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If Excel vanished tomorrow, global finance would halt. It is the essential infrastructure powering the modern world.

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech ...