Is Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets Safe for Kids?
Age rating is set by Google Play, not by Unstar. This page explains it and adds what parents report in reviews. Not affiliated with Microsoft Corporation.
What Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets's age rating means
Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets holds a family-friendly Everyone rating on the Google Play. It is broadly appropriate, but a low age rating does not remove every risk: check whether it has chat, ads, or in-app purchases below.
Things for parents to check
- Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets offers in-app purchases. Without a purchase password or spending limit, a child can run up charges. Set up Ask to Buy (iOS) or a Play purchase PIN (Android).
What parents and users report about Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets
Users frequently complain about the app requiring a paid subscription for basic features that were previously free, such as creating or viewing documents. Many also report performance issues like slow loading times, crashes, and excessive permission requests to access files. Additionally, there are complaints about the mobile version being less functional than the desktop version, lacking features like macros and formula dragging.
Summarized from 53 recent 1-3 star reviews. These are user reports, not verified claims.
How to keep your child safe with Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets
Settings, Screen Time, Content & Privacy Restrictions. Set an age limit for apps, require Ask to Buy for purchases, and restrict or remove Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets if it is above your child's age.
Use Google Family Link to approve installs, set a Play Store content rating limit, require purchase approval, and block or uninstall Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets on your child's device.
Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets for kids: frequently asked questions
Is Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets safe for kids?
Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets carries a family-friendly official rating (Everyone) on the Google Play. That makes it broadly suitable, but even family-rated apps can include chat, ads, or in-app purchases, so check the factors below.
What age rating does Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets have?
The Google Play rates Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets as Everyone. This is the store's own content rating, set from the app's features and content, not our opinion. Use it as the starting point for whether it fits your child's age.
Can my child use Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets safely?
If you decide to allow it, use device parental controls: Screen Time and Content & Privacy Restrictions on iPhone, or Family Link and Play Store parental controls on Android. Turn on purchase approval, set age-appropriate content limits, and keep the account under your family group so you can see activity.
How do I block or remove Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets from my child's phone?
On iPhone, open Settings, Screen Time, Content & Privacy Restrictions, then restrict or delete the app and block reinstalling it. On Android, open Family Link, select your child, find Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets and block or uninstall it. You can also set a store age limit so apps above your child's age cannot be installed.