New features Log in / create account Article Discussion Read Edit View history Microsoft Excel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet application written Navigation Microsoft Excel and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features Main page calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called VBA Contents (Visual Basic for Applications). It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these Featured content platforms, especially since version 5 in 1993. Excel forms part of Microsoft Office. The Current events current versions are Microsoft Office Excel 2010 for Windows and 2008 for Mac. Random article Contents 1 Basic operation Interaction 2 VBA programming About Wikipedia 3 Charts Community portal 4 Using other Microsoft applications Recent changes 5 Using external data A typical blank Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheet Contact Wikipedia 6 Quirks running on Windows 7. Donate to Wikipedia 6.1 Statistical functions Developer(s) Microsoft Help 6.2 Graphing Stable release 2010 (14.0.4760.1000) / June 6.3 Excel MOD function error 15, 2010 Toolbox 6.4 Date problems 6.5 Filenames Operating system Microsoft Windows What links here 7 Accuracy Type Spreadsheet Related changes 8 History License Proprietary Upload file 8.1 Excel 2.0 Website Microsoft Excel Windows Special pages 8.2 Excel 5.0 Permanent link 8.3 Excel 2000 Microsoft Excel (Mac OS X) Cite this page 8.4 Excel 2007 Inc., 8.5 Excel 2010 2010 Print/export 9 Versions Testing, 17, 9.1 Microsoft Windows Drug Create a book 9.2 Apple Macintosh on September Download as PDF 9.3 OS/2 Printable version v. Comprehensivearchived 10 File formatsU.S. 10.1 Binary 05-10067 Languages 10.2 XMLNo. Spreadsheet 10.3 Standard file-extensions ﺔﯿﺑﺮﻌﻟا 10.4 Office Open XML Azərbaycanca 11 Export and migration of spreadsheets 12 See also Bosanski 13 References Български 14 General references Microsoft Excel: Mac 2008 spreadsheet running on Català 15 External links Mac OS X 10.5. Česky Developer(s) Microsoft Dansk Deutsch Basic operation [edit] Stable release 2008 SP2 (12.2.3 Build 091001) / November 10, Eesti Main article: Spreadsheet 2009; 10 months ago Español [1] Operating system Mac OS X Microsoft Excel has the basic features of all spreadsheets, using a grid of cells ﯽﺳرﺎﻓ Français arranged in numbered rows and letter-named columns to organize data manipulations Type Spreadsheet Galego like arithmetic operations. It has a battery of supplied functions to answer statistical, License Proprietary 한국어 engineering and financial needs. In addition, it can display data as line graphs, Website Microsoft Excel: Mac 2008 हद histograms and charts, and with a very limited three-dimensional graphical display. It Hrvatski allows sectioning of data to view its dependencies on various factors from different [2] Bahasa Indonesia perspectives (using pivot tables and the scenario manager ). And it has a programming aspect, Visual Basic for Applications, allowing [3][4] Italiano the user to employ a wide variety of numerical methods, for example, for solving differential equations of mathematical physics, and then reporting the results back to the spreadsheet. Finally, it has a variety of interactive features allowing user interfaces that can תירבע ქართული completely hide the spreadsheet from the user, so the spreadsheet presents itself as a so-called application, or decision support system [5] Lëtzebuergesch (DSS), via a custom-designed user interface, for example, a stock analyzer, or in general, as a design tool that asks the user questions [6][7][8] Lietuvių and provides answers and reports. In a more elaborate realization, an Excel application automatically can poll external databases [9] म राठ and measuring instruments using an update schedule, analyze the results, make a Word report or Power Point slide show, and e-mail Nederlands these presentations on a regular basis to a list of participants. 日本語 Norsk (bokmål) VBA programming [edit] Polski Main article: Visual basic for applications Português Română The Windows version of Excel supports programming through Română Русский Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which is a subset of Visual Basic. Programming with VBA allows Simple English spreadsheet manipulation that is impossible with standard Slovenščina spreadsheet techniques. Programmers may write code directly Српски / Srpski using the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) accessed using the Visual Suomi Basic icon on the Developer Tab. Clicking that icon opens a Svenska window to the Visual Basic editing environment, which includes a window for writing code and a sophisticated debugging and தமி ไทย code module organization environment. The user can [10] Türkçe implement virtually any numerical method in VBA and guide Українська the calculation using any desired intermediate results reported Tiếng Việt back to the spreadsheet. In the Mac version, VBA support has been discontinued ייִ שיד 中文 as of Excel 2008 as the developers did not deem a timely release would allow porting the VBA engine Use of a user-defined function sq(x) in Microsoft Excel. The named variables x natively to the Mac OS X. However, later : “The Mac & y are identified in the Name Manager. The function sq is introduced using the Visual Basic editor supplied with Excel. BU also announced it is bringing VBA-language support back to the next version of Office for Mac.” Lack of VBA support is a major emasculation of this software. The most common and easiest way to generate VBA code is by using the Macro Recorder.[11] The Macro Recorder records the mouse and keyboard actions of the user and generates VBA code that is then contained within a macro. These actions can then be repeated automatically by running the macro. The macros can also be linked to different trigger types like keyboard shortcuts, a command button or a graphic. The actions in the macro can be executed from these trigger types or from the generic toolbar options. The VBA code of the macro can also be edited in the VBE. Certain features such as loop functions and screen prompts by their own properties, and some graphical display items, cannot be recorded, but must be entered into the VBA module directly by the programmer. Macros can be activated using a button using the form menu, Subroutine in ExcelInc., calculates the square of named column variable x read and advanced users can employ user prompts to create an Testing,from the spreadsheet, 17, and 2010writes it into the named column variable y. interactive program. Drug VBA code interacts with the spreadsheet through the Objecton ModelSeptember,[12] a vocabulary identifying spreadsheet objects, and a set of supplied functions or methods that enable reading and writing to the spreadsheet and interaction with its users (for example, through v. Comprehensivearchived custom toolbarsU.S. or command bars and message boxes). User-created VBA subroutines execute these actions and operate like macros generated using the 05-10067macro recorder, but are more flexible and efficient. No. Charts [edit] Like some other spreadsheet applications, Microsoft Excel supports charts, graphs or histograms generated from specified groups of cells. The generated graphic component either can be embedded within the current sheet, or added as a separate object. These displays are dynamically updated if cells change content, making a useful design tool. For example, suppose that the important design requirements are displayed visually; then, in response to a user's change in trial values for parameters, the curves describing the design change shape, and their points of intersection shift, assisting the selection of the best design. [edit] Using other Microsoft applications Graph made using Microsoft Excel This section requires expansion. Applications like Microsoft Access and Microsoft Word can "talk" to each other and to Excel, and made to use each others' capabilities. One can create a letter template using Microsoft Word and insert keywords that correspond to different sets of data in Microsoft Excel. These keywords, marked in red, will be replaced by different words or numbers entered into an Excel spreadsheet. These letter forms can be used to create multiple letters dealing with the same type of information, but changed depending on the specific recipient. Student grade reports, public information letters, and "Junk Mail" are all created in this type of way.[13][14][15][16] Using external data [edit] This section requires expansion. Excel users can access external data sources via Microsoft Office features such as (for example) .odc connections built with the Office Data Connection file format. These are static snapshots of data, and require either manual or programmatic intervention to update. Excel files themselves may be updated using a Microsoft supplied ODBC driver. Excel can accept data in real time through several programming interfaces, which allow it to communicate with many data sources such as Bloomberg and Reuters. DDE : Dynamic Data Exchange. Uses the message passing mechanism in Windows to allow data to flow between Excel and other applications. Although it is easy for users to create such links, programming such links reliably is so difficult that Microsoft, the creators of the system, officially refer to it as "the protocol from hell".[17] In spite of its many issues DDE remains the most common way for data to reach traders in financial markets. Network DDE Extended the protocol to allow spreadsheets on different computers to exchange data. Given the view above, it is not surprising that in Vista, Microsoft no longer supports the facility.[18] Real Time Data : RTD although in many ways technically superior to DDE, has been slow to gain acceptance, since it requires non trivial programming skills, and when first released was inadequately documented, and initially was not supported by the major data vendors.[19][20] Alternatively, Microsoft Query provides ODBC-based browsing within Microsoft Excel.[21][22][23] Quirks [edit] A major complaint is finding relevant assistance from the associated help system.