Microsoft Excel is the largest used Reporting and Data Analysis application now a days. Active window capture. Its important to know the Microsoft Excel version history since the version 1. The table below lists the various versions of Excel for Windows.
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VERSION | RELEASED | DESCRIPTION |
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1 | 1985 | Version 1, for the Macintosh was released. There never was an Excel 1.0 for DOS or Windows. |
2 | 1987 | Excel 2.0 is the first version of Excel for Intel platform. |
3 | 1990 | Included Toolbars, drawing capabilities, outlining, add-in support, 3D charts, and many more new features. |
4 | 1992 | The first 'popular' version. Included lots of usability features. |
5 | 1993 | A major upgrade. Included multi-sheet workbooks. Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) was introduced in this version. |
7 | 1995 | Known as Excel 95. The first major 32-bit version of Excel. This is the first major version after Excel 5.0, as there is no Excel 6.0. Almost no external changes, but faster and more stable. |
8 | 1997 | Known as Excel 97. A new interface for VBA developers, UserForms, Data Validation, and lots more. This was a major upgrade that introduced the paper clip office assistant and featured standard VBA used instead of internal Excel Basic. It introduced the now-removed Natural Language labels. |
9 | 2000 | Included in Microsoft Office 2000. What is an external hard drive. This was a minor upgrade, but introduced the upgrade to the clipboard where it can hold multiple objects at once. The Office Assistant, whose frequent unsolicited appearance in Excel 97 had annoyed many users, became less intrusive.Can use HTML as a native file format, 'self-repair' capability, pivot charts, modeless user forms. |
10 | 2002 | Known as Excel 2002. Included in Office XP. It has a long list of new features, but most of them will probably be of little value to the majority of users. Perhaps the most significant feature is the ability to recover your work when Excel crashes. This version features product activation technology. Please consider the ramifications of this before deciding whether to upgrade. |
11 | 2003 | Known as Microsoft Office Excel 2003. The new features in this version are:
Most users will not find the upgrade worthwhile. |
12 | 2007 | Included in Microsoft Office 2007. This release was a major upgrade from the previous version. Similar to other updated Office products, Excel in 2007 used the new Ribbon menu system. This was different from what users were used to, and was met with mixed reactions. One study reported fairly good acceptance by users except highly experienced users and users of word processing applications with a classical WIMP interface, but was less convinced in terms of efficiency and organisation. However, an online survey reported that a majority of respondents had a negative opinion of the change, with advanced users being 'somewhat more negative' than intermediate users, and users reporting a self-estimated reduction in productivity. The new features included in this version are:
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14 | 2010 | Included in Microsoft Office 2010, this is the next major version after version 12, as version number 13 was skipped. Minor enhancements and 64-bit support, including the following features:
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15 | 2013 | Included in Microsoft Office 2013, along with a lot of new tools included in this release:
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Represents a Microsoft Excel workbook.
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The Workbook object is a member of the Workbooks collection. The Workbooks collection contains all the Workbook objects currently open in Microsoft Excel.
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The ThisWorkbook property of the Application object returns the workbook where the Visual Basic code is running. In most cases, this is the same as the active workbook. However, if the Visual Basic code is part of an add-in, the ThisWorkbook property won't return the active workbook. In this case, the active workbook is the workbook calling the add-in, whereas the ThisWorkbook property returns the add-in workbook.
If you are creating an add-in from your Visual Basic code, you should use the ThisWorkbook property to qualify any statement that must be run on the workbook that you compile into the add-in.
Example
Use Workbooks (index), where index is the workbook name or index number, to return a single Workbook object. The following example activates workbook one.
The index number denotes the order in which the workbooks were opened or created. Workbooks(1)
is the first workbook created, and Workbooks(Workbooks.Count)
is the last one created. Activating a workbook doesn't change its index number. Apk premiere pro cc. All workbooks are included in the index count, even if they are hidden.
The Name property returns the workbook name. You cannot set the name by using this property; if you need to change the name, use the SaveAs method to save the workbook under a different name.
The following example activates Sheet1 in the workbook named Cogs.xls (the workbook must already be open in Microsoft Excel).
The ActiveWorkbook property of the Application object returns the workbook that's currently active. The following example sets the name of the author for the active workbook.
This example emails a worksheet tab from the active workbook by using a specified email address and subject. To run this code, the active worksheet must contain the email address in cell A1, the subject in cell B1, and the name of the worksheet to send in cell C1.
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Microsoft Excel 5.0 For Windows (In - Computer Training ..
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