The document discusses the release history of Microsoft Excel from versions 1 to 16 for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. It provides tables listing the year, name, and version number for each release. It then describes some of the key new features introduced in major versions like Excel 95, 97, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. These include the introduction of things like Visual Basic for Applications, pivot tables, the ribbon interface, sparklines, Power View, and 50 new functions in Excel 2013.
The document discusses the release history of Microsoft Excel from versions 1 to 16 for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. It provides tables listing the year, name, and version number for each release. It then describes some of the key new features introduced in major versions like Excel 95, 97, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. These include the introduction of things like Visual Basic for Applications, pivot tables, the ribbon interface, sparklines, Power View, and 50 new functions in Excel 2013.
The document discusses the release history of Microsoft Excel from versions 1 to 16 for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. It provides tables listing the year, name, and version number for each release. It then describes some of the key new features introduced in major versions like Excel 95, 97, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. These include the introduction of things like Visual Basic for Applications, pivot tables, the ribbon interface, sparklines, Power View, and 50 new functions in Excel 2013.
The document discusses the release history of Microsoft Excel from versions 1 to 16 for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. It provides tables listing the year, name, and version number for each release. It then describes some of the key new features introduced in major versions like Excel 95, 97, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. These include the introduction of things like Visual Basic for Applications, pivot tables, the ribbon interface, sparklines, Power View, and 50 new functions in Excel 2013.
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Microsoft Excel for Windows release history
Year Name Version
1987 Excel 2 2 1990 Excel 3 3 1992 Excel 4 4 1993 Excel 5 5 1995 Excel 95 7 1997 Excel 97 8 2000 Excel 2000 9 2002 Excel 2002 10 2003 Excel 2003 11 2007 Excel 2007 12 2010 Excel 2010 14 2013 Excel 2013 15 2016 Excel 2016 16 Microsoft Excel for Macintosh release history Year Name Version 1985 Excel 1 1 1988 Excel 1.5 1.5 1989 Excel 2 2.2 1990 Excel 3 3 1992 Excel 4 4 1993 Excel 5 5 1998 Excel 98 8 2000 Excel 2000 9 2001 Excel 2001 10 2004 Excel 2004 11 2008 Excel 2008 12 2011 Excel 2011 14 2016 Excel 2016 16 MICROSOFT EXCEL VERSION HISTORY October 16, 2015/0 Comments/in Excel /by Vivekananda Sinha Microsoft Excel is the largest used Reporting and Data Analysis application now a days. Its important to know the Microsoft Excel version history since the version 1. The table below lists the various versions of Excel for Windows.
VERSION RELEASED
1 1985 2 1987
3 1990 4 1992
5 1993
7 1995
8 1997
9 2000
10 2002
11 2003
12 2007 14 2010
15 2013 MICROSOFT EXCEL VERSION HISTORY 5/0 Comments/in Excel /by Vivekananda Sinha s the largest used Reporting and Data Analysis application now a days. Its important to know the Microsoft tory since the version 1. The table below lists the various versions of Excel for Windows.
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Version 1, for the Macintosh was released. There never was an Excel 1.0 for DOS or Windows. Excel 2.0 is the first version of Excel for Intel platform. Included Toolbars, drawing capabilities, outlining, add-in support, 3D charts, and many more new features. The first “popular” version. Included lots of usability features. A major upgrade. Included multi-sheet workbooks. Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) was introduced in this version.
Known as Excel 95. The first major 32-bit version of Excel. This is the first major version after Excel 5.0, as there is no Excel 6.0. Almost no external changes, but faster and more stable. Known as Excel 97. A new interface for VBA developers, UserForms, Data Validation, and lots more. This was a major upgrade that introduced the paper clip office assistant and featured standard VBA used instead of internal Excel Basic. It introduced the now-removed Natural Language labels.
Included in Microsoft Office 2000. This was a minor upgrade, but introduced the upgrade to the clipboard where it can hold multiple objects at once. The Office Assistant, whose frequent unsolicited appearance in Excel 97 had annoyed many users, became less intrusive.Can use HTML as a native file format, “self-repair” capability, pivot charts, modeless user forms. Known as Excel 2002. Included in Office XP. It has a long list of new features, but most of them will probably be of little value to the majority of users. Perhaps the most significant feature is the ability to recover your work when Excel crashes. This version features product activation technology. Please consider the ramifications of this before deciding whether to upgrade. Known as Microsoft Office Excel 2003. The new features in this version are: Improved support for XML A new “list range” feature. Most significant feature in this version Smart Tag enhancements Corrected statistical functions. Most users will not find the upgrade worthwhile.
Included in Microsoft Office 2007. This release was a major upgrade from the previous version. Similar to other updated Office products, Excel in 2007 used the new Ribbon menu system. This was different from what users were used to, and was met with mixed reactions. One study reported fairly good acceptance by users except highly experienced users and users of word processing applications with a classical WIMP interface, but was less convinced in terms of efficiency and organisation. However, an online survey reported that a majority of respondents had a negative opinion of the change, with advanced users being “somewhat more negative” than intermediate users, and users reporting a self-estimated reduction in productivity. The new features included in this version are: New Ribbon menu System. This was a major upgrade. SmartArt set of editable business diagrams. Improved management of named variables through the Name Manager Much improved flexibility in formatting graphs, which allow (x, y) coordinate labeling and lines of arbitrary weight. Several improvements to pivot tables were introduced. Office Open XML file formats were introduced, including .xlsm for a workbook with macros and .xlsx for a workbook without macros. Specifically, many of the size limitations of previous versions were greatly increased. To illustrate, the number of rows was now 1,048,576 and columns was 16,384. This changes what is a valid A1 reference versus a named range. This version made more extensive use of multiple cores for the calculation of spreadsheets; however, VBA macros are not handled in parallel and XLL add ‑ins were only executed in parallel if they were thread-safe and this was indicated at registration. Included in Microsoft Office 2010, this is the next major version after version 12, as version number 13 was skipped. Minor enhancements and 64-bit support, including the following features: Multi-threading recalculation (MTR) for commonly used functions Improved pivot tables Pivot Table Slicers More conditional formatting options Additional image editing capabilities In-cell charts called sparklines Ability to preview before pasting Office 2010 backstage feature for document-related tasks Ability to customize the Ribbon Many new Function, most highly specialized to improve accuracy Included in Microsoft Office 2013, along with a lot of new tools included in this release: Improved Multi-threading and Memory Contention FlashFill Power View PowerPivot Add-In Timeline Slicer Slicer with Excel Tables Ability to Save files in OneDrive Windows App Inquire Add-In Charting Enhancements Recommended Charts and Pivot Tables 50 new functions http://ilearn.futureinhands.com/index.php/2015/10/16/microsoft-excel-version-history/
