Microsoft Excel : Top 12 Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know

Discover Amazing Facts You Didn’t Know About Excel

Microsoft Excel is an amazing software to manage large amounts of data and organise your work. But did you know that initially, the company did not call Excel as Excel? Did you know how many cells does a spreadsheet have or how many actions can be undone?

keySkillset created an info graphic depicting top 11 facts you didn’t know about Excel, but worth remembering. Here, we have listed out 5 facts. For the rest of the facts, do download the infographic that we have given at the end of the blog.

1. In 1985 Microsoft released Excel and entered into an exclusive contract with Apple. The condition was to not launch the software for PC in exchange for code details for MAC system features. Therefore, only MAC version contained Excel for the first 2 years.

1. In 1985 Microsoft released Excel and entered into an exclusive contract with Apple. The condition was to not launch the software for PC in exchange for code details for MAC system features. Therefore, only MAC version contained Excel for the first 2 years.
2. Excel software was based on two main components: graphical Multi plan spread sheet combined with charting application designed by MAC.
3. The father of Excel software was Charles Simonyi.
4. Some of the Excel functions are taking for granted. For example, users consider Paste Special, Array or Print Preview as obscure features. The idea of Pivot Table feature did not come initially from Microsoft. Lotus developed the application called IMPROV in 1991, which was accepted straight away. However, the Lotus competitors liked the feature as well and decided to implement it by simply changing the name.
5. There are a lot of numerical facts about Excel. For example, a spreadsheet can have up to 512 fonts or a cell can have up to 32,767 characters. For more interesting data check the info graphic below.

Now that's how much fun it is to learn with keySkillset, for the rest of the other 6 striking facts download the image and use it as you wish.

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