MICROSOFT EXCEL

Presented by:

Marilyn Martin

Coleen Valencia

John Mark Tamondong

HISTORY OF MICROSOFT EXCEL

Microsoft originally marketed a spreadsheet program called Multiplan in 1982, which was very

popular on CP/M systems, but on MS-DOS systems it lost popularity to Lotus 1-2-3.

This promoted development of a new spreadsheet called Excel which started with the intention

to 'do everything 1-2-3 does and do it better'.

The first version of Excel was released for the Mac in 1985 and the first Windows version was

released in November 1987.

Lotus was slow to bring 1-2-3 to Windows and by 1988 Excel had started to outsell 1-2-3 and

helped Microsoft achieve the position of leading PC software developer.

This accomplishment, dethroning the king of the software world,

solidified Microsoft as a valid competitor and showed its future of

developing graphical software.

Microsoft pushed its advantage with regular new releases, every

two years or so. The current version for the Windows platform is

Excel 11, also called Microsoft Office Excel 2003. The current

version for the Mac OS X platform is Microsoft Excel 2004.

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application

developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows, Mac

OS X, and iOS. It features calculation, graphing

tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming

language called Visual Basic for Applications. 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 Microsoft Office.

In 1978, Harvard Business School student Dan Bricklin

developed a program called VisiCalc. It was a relatively

small program with few basic capabilities. It could only

calculate data within a matrix of 5 columns by 20 rows.

To make VisiCalc more powerful Bricklin hired Bob

Frankston, who is also known as the co-creator of VisiCalc.

Frankston made the program fast and with better

arithmetic. VisiCalc was an instant success and the duo were

able to sell around 1 million copies of the program.

It all started with VisiCalc

The VisiCalc- First ever Electronic Spreadsheet

SUPERCALCSuperCalc was a spreadsheet application published by Sorcim in

1980, and originally bundled (along with WordStar) as part of the

CP/M software package included with the Osborne 1 portable

computer. It quickly became the de facto standard spreadsheet for

CP/M and was ported to MS-DOS in 1982.

An improvement over VisiCalc, SuperCalc was notable for being

one of the first spreadsheet programs capable of iteratively solving

circular references (cells that depend on each other's results). It

would be over 10 years after the introduction of SuperCalc before

this feature was implemented in Microsoft Excel, although in Lotus

1-2-3, manual programming of iterative logic could also be used to

solve this issue.

According to the SuperCalc product manager, iterative calculations

were added when Sorcim changed from BCD to Binary math. Since the

precision of the two math packages was different, some IF statements

resolved differently, and iterative calculations helped solve this problem.

Versions of SuperCalc were later released for the Apple II family, for PCs

running DOS, and, after Sorcim was bought by CA Technologies (CA) in

the mid-1980s, for MS Windows (under the name CA-SuperCalc).

By the release of version 3 in March 1987, a million users were

claimed.New versions were published into the early 90s after which Excel

effectively came to dominate the spreadsheet market.

SUPERCALC

MULTIPLAN

Multiplan was an early spreadsheet program developed by

Microsoft. Known initially by the code name "EP" (for "Electronic

Paper"), it was introduced in 1982 as a competitor for VisiCalc.

Multiplan was released first for computers running CP/M; it was

developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part

of a portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as

MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64 and 128, Texas Instruments TI-

99/4A, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, TRS-80 Model 4, TRS-80

Model 100 (on ROM), Apple II, and Burroughs B-20 series.

Despite the release of Microsoft Chart, a graphics

companion program, Multiplan continued to be

outsold by Lotus 1-2-3. It was replaced by Microsoft

Excel, which followed some years later on both the

Apple Macintosh (1985) and Microsoft Windows

(1987).

Around 1983, during the development of the first

release of Windows, Microsoft had plans to make a

Windows version. However the plans changed a year

later.

MULTIPLAN

After the phenomenal success of VisiCalc, SuperCalc &

Multiplan, a team headed by Mitch Kapor in 1983, developed a

new spreadsheet program called Lotus 1-2-3. Mitch and his team

power packed Lotus 1-2-3 with charting, graphing and

rudimentary database capabilities along with the basic

arithmetic. This made Lotus 1-2-3 a new favorite in the industry.

Although, before this in 1982 Microsoft had already launched

Multiplan but it was outshined by Lotus 1-2-3. And this thing

provoked Microsoft to come up with Microsoft Excel and rest is

history.

Lotus 1-2-3

LOTUS 1-2-3

EXCEL 1.0

Excel 1.0 was one of the first spreadsheet

program 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 released for Macintosh.

EXCEL 1.0

EXCEL 2.0

Excel 2.0 was the first Windows version of

excel and was labelled “2” to correspond to

the Mac version. This also included a run-

time version for Windows.

Excel 2.0 is the first version of Excel for Intel

platform. There never was an Excel 1.0 for DOS or

Windows.

EXCEL 2.0

EXCEL 3.0

The Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF) is a spreadsheet file

format developed by Microsoft. BIFF 3 is the native file format of

Microsoft Excel 3.0 for Windows. The format is proprietary and

Microsoft does not make details of its structure public. The

information contained here is derived primarily from

OpenOffice.org's reverse-engineered documentation of the format,

and should not therefore be regarded as definitive. BIFF is a stream

based format, and a BIFF 3 file comprises a single worksheet stream,

containing a Beginning of File (BOF) record, followed by a series of

Worksheet records, and terminated by an End of File (EOF) record.

EXCEL 3.0

EXCEL 4.0

Excel 4.0 was the first popular version of Excel. It had

better mouse implementation, more shortcuts,

customizable toolbars and introduction of fill handle.

Introduced auto-fill.

Also, an Easter egg in Excel 4.0 reveals a hidden

animation of a dancing set of numbers 1 through 3,

representing Lotus 1-2-3, which was then crushed by an

Excel logo.

EXCEL 4.0

EXCEL 5.0

Excel 5.0 was a major upgrade which included multi-sheet

workbooks and support for VBA. This was a major break

through as now users could record macros to automate

repetitive tasks.

With version 5.0, Excel has included Visual Basic for

Applications (VBA), a programming language based on

Visual Basic which adds the ability to automate tasks in

Excel and to provide user-defined functions (UDF) for use in

worksheets. VBA is a powerful addition to the application

and includes a fully featured integrated development

environment (IDE).

Macro recording can produce VBA code replicating

user actions, thus allowing simple automation of regular

tasks. VBA allows the creation of forms and in‑worksheet

controls to communicate with the user. The language

supports use (but not creation) of ActiveX (COM) DLL's;

later versions add support for class modules allowing the

use of basic object-oriented programming techniques.

EXCEL 5.0

EXCEL 7.0

Excel 7.0 is also known as Excel 95. it was the first major

32-bit version of Excel. Almost no external changes, but it

was faster and more stable.

Released in 1995 with Microsoft Office for Windows 95,

this is the first major version after Excel 5.0, as there is no

Excel 6.0.

Internal rewrite to 32-bits. Almost no external changes,

but faster and more stable.

EXCEL 7.0

EXCEL 8.0

Included in Office 97 (for x86 and Alpha). This

was a major upgrade that introduced the paper

clip office assistant and featured standard VBA

used instead of internal Excel Basic. It introduced

the now-removed Natural Language labels. This

version of Excel includes a flight simulator as an

Easter Egg.

EXCEL 8.0

EXCEL 9.0

Included in Office 2000. This was a minor

upgrade, but introduced the upgrade to the

clipboard where it can hold multiple objects

at once. The Office Assistant, whose frequent

unsolicited appearance in Excel 97 had

annoyed many users, became less intrusive.

EXCEL 9.0

EXCEL 10.0

Included in Office XP. Very minor enhancements.

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 spreadsheets whenever

excel crashes.

EXCEL 10.0

EXCEL 11.0

Included in Office 2003. Minor

enhancements, most significant being the

new Tables.

Excel 11.0 or Excel 2003 and was a part

of Office 2003. It included the features like:

improved support for XML, a new “list

range” feature and the Smart Tag

enhancement.

EXCEL 11.0

However, an online survey reported that a majority of

respondents had a negative opinion of the change, with advanced

users being "somewhat more negative" than intermediate users,

and users reporting a self-estimated reduction in productivity.

Added functionality included the SmartArt set of editable

business diagrams. Also added was an improved management of

named variables through the Name Manager, and much improved

flexibility in formatting graphs, which allow (x, y) coordinate

labeling and lines of arbitrary weight. Several improvements to

pivot tables were introduced.

EXCEL 2007

Included in Office 2007. This release was a major

upgrade from the previous version. Similar to other

updated Office products, Excel in 2007 used the new

Ribbon menu system. This was different from what

users were used to, and was met with mixed reactions.

One study reported fairly good acceptance by users

except highly experienced users and users of word

processing applications with a classical WIMP interface,

but was less convinced in terms of efficiency and

organization.

EXCEL 2007

EXCEL 2010

Included in Office 2010, this is the next major version

after v12.0, as version number 13 was skipped.

Minor enhancements and 64-bit support, including the

following:

Multi-threading recalculation (MTR) for commonly

used functions

Improved pivot tables

More conditional formatting options

Additional image editing capabilities

In-cell charts called spark lines

Ability to preview before pasting

Office 2010 backstage feature for document-related

tasks

Ability to customize the Ribbon

Many new formulas, most highly specialized to

improve accuracy

EXCEL 2010

EXCEL 2013

Included in Office 2013, along with a lot of new

tools included in this release:

Improved Multi-threading and Memory

Contention

Flash Fill Timeline Slicer

Windows App Power View

Inquire PowerPivot

50 new functions

EXCEL 2013