History Of Microsoft Excel

THE HISTORY OF Microsoft Excel FROM [1978 - 2013] How Electronic Spreadsheets came to Existence? In 1978, Harvard Business School student Dan Bricklin (the father of Modern Day Spreadsheets) had to do some analysis task for his case study. To do this he had Ci1 (L) TOTAL two alternatives: 1) do it by hand or 2) use a clumsy mainframe program. Bricklin thought there must be a better way. ITEM NO. UNIT AUSK RAKE CUT SUBTOTAL 9.75% TAX He envisioned "an electronic blackboard TOTAL 14438.16 and electronic chalk in a classroom". VisiCalc - The First Ever Electronic SpreadSheet By the fall of 1978, Bricklin had programmed the first working prototype of his concept which he named VisiCalc. The first version of VisiCalc could manipulate a matrix of five columns and 20 rows. Though it wasn't even close to the modern day spreadsheets but still VisiCalc was an instant success. A Brief History of Microsoft Excel 1978 VISICALC It was the first ever electronic spreadsheet program, originally released for the Apple II. Capabilities include: Basic arithmetic operations, 1980 Instant automatic recalculation and Scrolling. SuperCalc SuperCalc was a spreadsheet application published by Sorcim, it was originally bundled along with WordStar. SuperCalc was notable for being one of the first spreadsheet programs capable of iteratively solving circular references. 1982 MULTIPLAN. Multiplan was an early spreadsheet program developed by Microsoft. A fundamental difference between Multiplan and its competitors was Microsoft's decision to use R1C1 1983 addressing instead of the A1 addressing introduced by VisiCalc. 123 Lotus 1-2-3 improvised on all the basics embodied in SuperCalc. Along with being a spreadsheet, it also offered integral charting, graphing and rudimentary database 1985 operations. Microsoft Excel Excel 1.0 was one of the first spreadsheet programs to use a graphical interface with pull down menus and a point and click capability using a mouse pointing device. The first version was only 1987 released for Macintosh. MICROSOFT EXCEL Excel 2.0 was the first Windows version of Excel and was labelled "2" to correspond 1990 to the Mac version. This also included a run-time version of Windows. Microsoft Excel 3.0 included toolbars, drawing capabilities, outlining, add-in support, 3D charts, and many more 1992 new features. Micresoft Excel 4.0 was the first popular version of Excel. It had better mouse implementation, more shortcuts, customizable toolbars and 1993 introduction fill handle. Mrosof. Excel X Version 6.0 Excel 5.0 was a major upgrade which included multi-sheet workbooks and support for VBA. This was a major break through 1995 as now users could record macros to automate repetitive tasks. 4JEXcel Note: There is no Excel 6. This was done to make sure that all the Microsoft Office applications would have the same version Excel 7.0 is also known as Excel 95. number. It was the first major 32-bit version of Excel. Almost no external changes, but it was faster and more stable. 1997 Microsoft Excel 97 Excel 8.0 is also called Excel 97. 1999 It introduced the paper clip office assistant, validations and a new interface for VBA developers. Micrpsoft 2 Excel2000 MICHOSorT DFFICE Excel 9.0 is popularly known as Excel 2000. Improved the Clipboard to hold multiple objects at a time. It also introduced the feature of Excel Self-repair. 2001 Excel Microsoft Omce XP Excel 10.0 was a part of Office XP. It had some useful features like Background formula-auditing which identifies potential errors in the formulas and capability to recover 2003 spreadsheets whenever excel crashes. a Microsoft Office . Excel 2003 Excel 11.0 or Excel 2003 and was a part Office 2003. It included the features like: improved support for XML, a new "list range" feature and the Smart Tag enhancements. 2007 G.Office Excel. 2007 Excel 2007 introduced the .xlsx format and .xlsm format for workbooks with macros. The major change was the introduction of Ribbon menu system. 2010 Microsoft Excel 2010 Note: There is no Version 13 of Microsoft Excel. May be this has some connection with Numerology. :-) Excel 14.0 also known as Excel 2010 was a major upgrade. New features include extended image editing capabilities, sparkline graphics, improved pivot tables, ability to customise the ribbon and more 2013 conditional formatting options. Excel 2013 Excel 15.0 also known as Excel 2013, is the latest version of Microsoft Excel. It has lots of new features like PowerView, FlashFill and 50 new functions. Sources: http://dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/resource/excel_version_history http://chandoo.org/wp/2010/01/13/history-of-excel-timeline http://www.guidebookgallery.org/splashes/excel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel Created By: www.exceltrick.com