European alternatives to Microsoft Excel
Excel has run the world's budgets, timesheets and ad-hoc databases since 1985. It's the spreadsheet everyone already knows, with formulas, pivot tables and now Copilot-generated analysis built in. Like the rest of 365, files default to Microsoft's US-hosted OneDrive and SharePoint, and the AI features arrive switched on.
Company information about Microsoft Excel
- Company
- Microsoft Corporation
- Headquarters
- Redmond, United States
- Founded
- 1985
- Data jurisdiction
- United States
- Ownership
- Publicly traded
- GDPR
- No
- Open source
- No
- Infrastructure
- Own infrastructure
Why people switch away from Microsoft Excel
European alternatives to Microsoft Excel
End-to-end encrypted collaboration suite. Docs, spreadsheets, and kanban boards. The server never sees your content.
German office suite from Nuremberg with word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation apps that read and write Microsoft formats natively. A free version, FreeOffice, is also available. Runs offline, so your documents stay on your device.
A complete, free office suite – documents, spreadsheets, presentations – that runs entirely on your own computer. No subscription, no cloud, no tracking.
LibreOffice in the browser, built by Collabora. Integrates with Nextcloud for a fully European document editing suite.
Open-source office suite for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with some of the best Microsoft Office file compatibility around. Registered in Riga, Latvia. Self-host it for free or use the hosted cloud edition.
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People also replace
Google Docs 
Notion 
Microsoft 365 
Microsoft Word 
Microsoft PowerPoint 
Google Slides Start somewhere.
Switching everything overnight is not realistic. Start where it matters most: your email, your cloud storage, your business tools. Replace one thing at a time.
The European Alternative already exists.
Pick Europe.
Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.
FISA Section 702
Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.
GDPR vs US law conflict
EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.