The former Microsoft Office suite (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) now requires a subscription - but there are easy ways to get it free.

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Microsoft Excel has been the premier spreadsheet software for decades, since outdoing the once venerable Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for PCs in the 1980s. And Excel's dominance has yet to be ...