Excel History - Luisa Espita Medina

  • Excel 1.0

    Excel 1.0
    In 1985 Excel version 1.0 was released, especially for Apple Macintosh, this was the first version of Excel and its creation was fixed only for computers with Apple's MAC platform.
  • Launch of excel

    Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program suitable for creating and formatting workbooks. The first release of Excel was launched for the company MAC and this happened exactly in 1985.
  • Excel for Windows

    Two years later the first version of Excel for Windows was born, but due to the slowness that Lotus had with its spreadsheets, Windows managed to go ahead and created a software for PC spreadsheets. Currently there are several versions of this program.
  • Excel version 2.0 for Windows

    Excel version 2.0 for Windows
    In 1987 Excel comes out with version 2.0 for Windows, version 1.0 corresponded to Macintosh which includes a Windows runtime.
  • Excel releases version 3.0

    Excel releases version 3.0
    In 1990, Excel releases its 3.0 version which incorporates improvements with respect to appearance and certain functions such as toolbars, drawing features, 3d graphics, etc.
  • Excel 5.0

    Excel 5.0
    In 1993, Excel 5.0 was released for Windows and Mac. In this version they finally took care of allowing the creation of multiple sheets within the Excel workbook and also added support for the VBA programming language.
  • Excel 2000 version 9.0

    Excel 2000 version 9.0
    In 1999 Excel 2000 version 9.0 was born, with this version the HTML format was added as file format, multiple clipboards, pivot tables, among others.
  • Excel 2002 version 10

    Excel 2002 version 10
    Excel 2002 version 10, among its most outstanding features is the ability to save your work once Excel crashes, as well as recover damaged files and improvements in the function wizard.
  • In Excel 2008 version 12

    In Excel 2008 version 12
    In Excel 2008 version 12, a relevant feature was the change of the ribbon, improving the list concept by adding the Excel table concept.
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    Excel 2010 - 2014

    Excel 2010 - 2014, one of the versions that stands out the most, for 32 and 64 bits, with mini one-cell charts, great improvement in the control and attractiveness of pivot tables among others.
  • Excel 2016

    Excel 2016
    Excel 2016, with a map chart where you can have embedded maps that are part of the sheet in addition to facilitating the option to have the extra applications that extend the use of Excel. Pivot tables much more than previous versions, new graphics such as, for example the funnel chart, rectangles, etc.. There are also new functions such as avoiding the use of aggregate functions, templates, etc.