CPSC 547 - A Review of Spreadsheets

Microsoft Excel - Version 5.0

Microsoft Excel 5.0 is an extremely powerful spreadsheet. Microsoft has tried to incorporate the best ideas from all the other main spreadsheets, while adding their own features to make their product an extremely easy product to use and powerful enough to attract the heaviest users. One of the most inciting features is the new "macro" language included in the entire suite of Microsoft products, and this will be discussed fully after the basic features are introduced.

Excel's Features

  1. Basic Features
  2. OLE 2.0
  3. Import Features
  4. Pivot Tables
  5. Pseudo-Database
  6. Graphing
  7. Macros/Visual Basis

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Belinda Fong
Christopher Sakamoto

February 21, 1996