verb

• (transitive) To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.
  "I excelled everyone else with my exam results."
• (intransitive) To be much better than others.
  "But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels."
• (transitive, archaic, rare) To exceed, to go beyond.
  "She opened; but to shut / Excelled her power: the gates wide open stood […]"

name

• (computing, software) Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet application software program written and distributed by Microsoft.
  "“Do you know Excel?” ¶ “No.” ¶ “Could you learn?” ¶ “Probably not. I find it very difficult to learn things I don't already know.” Then, remembering the advice that I try to sell myself, I added, “But I'm sure I'd pick it up eventually.”"