About MS Excel.?

Question

What is the history behind MS Excel?

Answer 1

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, in the words of Doug Klunder, '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 (numbered 2.0 to line-up with the Mac and bundled with a run-time Windows environment) 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.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel

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Answer 2

An Excel list provides features designed to make it easier to manage and analyze groups of related data in a worksheet. When you designate a range as a list, you can manage and analyze the data in the list independently of data outside the list. For example, using only the data contained within the list, you can filter columns, add a row for totals, and even create a PivotTable report, using only the data contained within the list.

Answer 3

Ms Excel is a spreadsheer program and is a part of ms offive package

Answer 4

Long article with full explanation and history here.

http://dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel