUTOSAVE off before I closed the app. However, when the app resets, autosave automatically activates. So beware, you could be on your last breathe, bottom dollar or ramen noodle diet or whatever. Trying to send feedback is highly inconvenient when you are limited to 24 hours in a day. And even if you do ask Microsoft for help, they will not reply. As for I have sent them multiple messages, with no response. I guess I gotta go to their Facebook, Twitter etc and expose them for the rich lazy types they’ve become so comfortable with as we give them our hard earned cash. Essentially, within conclusion I repeat “AUTOSAVE CANNOT BE PERMANENTLY SWITCHED OFF, AND IF YOU CHERISH YOUR HARD EARNED DATA, SAVE IT MULTIPLE TIMES AWAY FROM THIS APP.” Smh @ Microsoft, no wonder Apple surpassed you guys, GL.

I have to build work-arounds in the Ipad version of Excel. The most aggravating one being the fact that I have to be logged into my account in Excel even to work offline. I have to work around that by putting my Ipad in airplane mode. It is not appropriate that the Excel user who chooses the portability of the Ipad should be logged into an online account in order to use the product. And with every new iteration of Microsoft’s renewed user agreement, I grow more suspicious of Microsoft’s encroachment into my privacy. I do not have the time to read the minutia of the dozen pages of legalese. My choices are accept what ever new level of data privacy I am surrendering to Microsoft or don’t use the product. For this reason, I am presently learning Apple’s Number’s program. Once I get used to the loss of functionality Numbers may not have over Excel, I plan to abandon Excel altogether. I realize that there may be limitations on the Ipad version of Excel due to copyright, intellectual property agreements, and patent infringements between Microsoft and Apple, but these petty rivalries only make Microsoft look worse. And it does not excuse Microsoft from not making a fully functional version of Excel that can be used on the Ipad.

I am a Music Education student who is required to take a basic statistics course for my degree. I also used to be an engineering major where we were required to do an advanced statistics course. Not supporting KEY features like the Data Analysis Toolpak in 2021 where many students are using office 365 on tablets is very disappointing from a company that prides itself on its office suite. It puts thousands of students at a disadvantage because they (instead of being able to use their preferred and possibly only personal device) have to go to computer labs on campus, which are not always guaranteed to work or be open when you need them to be, to complete what should really be a mundane class in the curriculum of basically every humanities and social sciences major, and at much higher levels STEM majors. I thought the excel app would be more robust than the google sheets app but it really doesn’t even compete when the main pull to excel is its add-ons and because it does not have those google sheets is really the better option with much more ease of transition between devices.

This has started to change dates to random dates when I go to sort and column by ascending order. Changed everything from 2025 to 2026 and randomly changes the day and month for some of the dates as well when I do this. I have been using Excel for a while and it seems every time an update comes along it will fix one thing and then break another. It’s really sad what tech companies have become, incapable of releasing a fully finished/complete product. Update, after leaving excel to write this review and going back to excel it reset me to a different version of the document from earlier in the day and wiped all of the work I had input into my income spreadsheet. I am a business owner and use excel for my income and expenses and if this if what Microsoft considers a complete product the i will switch to apple equivalents and relearn those programs and cancel my Microsoft subscription. Your products get worse over time and and as someone who is familiar with the tech industry and how it works i can say that your development and QA teams are incompetent

I like being able to access my excel files from my iPhone. Works great for simple editing and updating. But suddenly I can not edit an excel file that I had created on my laptop and had been able to edit it on my iPhone before. It opens read only and when I try to save it to another name or location it does not allow it because I now must have an Office 360 subscription. I never had one to begin with. I have a one drive account, but that does not get me around this. WHY do I suddenly need an Office 360 subscription? It’s MY file; I created it OUTSIDE of this iPhone app. WHY are you holding me hostage? I can’t find an explanation for why this happened and why I now need the subscription. Google Sheets seems to work just fine and I am now using that instead. Are other Office apps going to do the same thing to me? Incidentally, if you get stuck by this, I finally got around not being able to write the file anywhere by mailing the file to myself from inside the app and then I opened it with Google Sheets.

I’ve been using Excel for years and I do mean years, as in since it existed and it’s always been fine. Most of that time though, I was using it on a PC. Now I’m using the app version on an iPad and even then it’s mostly been just fine. Slightly scaled back version of the PC version and that’s ok because my spreadsheets on the iPad are simple ledger sheets. But now I’m having an issue that is really frustrating. I get these pop up message balloons suggesting content for the cell. That’s fine. They’ve always been there but now they’re not going away. Type in a name in column B and it offers a suggestion. Tab to C and it’s still there. Tab to D and another one may appear and so forth until I have three or more of them just sitting there. I have to physically scroll up or down to clear these things. Every row, every time. If this little bug doesn’t go away I’m going to have to switch programs.

I partly blame this on Apple and partly on Microsoft: but when the WEB VERSION of excel is more fully-featured than your iOS/iPadOS version, you should probably consider why that is the case. There is absolutely ZERO excuse why Excel (and all the other Office 365 apps) are not fully featured on iPadOS. It’s not even an ARM vs x86 thing anymore as they have clearly brought Office over to apple silicone. Please, for the love of god, I want to actually use excel on my iPad but when it can’t properly function with any modern enterprise-level workbook I just can’t even bother. Yes, it works for basic Excel functions. If you’re workbook practices are still rooted in what was done back in the 90s and early aughts, this app will be perfectly fine for you. Anybody who works for/with large enterprises who have lots of workbooks, data sheets and external references, steer clear as this will create more headache for you than anything else.

I see that others have already reported this, but the most recent update completely broke the editing feature because you can no longer see the text that you’re trying to edit. Part of the reason this is so disappointing is that this is the third time that a major feature has broken in Excel. In some cases it coincided with an iOS update, but it always seems to take them weeks or even months to fix the problem which is very frustrating. (And with one of the two earlier issues I tried contacting both Apple and Microsoft support and they both kept pointing fingers at each other.). The two earlier issues were: 1). An update that completely broke the dictation feature. 2). An update that broke the “paste special” feature, so if you wanted to only copy the format or contents of a cell you were out of luck.

Wuderlist was a wonderful app. It kept lists, synched across my devices, and across my family (if I choose). I used it to run my life. MS acquired it, changed the name to ToDo, decided it was perfect as an enterprise project management system (it’s not, and I have run big projects), and made it nearly impossible to rely on if you are not sitting at your desk all day like a MS developer. It got rolled into the MS system, and of course double password protected. Right away I hated this—I don’t need my grocery list defended from the Russians. Then it decided that I couldn’t leave it on—it would log me out to protect my data. A big waste of more time. Then it decided I needed to use their proprietary two-party app to provide a backup authentication. Did they even think about how much fun this would be standing in the middle of Home Depot and trying to work through this morass just to verify which woodscrews I wanted to buy? Here’s a hint for the developers—software should help us get stuff done, not be a merry-go-round of interaction with the system. Time to find a new app.

As with the rest of the Office 365 suite, Excel has been rendered completely unusable by the latest update. You cannot do anything—and I mean literally anything—on the app without it crashing within ten seconds. Navigate to the home screen? Can’t open any of the files directly in app. You have to go to your Files App. Try to create a new spreadsheet? Good luck. Even if you manage to make one, the app will freeze on you shortly thereafter and you will be unable to click on any cells or type in anything. Open an old file using the Files App? It’ll freeze within moments of your first edit, and if you restart the app and reload the file it doesn’t even save the piddly few edits you were able to make before it bugged out. I have restarted the app, restarted my devices, uninstalled and reinstalled, so I know it is an app issue. I have already cancelled my Office subscription and urge others to. Corporations don’t listen to us, but they listen to our money.

I use excel to track my business miles on my iPad while I’m out in the field, and it seems like at least 3-5 times a week I have to completely uninstall and reinstall the app because it stops being able to open any files. It just says something went wrong and the file can’t be opened. I’m able to open the file on my phone and computer, it’s just this version of the app that has this problem. The first few times it happened I tried resetting the device and clearing any app cache I could get access to, but the only thing that would fix it was completely reinstalling. This is not a small app to be downloading several times per week over cellular... If it weren’t the only app capable of handling the specific formulas included in this spreadsheet I would definitely be using Google Sheets or Open Office instead... If you need a general use spreadsheet app I highly recommend looking at one of those instead to avoid this persistent pain in the neck...

I have been seriously disappointed with the Microsoft office products on iPad. I wasn;t expecting much since it in a iPad after all but as someone who is a student, teacher, realtor and study intelligence for the military this iPad is lacking the basic necessities. Word - I can perform 2 functions and I get the same use out of Notebook. Excel- still haven’t been able to find one useless aspect. I expected way more out of Microsoft Office and the possibities it provides on an iPad. Especially for someone who has been a committed user since the very beginning. What yeah was that like 1990’s or 2000’s. Extremely disappointed. If this is the best that could be done for Microsoft on an iPad then at least make it easier to navigate and more capabilities. Perhaps downloading different fonts for a start? Thank you for all your hard work and allowing my feedback!

Bought the subscription to Office 365 because I wanted to use Microsoft Excel. First 2 projects I worked on went fine. My 3rd project was a huge one (a $800 fee for me). I worked on it for 6 hours when suddenly my work vanished ... disappeared right in front my eyes! I tried everything, but I could not get the document back. Came to the realization that while the “auto-save” feature was “on”, the app was not saving any of the work!! The Microsoft cloud had nothing! Made a quick research and found that this type of complaint has been posted by others going back to 2014!!! What??? IT HAS NOT BEEN FIXED??!! Clients have had the same 2 bad experiences (failure by the auto-save and the document disappearing) AND MICROSOFT HAS NOT ADDRESSED THIS ISSUE. So, despite buying the iPad Pro intending to use Excel, I now will have to buy a Window base laptop. Grrrrrrrrrr.

I have 30+ years experience using the desktop version of MS Excel on Windows based PCs. Consider myself fairly proficient. iOS version on iPad looks like, but does not function like, Windows desktop version. First, it appears to be web based so there is serious lag time between attempting to make changes and seeing your attempt appear on-screen. Second, I have spent last ten minutes attempting to copy three adjacent cells (two with numbers and third with formula adding them together) then pasting them into several rows directly below them. Highlight the three cells, long press then tap Copy, highlight group of cells below, long press then tap Paste and what happens? Those three Copied cells are not Pasted but instead one cell shows contents of last item (a cell description) I Copied from a website. Tried four times, same result. Very frustrating. Shame on me for expecting a Microsoft app to work well on an Apple operating system. Guess I need to learn how to use Numbers.

It’s great, not having to carry around my macbook pro and use excel for work on the iPad. I’ve gotten used to and actually prefer to use Excel on iPad for a quick project. However, after the update for Apple Pencil 2, program does not respond upon opening sheets, switching tabs, etc when you are using the apple pencil unless you tap on the Draw tab, and tap again on Home tab. It wasn’t doing that before the update. This does not make for smooth, quick work process, having to switch back and forth. I talked to the Tech Support about this, and was told that basically it is what it is now and that I’d have to wait for MS to fix this issue. Sooner than later would be great. Also, if there is a way that allows multiple sheets open at the same time, that’d be wonderful, but one can only dream.

At one time I would have given 5 stars as Excel is one of my favorite programs. But some recent changes have made this app almost unusable for me. I'd rather turn on my computer and wait to use that Excel instead of the app. If I try to scroll up and down with the key pad open, it usually closes the keypad on me. Opening it again every time is a pain. When I enter a number in a column and hit return, the keypad automatically reverts back to the text keys instead of the numbers. If you are entering numbers in a column, chances are you will want to keep entering numbers. Having it go back to text every time is obnoxious and totally a waste of time! If I select a cell with my finger, it is basically impossible to then select an adjacent cell. I need to tap one away from the one I actually need first and then go back.

I have to use microsoft on the iPad I use for work. I can’t even begin to describe how much I hate excel and microsoft. The current ceo of ms has basically forced who I work for to insist we use their products. I kinda think that’s monopoly practices, but whatever. I got the iPads before I knew about that rule or I wouldn’t have purchased them. Total waste of money because they are now very expensive paper weights. Excel on the iPad is clumsy and glitchy. I do field work, like in an actual field, and having to edit these sheets is annoying. I use my personal iPad to make a sheet in numbers then open it in the excel iPad. If I had wanted to use excel or any other ms product I would be using the surface, which we have, and it was also a huge waste of money because you have to use that keyboard. The ‘pad’ part of the surface only works with some apps. Again, not something they tell you when you buy it.

The description clearly says the core functions are free on iPhone and iPad, I’m simply trying to edit a few cells on my own spreadsheet I emailed myself. Apparently you need to sign up for a useless Microsoft account just to do that. No thanks- I don’t need another useless login and password/privacy policy floating around just for basic functionality of a single app. iOS mail already allows you to view spreadsheets, or even better , free google drive allows you to view and edit excel files (and a free Google Drive account actually provide some Real functionality, as opposed to a free Microsoft account which I’m sure is also crippled until you pay). I really think it’s pathetic that you can’t even edit your own spreadsheet without signing up for a bs Microsoft account (that’s another useless login + long password you have to keep track of, and be vigilant of next time there’s a credential dump / hack occurs), I have no need for a Microsoft account beyond using Excel on iOS, so I won’t be signing up and won’t be using this app. In all honesty I’m sure I have a few useless Microsoft accounts i was forced to signed up for over the years for other useless garbage I quit using after a few weeks. Either provide a functional app or don’t (or charge a onetime fee), I would be willing to pay five or $10 or even 20$ one time just for the added features, + would understand more advanced functionality might still require a monthly subscription. But not monthly fee for just the basics. Typical Microsoft deceptive ads and description along w greedy practices.

Last year I was able to print out of Excel and Word. This year I cannot, it seemed with every update through this app or the iOS on the iPad fifth GEN I can’t find the print option or it has completely disappeared, ONLY in the Microsoft apps! I can print my emails, I can print out of Bible study fellowship app, but I cannot print a Word or an Excel document! The help that I get off of Google is worthless because under share or whatever else you want me to use to print, doesn’t exist. Print is nowhere in this app or in any of the apps that come from Microsoft, I pay over $100 a year for this program to have it on my iPad and I cannot use it so having to delete it. It’s been so frustrating in the past year to use this app on the iPad because the print option seems to keep moving or disappears completely! Yes, my iPad and the printer are both on the same WiFi because I have only the ONE!

I’ve been using Microsoft Excel for years, and this latest version is shockingly unstable on iPadOS 26. The app freezes almost every time I open a workbook — sometimes immediately after launch, sometimes while editing. This is happening across many users, yet Microsoft still pushed this version live. It’s unacceptable that such a critical productivity app was released without proper testing or compatibility validation for the latest iPadOS. Both Apple and Microsoft users have been flooding support forums with the same issue for weeks, and there’s still no fix or even a clear acknowledgment from Microsoft. Professionals rely on Excel daily, and this release has broken that trust. Please prioritize a permanent fix immediately — the iPad version is practically unusable right now. Until then, I have no choice but to use the web version or switch to another spreadsheet app.

One thing about all the Microsoft apps that drives me crazy is that I get logged out and have to log into Microsoft again. No other app I use from any other provider does this to me. It’s really frustrating. I’ve bought the app, and suddenly things gray out and go readonly with a tiny hard-to-notice message at the top of the window telling me I have to buy a subscription to edit; touching that brings up a purchasing workflow dialog that’s focused on selling the app to new customers and not focused on current customers. It takes a half-dozen more steps to get through all these upsell dialogs and get back to the app successfully to actually do some work. And the login dialog isn’t even properly built; it doesn’t initially even prompt my password manager to appear. The whole experience just makes me feel irritated.

Nothing is more frustrating than using an app that is a shell of itself. Especially when it comes to simple tasks. I had excel spreadsheets on my PC that I had generated and each one I created a logo and title in the header. These headers aren’t generally seen while using excel but are available to edit and use through a menu on a PC. Now I use an iPad Pro solely (PC died) and there is no menu or method to change headers on all of my excel files I have previously made. My spreadsheets are useless because I can’t change a header in their iOS app versions. And I am a Microsoft 365 user/payer. I called support and asked where I could give feedback on this to get someone to look at it and change it and they told me I only could go to a PC to give feedback on this. They didn’t have a method in a browser on an iPad! That’s crazy messed up! Microsoft, are you listening, why are these simple and necessary features not available?

I am having issues with this application on my IPad. I can not use the application at all. Also, this application logs me out of Office 365 from time to time and I can’t access my files. Then when I try to log back on I have issues and it wont let me. This only happens on occasion. I am now logged in to Office 365. The real issue now is, I can not even use this application. When I first open the application it tries to open the last document I worked on. The issue is that it wont open it. It just keeps the pop up that says attempting to open and will not do anything. When I try to cancel it, it then pops up attempting to cancel and won’t. My application is no longer working on my IPad due to this. I’ve tried to turn the IPad off. Stop and start the application. I don’t know what to do.

Ive been using Excel for many many years - I’ve used the iPad version since 2018 and I’m seriously disappointed. Every 3 or 4 months all my data for those months of my budget spreadsheet completely disappears. When it happens there is no trace of it having ever existed. I’ve reconstructed the data and tried to restore the worksheets lost, but I’m out of patience now. I can’t keep doing this. I can’t get a response from anyone about why this is happening. Users are apparently on their own, with no help from MS. Too bad too, because I have the PERFECT budget spreadsheet replete with formulas, charts, and tables that track utility usage, balance projections and it comes out very close to reality. But I just can’t keep doing this. I’m looking for something else that won’t loose all my work regularly.

I have been using this app for over 11 years without any issues at all. Lately, however, it seems Microsoft needs to end the free use of their software. When I open the app, nothing is there and when I hit ‘recent’, nothing there either. 3,400 entries, poof, gone! I open documents, find my file, click on it and it opens with Excel. The file is in Dropbox. I have to do this every morning and sometimes, the file will not open. Moreover, I will get a message stating that if I don’t purchas a monthly subscription, which I will be paying for the rest of my life, I cannot open any of my files. This is true except you can open your files with another Office program like Numbers. So I have learned Numbers, and ditched Excel. It’s a great program run by a money hungry, greedy organization that could give two sh_ts about their clientele. Adios!

I’ve been using this Excel for iPad/iOS app since about the time it came out. This is probably the case with all the Microsoft Office for iPad/iOS apps, but I’m experiencing this right now with Excel, so I’ll call it out here. Just about all my work is on Dropbox. Excel automatically tries to open the previous thing that I was working on. And if it gets hung up—Excel basically doesn’t open because it can’t figure out how to open a file that’s in my Dropbox. I’m down to the point that I’m just opening my old Excel files in Google Drive, because at least Google Drive lets me edit, and I can save my old stuff as an Excel file if Excel for iPad ever gets its act together. I’m finding the Dropbox functionality really dreadful, and am happy to talk to someone at Microsoft about it. I want to use Office products, but this weird situation is driving me bats.

The app really limits usability. Especially the file viewing setup. There is no way to customize the recents page, of size of each thumbnail. They take up the entire display and also do not display the actual sheet, its just blank. Recent files are not shared across devices, so when I create a file on my ipad, it wont show up anywhere on my recents on my phone unless I manually search for it. Theres no way to sort files when browsing. I frequently get in app errors. Like failed to remove from list, or failed to close, things like that. When in a spreadsheet, the different sheets are hidden and you have to click multiple menus to change within a sheet. I don’t want recommendations for what I frequently open, I just want a chronological list of files sorted by the date they were created.

Works great when it works. It tells me to sign up but I already have. I can't edit documents but when I checked my subscription it goes until mid-August. I removed a star yet again as excel isn’t working again. It’s reset after reset. Instead of having excel do thousands of tasks poorly how about making it do 100s very well. Added $1 to the monthly subscription. It’s not worth it. Cancelled renewal.

Extremely expensive. They should make a free version for people who are barely use Microsoft Office

Once again you’ve broken the app and my keyboard isn’t available when I try to update a cell or add data. I can move around but that’s it

The new version and the immediately preceding bug out hard. Opening a simple workbook and trying to navigate to different tabs immediately freezes the app. This is a terrible experience.

Keeps breaking. I have the most recent iPhone, now I no longer see tabs. Microsoft claims 30% of its code is generated by probabilistic chat-gpt models. I believe them.

See above, and then consider that they save their hottest worst garbage for apple devices.

Lost my spreadsheet after the latest update??

This app used to work without issue and now just freezes everytime I open it.

Fixed plz , session lag and stopp

My app just keeps freezing can’t do anything on my phone in excel anymore

Been over a week, just freezes. For some reason they won’t fix this.

They claim that they have fixed the bugs during the newest update, but I am constantly having issues. It will not allow me to edit cells within a spreadsheet. It won’t allow me to type. It won’t allow me to delete. It basically allows me to select a cell see inside of it and nothing else. I am using my mobile app. I have used this app and this exact spreadsheet for years.

I am basically unable to use excel since the new update. It freezes almost immediately upon opening.

The latest update is broken and dysfunctional. Do you even test before release? This is incompetent! I can’t roll back so thanks for screwing me.

There is no keyboard icon and no way to enter text into a cell.

Total crap. I’ve used Excel for many years and this version is incomprehensible. Help is totally useless.

XL for iPad and iPhone needs to be upgraded to give it more features and power when you are going back-and-forth between your desktop computer and your mobile devices.

Just updated and now I cannot connect to my Dropbox files from the app. Keeps saying network not connected, although I can go into my Dropbox app and open the same files there. Won’t even let me add it as a place again. Please fix. Otherwise, it is great.

I hate to use this store but what can I do? This is the only one.

Freezes after last update. Unusable. Needs a fix asap

Nearly every day it crashes on my phone and I have to delete the app and redownload it again so it works again.

Excel Spreadsheets don’t download from One Drive or get stuck in the loading que. Needs to be fixed!

How many updates do you need, or constantly ask to login?

Since recent update app takes a long time to open files, keeps freezing and giving a message "working on it".

This has become totally unusable. The lag is insane, information doesn’t load, I regularly get the “we’re sorry we ran into a problem” warning. REGULARLY, as in every time. There are NO EQUATIONS in my workbook and still it is completely lagged and buggy. It’s genuinely a bad app. If there was an alternative I would use it, if anyone has suggestions or alternate apps, please put them in the reviews!

I receive a "you're invited to edit" email. I click the link. I get a permissions error. No prompt to log in. No "try a different password". And certainly no seamless "it just works". Microsoft tools only work when you have exactly one email address and you never use your phone for anything except that one account. Home and work? Forget it. Multiple contracts as a consultant? Nope. "Federate Identities"? Hah. Expect to find errors and vestiges for years to come. Microsoft's so-called identity system has been fundamentally broken for as long as it has existed.

Every so often the app crashes, unhighlights important functions, print and dictation options just vanished from my ipad/apple

"Find" feature is now HUGE and blocks large portion of screen, and ability to push OFF screen is revoked. Combined with Copilots garbage remedies, and Edge, MS is useless

Garbage software by garbage corporation.

Impossible de partager des classeurs

Fazer graficos no ipad é horrivel, melhorem

All my apple devices are linked. It doesn’t allow easy access to my spreadsheets when using both devices

NSA level sign-in requirements when things go wrong. Ambiguous, and frustrating and even your CoPilot couldn’t provide a clear path.

Wondering why I need to keep signing in on my phone when my email is always signed in , otherwise I appreciate excel

Fonctionne mal sur une tablette Apple. S’ouvre mal, les fichiers ne s’affiche pas dans la page d’ouverture. Les contrôles avec CMD ne fonctionnent pas exemple sauvegarde, insérer la date, l’heure etc. La sauvegarde automatique ne fonctionnent pas toujours, des heures de travaux perdus à cause de cette fonction automatique surtout que CMD+S ne fonctionne pas. Comment faire le lien entre Excel sur mon PC Windows 11 et Excel de la tablette Apple quand on est sur le terrain? Pas surprenant c’est un produit Microsoft.