16 Facts About Excel

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS.

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.

Windows version of Excel supports programming through Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications, which is a dialect of Visual Basic.

From its first version Excel supported end-user programming of macros and user-defined functions .

All versions of Excel, including Excel 2010 are capable of running an XLM macro, though Microsoft discourages their use.

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Excel 2007 uses Office Open XML as its primary file format, an XML-based format that followed after a previous XML-based format called "XML Spreadsheet", first introduced in Excel 2002.

XML Spreadsheet format introduced in Excel 2002 is a simple, XML based format missing some more advanced features like storage of VBA macros.

Excel Mobile is a spreadsheet program that can edit XLSX files.

In 2015, Excel Mobile became available for Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile on Windows Store.

Excel for the web is a free lightweight version of Microsoft Excel available as part of Office on the web, which includes web versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Microsoft Excel Viewer was a freeware program for Microsoft Windows for viewing and printing spreadsheet documents created by Excel.

Excel's implementation involves conversions between binary and decimal representations, leading to accuracy that is on average better than one would expect from simple fifteen digit precision, but that can be worse.

Particularly in the arena of statistical functions, Excel has been criticized for sacrificing accuracy for speed of calculation.

Accuracy and convenience of statistical tools in Excel has been criticized, as mishandling missing data, as returning incorrect values due to inept handling of round-off and large numbers, as only selectively updating calculations on a spreadsheet when some cell values are changed, and as having a limited set of statistical tools.

Excel became the first spreadsheet to allow the user to define the appearance of spreadsheets .

Excel introduced auto-fill, the ability to drag and expand the selection box to automatically copy a cell or row contents to adjacent cells or rows, adjusting the copies intelligently by automatically incrementing cell references or contents.