Excel has now become the industry standard for spreadsheets all around the world.Įxcel processes raw data and stores it in a systematic, and organized manner.

It also offers a limited animated graphics display. Data is displayed in the form of lists, graphs, and charts. Excel offers a network of cells arranged in letter-named columns and numbered rows to organize data operations like formula based calculations and data entry. It was released in 1987 for Microsoft Windows, before that its version 1.0 was only limited to Macintosh computers. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft.