Excel Article (alexander Chow)

Alexander Chow 10/4/07 Software Application A, Pd.7 Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called VBA. Excel is one of the most popular microcomputer applications to date. It is overwhelmingly the dominant spreadsheet application available for these platforms and has been so since version 5 in 1993, and its bundled as part of Microsoft Office. Excel also supports the second date format based on year 1904 epoch. On September 22, 2007 it was reported that Excel 2007 will show incorrect results in certain situations. Excel will report their product as 100,000.