All characteristics and functionality of Excel remain, which is helpful when working with annotated datasets (colors, figures, images). Simply select the columns you want to analyze-and away you go! I can run any statistical analysis in less than 5 minutes and return to my same dataset-with a new perspective. This makes it easy to work from existing Excel workbooks, without having to re-format and re-code data tables. Pros: XLSTAT provides all the common statistics analyses I need for my research and it works seamlessly-integrated into Excel-which is a huge plus.