Microsoft Excel 2003
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Initial release | 1987 |
| Stable release |
2016 (16.0.6769.2017) / April 12, 2016
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Spreadsheet |
| License | Trialware |
| Website | office |
Excel for Mac 2016
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Initial release | September 30, 1985 |
| Stable release |
2016 (15.24.0) / July 12, 2016
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| Operating system | macOS |
| Type | Spreadsheet |
| License | Proprietary commercial software |
| Website | microsoft |
| Filename extension | .xls, (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb - Excel 2007) |
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| Internet media type | application/vnd.ms-excel |
| Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | com.microsoft.excel.xls |
| Developed by | Microsoft |
| Type of format | Spreadsheet |
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms, especially since version 5 in 1993, and it has replaced Lotus 1-2-3 as the industry standard for spreadsheets. Excel forms part of Microsoft Office.
Microsoft Excel has the basic features of all spreadsheets, using a grid of cells arranged in numbered rows and letter-named columns to organize data manipulations like arithmetic operations. It has a battery of supplied functions to answer statistical, engineering and financial needs. In addition, it can display data as line graphs, histograms and charts, and with a very limited three-dimensional graphical display. It allows sectioning of data to view its dependencies on various factors for different perspectives (using pivot tables and the scenario manager). It has a programming aspect, Visual Basic for Applications, allowing the user to employ a wide variety of numerical methods, for example, for solving differential equations of mathematical physics, and then reporting the results back to the spreadsheet. It also has a variety of interactive features allowing user interfaces that can completely hide the spreadsheet from the user, so the spreadsheet presents itself as a so-called application, or decision support system (DSS), via a custom-designed user interface, for example, a stock analyzer, or in general, as a design tool that asks the user questions and provides answers and reports. In a more elaborate realization, an Excel application can automatically poll external databases and measuring instruments using an update schedule, analyze the results, make a Word report or PowerPoint slide show, and e-mail these presentations on a regular basis to a list of participants. Excel was not designed to be used as a database.
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