Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool used to create and format spreadsheets. Spreadsheets allow information to be organized in rows and columns and analyzed with automatic calculations. In Excel, workbooks contain worksheets which are made up of cells organized into rows and columns. Cells can contain numbers, text, formulas, and more. Formulas allow calculations to be performed on cell values and functions pre-written formulas that perform common calculations. Charts can be inserted to visually represent spreadsheet data.