MICROSOFT EXCEL

Ofad 55 – Document Processing and Keyboarding

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• 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 (VBA). 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 the Microsoft Office suite of
software.
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• While the origin of electronic spreadsheets be traced back to 1978, but it wasn’t until 1982
when Microsoft jumped into the arena of Electronic spreadsheets with a product known as
MultiPlan.
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• Multiplan was Microsoft’s first electronic spreadsheet program. It was introduced in 1982
as competitor for VisiCalc (the first ever electronic spreadsheet program). The key difference
between Multiplan and its competitors was Microsoft’s decision to use R1C1 addressing
instead of the A1 addressing which was introduced by VisiCalc.
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• Multiplan was very popular on CP/M systems, but on MS-DOS systems it lost fame to
Lotus 1-2-3. This thing motivated Microsoft to develop another spreadsheet product Excel.
The first version of Excel was released in 1985 for Mac. Later in November 1987, the first
Windows version was released.
• Did you know that Microsoft Excel’s first version was released almost 35 years ago.
Initially, our beloved spreadsheet program was available exclusively for Macintosh, back in
1985, with a version developed for Microsoft following in 1987. During its life, Excel has
undergone a number of different transformations to become the powerful spreadsheet
software that we know and love today.
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