All Macabacus Reviews
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Michael
Entertainment, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Essential Plug-in for Financial Analysis
Excellent experience, couldn't do my job without it
PROSMacabacus has several powerful features that make your life much easier. Features include automatically formatting cells to indicate hard-codes, vs formulas vs links to other sheets/workbooks. More advanced capabilities include tracing dependents and precedents across multiple sheets or workbooks with automated highlighting and drill-down features. Powerpoint features are also very helpful including advanced alignment/sizing functions. Very easy to install and use.
CONSMacabacus can be buggy at times. You have to be careful when performing certain actions as it can slow down/crash your workbook if you give it too much to do. There should be an option to catch Macabacus before doing a very large operation that will take a long time. Additionally, it can be a pain to upgrade Macabacus when new versions are released as it requires administrator rights and needs to be manually installed, does not automatically deploy via software center or other administrator tools as far as I am aware.
Miranda
Venture Capital & Private Equity, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Macabacus is the most time efficient, helpful Excel add-in
I find the integration with Excel, the customization tools for modelling and formatting and the ease of use to be exceptional. The customizable shortcuts have saved me loads of time and I find it to be a critical tool for all of my Excel usage.
CONSIt takes some time to set up and reorder customization of cycles and shortcuts to be most consistent with what I'm used to. It also had to be replicated on second and third desktops (as opposed to carrying over my customization and preferences with a sign on function).
Edward
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2023
Review of Macabacus
Macabacus has extremely comprehensive Excel functions (Tracing dependents, 'super' search, keyboard shortcuts) and in PPT is just as helpful (Copying format, shape sizes, aligning sizes, importing pictures from Excel)
CONSI find Macabacus slower in large workbooks, especially relative to other Excel plugins, which render it sometimes almost unusable and frustrating
Lars
Pharmaceuticals, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
need more turbo sharps and more adv. charts
its great, but would like to see more turbo sharps and more adv. charts, since the pre-defined options would save alot of time trying to get/make the right illustration
PROSeasy to use, with good ways of test QA and QC
CONSi would love to see more turbo sharps and more adv. charts. and maybe a simple way to make your own sharps and charts (fit for purpose), that can be shared/saved (e.g decision trees, Box and Whisker Plot, CSAT Score Bar Chart, Funnel Chart, Overlapping Bar Chart, Radial Bar Chart, Sankey Diagram, Slope Chart, Sunburst Chart,
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Thoughts Around Macabacus After 2 Years of Use
My overall experience has been great and Macabacus has improved my productivity.
PROSFor powerpoint, I utilize the formatting shortcuts daily and find it to be the most useful tool. For excel, I mainly use macabacus for precedent and dependent tracking. However, there are other good tools such as shortcuts for formatting.
CONSThe interaction between powerpoint and excel through Macabacus can be unreliable and I believe the excel functionalities via Macabacus can be advertised better and have clearer use cases.
Idan
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Extremely helpful for navigating between office
Live presentation linking to .ppt from .xlsx and formula tracing are unrivaled features in the market
CONSOccasionally plug-in simply disappears and needs to be restarted
Danny
Real Estate, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
I can never go back…
Love it. I can’t use excel without it.
PROSThe features of Macabacus became second nature and I can honestly say - I’ll never go back the time before Macabacus came along. Huge fan of this product and they keep improving every day. Highly recommend.
CONSI think you could expand upon the chart templates and improve their ease of use. I’d love to see the ability to populate a form word or ppt document from an excel table.
Arthur
Investment Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
No complaints!
Similar to factset shortcuts and the user interface is intuititive
CONSSometimes it will suddenly not become available and needs to be reinstalled
Reasons for switching to Macabacus
Factset was not offered my my company
Will
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Excellent Visualization Tool
I use Macabacus visualizations throughout my board presentations and for other charts and analyses. It is far easier to use than the native Office presentation functionality, and allows for the easy creation of impactful & persuasive visuals.
CONSSometimes Macabacus feels clunky to use when working in Excel and Powerpoint.
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Financial Modeling Comment
Macabacus is amazing when you learn how to use it, however the learning process is long and sometimes too difficult to junior people. I'll recommend to give some video tutorials to begineer and new users.
PROSquick formulas such as CAGR, common errors detections, charts template,
CONSHow to standardize slide on templates, how to quickly link textboxes on ppt and excel
Sia
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
great tool for excel
I love all the advanced modeling tools, keyboard shortcuts, making analysis more efficient
CONSThe learning curve. There are so many functions I know I'm not using and I wish there were more efficient ways to know and learn and master them, and incorporate them into my daily work
zariq
Real Estate, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Macabacus Review
Tracing formula function is amazing, and th e simplicity to use it the formula. Based on other competitors using the functions are easy
CONSat times when the files are huge using Macabacus could delay the speed and at times the model will hang.
Jp
Investment Management, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Necessary
Easy and simple to use. Helps me on a daily basis.
PROSEasy and simple to use. Helps me on a daily basis.
CONSHave not had any issues. I have heard of colleagues sometimes having trouble with plug-in disappearing.
Benjamin
Banking, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2023
Great product
Great! Asloi great human team. Garrett Burchett is great support for us
PROSIt makes my life easier in Excel an PPT. Specially with comands that are faster than going through excel. Also good charting and chart update futures
CONSMaybe more client training. I suspect i am not using multiple useful functions
Reason for choosing Macabacus
I like it better and bette pricing
Juan
Logistics and Supply Chain, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2023
Macabacus
For tracing dependents and precedents is great and for importing charts to PPT
CONSVery frequent updates where I have to close all Office windows
Ni
Investment Management, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2023
Great software with lots of functionality
Lots of helpful functionalities that substantially increases efficiency. Allows for many keyboard shortcut customizations including autocolouring, tracing, number formatting, etc.
CONSThere were difficulties with billing/integration with enterprise accounts and personal accounts.
Mark
Investment Management, 1 employee
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Time saver!
It’s saved me hundreds of hours over the years!
CONSWhen a macro fails, you will very likely lose your file. Good luck.
Jake
Banking, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
reivew
great
PROSimport export feature from excel to powerpoint
CONSchanges made importing from excel to powerpoint
Joe
Construction, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Macabacus Review
Formula tracing is very useful and more effective than native Excel features. Customizable formatting shortcuts are extremely helpful while building financial models as well.
CONSSome of the actions cannot be 'undone' if used by mistake
Brian
Investment Management, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Worth the Money
Overall, a good product for the price and a helpful add-in
PROSI use the trace / export to powerpoint / word the most. It's a great, low-cost alternative to other high-cost trace functions through capiq or other resources
CONSThe export to excel sometimes changes sizes between pastes and colors like purple aren't turned to black when exported (would be great to be able to change this)
Taylor
Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Best Excel Tool
Fully customizable and easy to use short keys in excel. I really love the precedent tracing feature which makes it very easy to audit formulas across multiple tabs or spreadsheets.I have used Macabacus for many years across multiple organizations and would recommend to anybody who asks.
CONSThere is not much I don't like about it .
skanda
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2023
Skanda
good, like the add ins and the macros
PROSEasy to use. I like the functionality offered
CONSmakes the files slow sometimes and sometimes lags
sandra
Media Production, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Macabacus helps make the financial modelers life better
Macabacus is able to increase productivity of modeling and graph creation on Powerpoint. Through the short cuts and features, I probably cut down 20% of my time
CONSIt takes time to learn and there are quite a bit of features that take time to learn
Bobby
Financial Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Great Product for Financial Modeling
Customization of hotkeys and shortcuts. Able to have multiple libraries.
CONSSettings sometimes don't save when I add a new shortcut or edit one.
Wahyu
Automotive, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
User review
Tracking formula on excel, and easily see which column or row the formula refer to
CONSThe graphic and chart is not easy to use