What is Excel? Columns and Row and Formulas? Yes, but much, much more. The Modern Excel includes PowerPivot and PowerQuery. Excel has become a first class enterprise Business intelligence solution, Millions of row can be loaded, using PowerQuery , data can be linked using PowerPivot interactive, reports are easy to generate using PivotCharts and Cube Formulas.
Tables and the related features completely updated working with ranges with many time saving features.
Dynamic Arrays have been added which completely changes how we work. Ten Times the Power in One-Tenth the Time.
There much more. This short list is just to get you thinking. Dig into Excel and learn how what the modern version is and how it will help you with your Excel Solutions.