The excel.exe process is the driver of Microsoft Excel, the commercial spreadsheet program developed and distributed by the Microsoft Corporation for Windows-based and Mac computers. Excel multi-functions as calculator, graphing tool, pivot table, and a programming language known as the Visual Basic application. In 1993, Excel began to gradually replace Lotus 1-2-3, the industry standard in spreadsheets. Microsoft Excel has a grid of cells in numbered rows with letter-named columns designed to organize data and arithmetic operations. Excel has a group of programmed functions to answer statistical, financial and engineering needs. Excel can display data in line graphs, charts, and histograms using a 3-D graphical display. Microsoft Excel has interactive features such user interfaces with hidden spreadsheet, Decision Support System (DSS) which is an information system that displays organizational decision-making activities, stock analyzer, and poll databases, among many other functional features. Microsoft Excel also allows users to control the Excel startup by several command-line functions.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. excel.exe. is used by Microsoft Excel, If you shut down excel.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop excel.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Microsoft Excel, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed excel.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Microsoft Excel, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if excel.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that excel.exe, belongs to, in this case Microsoft Excel