Those features are all available on spreadsheets in google docs. I use google docs as a mathematical scratch pad all the time. It also does graphs and it can be

Those features are all available on spreadsheets in google docs. I use google docs as a mathematical scratch pad all the time. It also does graphs and it can be scripted in JavaScript. One of my friends wrote a script that downloads all the latest stock data every few minutes and does a bunch of analysis on it. https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/sheets https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/sheets I'm not suggesting you should give up Excel. Just pointing out the features you listed are available should you decide to take a look.