diff --git a/doc/source/getting_started/install.rst b/doc/source/getting_started/install.rst
index 3cd9e030d6b3c..cf5f15ceb8344 100644
--- a/doc/source/getting_started/install.rst
+++ b/doc/source/getting_started/install.rst
@@ -269,6 +269,8 @@ SciPy                     1.10.0             computation     Miscellaneous stati
 xarray                    2022.12.0          computation     pandas-like API for N-dimensional data
 ========================= ================== =============== =============================================================
 
+.. _install.excel_dependencies:
+
 Excel files
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/doc/source/getting_started/intro_tutorials/02_read_write.rst b/doc/source/getting_started/intro_tutorials/02_read_write.rst
index ae658ec6abbaf..aa032b186aeb9 100644
--- a/doc/source/getting_started/intro_tutorials/02_read_write.rst
+++ b/doc/source/getting_started/intro_tutorials/02_read_write.rst
@@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ strings (``object``).
 
 My colleague requested the Titanic data as a spreadsheet.
 
+.. note::
+    If you want to use :func:`~pandas.to_excel` and :func:`~pandas.read_excel`,
+    you need to install an Excel reader as outlined in the
+    :ref:`Excel files <install.excel_dependencies>` section of the
+    installation documentation.
+
 .. ipython:: python
 
     titanic.to_excel("titanic.xlsx", sheet_name="passengers", index=False)