Microsoft Excel 1.03, 1.04, 1.06, 1.5, 2.2a, 3.0a, 4.0, 5.0a

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What is Microsoft Excel 1.03, 1.04, 1.06, 1.5, 2.2a, 3.0a, 4.0, 5.0a?

Microsoft Excel 1.03, 1.04, Microsoft Excel 1.5, Microsoft Excel 2.2a, Microsoft Excel 3.0, Microsoft Excel 4.0


Microsoft set the microcomputer world on its ear when it introduced Excel in 1985, selling a new spreadsheet standard and legitimizing the Macintosh for many corporate users. People actually bought Macintoshes just to be able to use Excel. It enjoyed such a lead over the competition, capturing up to 90 percent of the Mac spreadsheet market, that complacency was almost inevitable.

Sure enough, by 1989, Excel for the Macintosh was very long in the tooth, while Excel for the IBM PC seemed to be getting all of Microsoft's attention. Even the semi major update. Excel 1.5, didn't really address all of the program's short-comings. Microsoft's complacency created an opportunity for its competitors: Ashton-Tate’s Full Impact and Informix's Wingz both had strong debuts. With a host of spiffy features, many that Excel lacked, the rebels began an assault on Excel’s supremacy. But Microsoft wasn't completely asleep at the wheel, and with version 2.2, the empire strikes back.

WHAT IT IS Excel 2.2 is good news, too, because it's been completely rewritten and has many new features. Most major user complaints about previous versions have been addressed. The 1-megabyte limit, a major stumbling block for MultiFinder users, has fina11y been vanquished. Up to 256 fonts per worksheet can be used in any style. Notes can be attached to any cell. Search-and-replace commands for finding values, formulas, or text in cells or notes have been added.

Macros, an area where Excel was already strong, have been made even more powerful. New macro commands can watch for a specific time or for users pressing specific keys or activating particular windows. Text files can be created, opened, read from, written to, and saved with macro functions. All of the charting commands now have macro equivalents. You can even launch other applications from a macro when using MultiFinder or call custom-programmed functions or routines. When used with the Dialog Editor (introduced with version 1.5), Excel 2.2 can create custom applications.

There are also many smaller touches that are new. Every menu item is accessible from the keyboard, and Excel offers the same Full Menus/Short Menus choice that Word introduced. New commands include Repeat Command, which repeats the most-recent action: Justify, to wrap text to a cell range; and Hide and Unhide, to hide supporting worksheets or macro sheets. New Paste options are offered, such as Skip Blanks, Transpose a range of cells, and Paste Link to link cells and/or worksheets automatically. Excel 2.2 adds many customization options such as user-defined help topics. It now offers ways to switch between the Macintosh 1904 and the IBM 1900 date systems: set a default font; or hide the status, scroll, and formula bars.

Excel 2.2 features improved integration with other Microsoft applications. It supports RTF (rich text formatting), which is used by Word 4.0, and the QuickSwitch feature with Word is nothing short of astonishing. With QuickSwitch, charts or cell ranges copied from Excel to Word can be "hot-linked": when changes are made to the worksheets or charts, they can be automatically updated in Word, This kind of interapplication communication will become commonplace someday — when Apple releases System 7.0—but Microsoft has implemented a level of integration that goes beyond Apple's plans. For example, under MultiFinder, Word can automatically launch Excel, if it's not already running, to get the changed data. Excel also interfaces with Microsoft Mail, and you can electronically mail an active worksheet or chart by selecting Send Mail from the File menu. (It's not clear yet, though, whether the interapplication abilities of Microsoft's programs will conflict with or complement Apple’s forthcoming System-level approach,) Excel 2.2 comes with a detailed 700-page reference manual, a 26-page Quick Reference Guide, and a 330-page Functions and Macros manual. For some reason, the tutorial, Getting Started with Microsoft Excel, doesn't ship with the upgrade kits, but it is included with the retail edition. And for anyone needing help (regardless of which version you have), there is a 734K HyperCard Guided Tour, The status bar and expanded help function with a glossary make getting started with Excel fairly simple.

HOW IT WORKS Despite the improvements in Excel version 2,2, the program still kicks some of the features offered by its competition. Wingz has some sexier charting capabilities (notably 3-D effects) and supports more colors; Full Impact has an icon bar and wonderful default text colors. Both of these programs have application development and drawing capabilities that Excel lacks. So if these features are what you're looking for, and if you're willing to endure the hassle of file translation and retraining, you may find the competition preferable (see "Fitted Sheets," April '89 and "Wingz Weighs In," June ’89). Just be aware that you're going to find more people using Excel than Full Impact and Wingz combined.

The big-three spreadsheets are all roughly comparable. Each of them does one or two things better than the others, but the competition's functionality isn't a great enough improvement over Excel to displace the de facto standard in Mac spreadsheets. It's up to the challengers to be demonstrably better, and while they are much better than previous versions of Excel, they're only comparable to version 2.2. And for most users, parity isn't enough of an incentive to switch — especially when the package is as stable and bug-free as Excel 2.2 is.

So the fight for the spreadsheet crown has shifted to the marketing front, with Informix selling Wing to Excel owners for $99 and Microsoft bundling Excel 2.2 with Word 4.0, PowerPoint 2.01, and Mail 1.37 for $849 into The Microsoft Office, a sort of "buy two, get two free" promotion (a limited-lime offer through December 31, 1989). But no matter what the outcome of the marketing strategies. Excel — with its huge installed base — is still the king, and version 2.2 goes a long way toward keeping it on the throne.

Wiggins, Robert R. (September 1989). Excel 2.2. MacUser. (pgs. 60-61).


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Architecture


Motorola 68K



System Requirements

From Mac OS 2.0 up to Mac OS 7.6





Compatibility notes

Architecture: 68K

System 6.x - Mac OS 9.2.2


Version 2.2 Requirements

  • Macintosh Plus
  • Two 800K floppy drives
  • System 6.0.2


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