19 Facts About Microsoft 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 Microsoft Excel supported end-user programming of macros and user-defined functions .

Microsoft 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 Microsoft Excel 2002.

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

The most common are Dynamic Data Exchange: although strongly deprecated by Microsoft Excel, this is a common method to send data between applications running on Windows, with official MS publications referring to it as "the protocol from hell".

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

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

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

Microsoft 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, Microsoft Excel has been criticized for sacrificing accuracy for speed of calculation.

Accuracy and convenience of statistical tools in Microsoft 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.

Microsoft Excel originally marketed a spreadsheet program called Multiplan in 1982.

Microsoft Excel maintained its advantage with regular new releases, every two years or so.

Microsoft Excel belatedly took steps to prevent the misuse by adding the ability to disable macros completely, to enable macros when opening a workbook or to trust all macros signed using a trusted certificate.

Unlike Microsoft Word, there never was a DOS version of Excel.

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

Microsoft 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.