The Spreadsheet in a digital form has existed since 1978. The first time this software is introduced by VisiCalc created in 1978 by the students of the Harvard Business School named dan Bricklin. The Software created is still very basis of where the spreadsheet was made only consists of 5 columns and 20 Rows only. Since that time Bob Frankston bermintra with Bricklin make an advanced version made and successful. One of the successes of the spreadsheet as the VisiCalc is a Lotus 1-2-3 made by a team led by Mitch Kapor in 1983. The results of the development of the VisiCalc by adding the Chart and the function of basic database with the traffic calculation of VisiCalc. Lotus 1-2-3 became very successful and beat its predecessor VisiCalc.
In 1982 where the development of Lotus 1-2-3 is still being conducted, Microsoft is making a spreadsheet of her own called MultiPlan. This Program was developed to be run on the Operating System CP/M and MS-DOS which is still unbeaten by Lotus 1-2-3 have been running in the OS-based MS-DOS. MultiPlan continued to be developed and finally in 1985, MultiPlan changed its name to Excel. And for the first time the spreadsheet is using the appearance-based Graphic ( Graphical User Interface) although can only be used only on Apple Mac.
In 1987, microsoft for the first time producing Excel for the version of Windows Operating System that is named Excel 2.0. Although this is the first version in the Windows OS, the figure 2 is used to adjust from the previous version in Mac.
The following is a timeline of the development of Microsoft Excel from year to year.
Excel Version 1.0 (1985)
Microsoft Excel Version 1.0 only for Macintosh was released.
Excel Version 2.0 (1987)
Microsoft Version 2.0 is the first version for Windows based OS.
Excel Version 3.0 (1990)
Added toolbars, drawing capabilities (Drawing), Outlining, add-ins, 3D Charts and other new features.
Excel version 4.0 (1992)
The first popular version of Excel, added Auto-fill.
and also in this version there is an Easter Egg (Hidden Message) which has been found where there is a hidden Animation of a set of 1 to 3 moving Numbers (symbol for Lotus 1-2-3) being destroyed by the Excel Logo.
Excel Version 5.0 (1993)
Major Update, Added Multi Sheet Workbook and also Support Visual Basic For Application (VBA) called Macros.
In this version also found an Easter Egg (hidden message) called “Hall of Tortured Souls”.
Excel version 7.0 (1995) – Excel 95
The first version of Excel made in the 32-bit version for all its features is almost the same as version 5.0. And no Excel version 6.0.
Excel 97 (1997) – version 8.0
Included in Office 97, Added a paper clip Office Assistant, a new look at the Visual Basic Editor, UserForm, Data Validation and others.
In this version also found a hidden message (Easter Egg) in the form of a Flight Simulator game.
Excel 2000 (1999) – Version 9.0
Can use HTML as a File Format, adds “Self-Repair” capability, Clipboard, Pivot Chart and Modeless User Form.
Excel 2002 (2001) – Version 10.0
Included in Office XP. Lots of additions but these features are less effective for most users. The most significant is the ability to recover files when Excel Crash.
Excel 2003 (2003) – Version 11.0
Improved Support for XML, added “List Range” Features, Smart Tags, Correction of Statistical Functions.
Excel 2007 – Version 12.0
Introducing the Ribbon Menu System. add SmartArt. Introducing the Office Open XML file Format. XLSX for Excel Files without Macros and XLSM for Excel Files with Macros.
Excel 2010- Version 14.0
No version 13.0. For the first time Excel Support 64-bit. Added new features Sparkline Graphic, Pivot Table Slicer.
Excel 2013 – Version 15.0
Added FlashFill, Power View, Power Pivot, Timeline Slicer and more
Excel 2016 – Version 16.0
Added Power Query, Read Only Mode, Forcasting Function, New Chart Type, Excel Data Cards.
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