Excel spreadsheets: XLS, XLSX

These are the default formats for Microsoft Excel. Excel supports its own form of formatting. You can add comments, and it has a spellchecker. Spreadsheets can be a useful format if you’re exporting text from a database, for example.

For a spreadsheet, Wordy editors will check only spelling, grammar and other issues to do with language. It is unlikely that your editor will look at any formulas or how numbers are rendered.

There are no tracked changes. Editors can mark changes using highlighting or by colouring text. However, doing this is time-consuming, so you would need to specifically ask your editor to do so.

The word counter works in much the same way for XLSX files as it does for DOCX, effectively treating each sheet as a table. It also includes the name of the sheet. The word count includes words and numbers. A formula counts as a single word.

As an editor, depending on the spreadsheet, I would possibly import the content into MS Word, where I would do routine checks, but make any changes directly in the relevant cell in the spreadsheet.