r/excel is a subreddit with 900k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses excel, formula, ifs, lookup, and date, and they frequently recommend/review programming language, no code tools, and tablet.
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Popular Themes in r/excel
#1
Solution Requests
: "Tools/Extensions/Software Suggestions for Using PC Excel Shortcuts on Mac"
3 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Looking for advice on leveraging AI for Excel in a price-sensitive, third-world country"
3 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "What’s the most frustrating type of messy data you deal with in Excel?"
1 post
#4
Self-Promotion
: "I built an add-on to clean 50,000 cells of messy spreadsheet data in under 1 second without writing formulas"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/excel
#1
Excel
: "What do you do as the “Excel” guy with AI now?"
43 posts
#2
Formula
40 posts
#3
Ifs
8 posts
#4
Lookup
5 posts
#5
Date
4 posts
#6
Row
4 posts
#7
Data
4 posts
#8
Sumifs
3 posts
#9
Xlookup
3 posts
#10
Tool
3 posts
Products Discussed in r/excel
Programming Language
23 reviews
#1
Microsoft
3.7★ from 9 reviews
#2
Python
5.0★ from 5 reviews
#3
Power Query
4.7★ from 3 reviews
No Code Tools
9 reviews
#1
Alteryx
3.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
DataRobot
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
axcel.io
5.0★ from 1 review
Tablet
6 reviews
#1
Microsoft
4.8★ from 4 reviews
#2
Logitech
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
Surface
3.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/excel
#1
unsolved
: "What are your most useful Excel VBA macros or shortcuts that you use every day?"
33 posts
#2
Discussion
: "What do you do as the “excel” guy with AI now?"
27 posts
#3
Show and Tell
: "I built an add-on to clean 50,000 cells of messy spreadsheet data in under 1 second without writing formulas"
4 posts
#4
Pro Tip
: "Custom Excel LAMBDA vs. HAS: 2× faster in my tests: expected, or a bug?"
3 posts
#5
Waiting on OP
: "Variable Query Name in VBA"
2 posts
#6
Advertisement
: "CSV Fácil — A free, 100% privacy-friendly tool to clean messy CSV files instantly"
2 posts
#7
Weekly Recap
: "This Week's /r/Excel Recap for the week of October 03 - October 09, 2026"
1 post
#8
solved
: "Every supplier formats invoices differently, so I built vendor-specific field mappings that put each one into the right Excel columns"
1 post
Member Growth in r/excel
Yearly
+75k members(9.1%)
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Last updated: October 15, 2026