[Chris Hibner]

I use Matlab 95% of the time. The only time I use Excel is for Goal Seek.

Matlab is MUCH less user friendly than Excel. Excel is really easy and intuitive to use, but much less powerful, especially for big-time number crunching.

I think that people that like Excel much better just don't know Matlab well enough to use it efficiently. That is okay - Matlab takes a long time to learn. Why go through that learning process when you can use Excel and do it NOW. Since I am so fluent in Matlab, I can usually do anything in Matlab in about half the time it takes me to do it in Excel (and the results always look prettier).