EXCEL VERSIONS

What interpretation of Excel Do I Have?

Analogous to other software, Excel has multitudinous options depending on the requirements of its druggies. As time passes, advancement occurs in each interpretation of the operations. utmost of the time, people want to know what features they can mileage themselves in an operation. Talking about Excel, you must want to know about what features and options it has so that you can have an idea whether this interpretation of Excel can fulfil your conditions or not.

So principally, the question is how do you know what interpretation of Excel do you have?

At times, it could be tricky to know what interpretation of Excel you're using. Other than the launching time, you need to know about other features as well. For case, Excel 2019 has two different performances for Office 365 and others. With the information about the exact interpretation, you'll be suitable to understand bug fixes as well as their new updates.

It's important to know which interpretation of Excel you're using

There have been 30 different performances of Excel, stretching from 1985 to the present day. These days most druggies' moment will have Excel 2016, 2019, 2021 or 365.Each interpretation of Excel has been significantly different to the last, and the Mac and Windows performances are still veritably different moment. If you need to learn Ms Excel we explosively recommend that you learn using Excel 365 rather than one of the heritage performances.

Section I: Table of Contents

1. Excel 365
2. Excel 2021
3. Excel 2019, Excel 2016, and Excel 365
4. Excel 2013 for Windows
5. Excel 2011 for Mac
6. Excel 2010 for Windows
7. Excel 2008 for Mac
8. Excel 2007 for Windows
9. Excel 2004 for Mac
10. Excel 2003 for Windows
11. Older versions of Windows (2002, 2000, 97, 95, 4.0, 3.0, 2.0)
12. Older Mac OS/2 versions (2.2, 2.3, 3) (2001, 2000, 98, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)

Excel 365

Excel 365 is designed to last indefinitely. rather of the traditional three- time update cycle, 365 is a continually changing product with new features added with each new interpretation release.

Microsoft established the notion of" update channels" for Office 365 because commercial druggies do not want frequent change (and want gemstone-solid stable releases). Large commercial druggies might choose to get updates every six months. This offered a dependable and tried- and-true "Semi-annual" interpretation in January and July of each time. The Smart Method accommodates Office 365's ever- changing nature by issuing a new interpretation of our books whenever substantial new features are released. At the time of jotting (February 2022), we had just published the sixth edition, which covered the month of January.

There have been some amazing features added to Excel 365 since 2019 but absolutely nothing compares to the preface of Dynamic Arrays and Dynamic Array functions in the July 2020 release. This isn't a trivial change. The Excel machine had to be fully re-engineered to fete the new dynamic array conception. 2021 saw the preface of Automatic Data Analysis and Natural Language Queries (features that weren't included in the Excel 2021 release). Linked data types have also been monstrously expanded (formerly again a 365- only point). We 've also set up some great operations for Custom Data Types (another point introduced veritably lately) and (in the 2021 and 365 Expert Chops books) partake our perpetration of multi-lingual forms and reports that can now be created really fluently using this new point.

In Excel 365 a huge number of aged Excel functions can now work in an entirely new way and some old favourite's have been replaced by ultramodern array- apprehensive functions. For illustration VLOOKUP has been replaced by XLOOKUP (an ultramodern array function that's further protean, easier to use and more important).

The new dynamic array capability took Excel 365 into a different league to Excel 2019. Dynamic arrays are unnaturally inharmonious with Excel 2019 and will affect in ultramodern workbooks (created with Excel 365) not working as anticipated in heritage performances. Excel 2021 doesn't have this problem as it supports dynamic arrays.

Excel 365 is the rearmost, topmost and most important Excel interpretation you can use and it's available for a veritably.

Excel 2021

numerous observers suspected that there would now a day be an Excel 2021 but they were wrong for an alternate time. It does feel strange to release yet another "perpetual licence" interpretation of Office that would be vended alongside Excel 365.

It's clear that Microsoft have fully embraced the SaaS (software as a service) model where software is rented and not vended. They feel to have also conceded that there are some purchasers that still prefer the "buy formerly use ever" model.

Numerous observers are now assuming, formerly again, that Excel 2021 really is the last in the line of perpetual licensed performances. The current Excel 2021 interpretation is formerly monstrously behind Excel 365 with the "killer features" of linked data types, automatic analysis and Natural Language Queries only available to Excel 365 druggies as no new features will ever be added to Excel 2021. The huge upgrade for Excel 2021 was the addition of the dynamic arrays along with a suite of new dynamic array functions. Our Excel 2021 books were published in February 2022.

2019 Excel

Numerous analysts conjectured that an Excel 2019 would never materialise. Up until the very last moment, Microsoft kept us in the dark about the existence of a second "perpetual licence" edition of Office that would be marketed in addition to Excel 365. It is evident that Microsoft has fully embraced the software as a service (SaaS) paradigm, in which software is rented rather than purchased. It appears that they have also admitted that some customers still like the "buy once, use forever" concept. Excel 2019 may indeed be the final edition in the series of perpetually licenced products, according to many observers' current conjectures. With the "killer feature" of dynamic arrays only accessible to Excel 365, the current Excel 2019 version is already far behind Excel 365.

Excel 2016 and Excel 2016 for users of Office 365

Two things set Excel 2016 apart from earlier iterations of the programme:

1. Despite being significantly different, the Mac and Windows versions were both referred to as "Excel 2016" (earlier versions used separate year numbers to avoid confusion).
2. If you were an Office 365 member, you were sent updates over the Internet that significantly altered your version of "Excel 2016" in comparison to a non-365 user's.

It was challenging to provide learning materials for this version of Excel since we had to keep updating our Excel 2016 book to accommodate both Excel 2016 and Excel 2016 for Office 365 users. Over the course of the product's existence, the two versions diverged significantly from,

Excel 365 and 2016 on Windows

Starting with Excel 2016, Microsoft started providing frequent online feature upgrades rather than saving the addition of new functionality for major version releases. Users with boxed retail versions have a substantially different version of Excel than Office 365 users since these new capabilities were exclusive to Office 365 customers.

To clarify any discrepancies between the Office 365 version and the packaged retail editions of Excel, our publications were updated on a regular basis.

Excel 2016 on a Mac

For the first time since 2000, Microsoft decided to keep the Excel 2016 names consistent across the Mac and Windows platforms. Even yet, there are still a lot of variations between the two apps, partly due to the different UI of the iOS operating system.

Here is a list of the differences between Excel 2016 for Mac and Windows.

Just as it does for Windows, Microsoft provides feature upgrades for Excel 2016 for Mac users via the internet, and our courses are regularly updated to take advantage of these improvements. For those who have Excel 2016 for Mac, use the Mac version of our courses.

2013 Excel (Windows)

Excel 2013 brought 50 new functions, Slicers, and the new Flash Fill feature, but it was only available for Windows machines.

If you need to study Excel 2013, you should take our e-book or book-based Excel 2013 course.

Mac Excel 2011

Excel 2011 was exclusively made available for Mac machines. It was the final iteration of Excel for Mac that was called something different from its Windows equivalent.

This was the 13th version of Excel for Mac, much as Excel 2010 for Windows, however number 13 was omitted due to superstitious beliefs, and Excel 2011 was proclaimed to be version 14.

Although we don't have a course for Excel 2011, we do have one for Excel 2016 that is comprehensive.

2010 Excel (Windows)

Excel 2010 was exclusively made available on Windows-based systems. It included support for multiple threads, sparklines, Ribbon customisation, and the backstage view, among other new features.

Since 13 is thought to be an unlucky number, Microsoft skipped version 13 and officially designated Excel 2010 as version 14, even though it was really the 13th edition of the programme!

We still have Excel 2010 books and e-books accessible if you need to study the programme. However, we highly advise against using this version because Microsoft no longer offers security fixes, which means that if a hacker finds a backdoor into Office 2010, they might compromise your machine.