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IBM Lotus Symphony – freeware for MS Windows, Apple Mac OS X and Linux. Kingsoft Office Spreadsheets 2012 – For MS Windows. Both free and paid versions are available. It can handle Microsoft Excel .xls and .xlsx files, and also produce other file formats such as .et, .txt, .csv, .pdf, and .dbf. It supports multiple tabs, VBA macro and PDF ...
Microsoft Excel uses dedicated file formats that are not part of OOXML, and use the following extensions:.xlsb – Excel binary worksheet (BIFF12).xla – Excel add-in that can contain macros.xlam – Excel macro-enabled add-in.xll – Excel XLL add-in; a form of DLL-based add-in [1].xlw – Excel work space; previously known as "workbook"
Excel 2.0 for Windows, which was modeled after its Mac GUI-based counterpart, indirectly expanded the installed base of the then-nascent Windows environment. Excel 2.0 was released a month before Windows 2.0, and the installed base of Windows was so low at that point in 1987 that Microsoft had to bundle a runtime version of Windows 1.0 with ...
During the early 1990s, Windows grew in popularity, and along with it, Excel, which gradually displaced Lotus from its leading position. A planned total revamp of 1-2-3 for Windows fell apart, and all that the company could manage was a Windows adaptation of their existing spreadsheet with no changes except using a graphical interface.
Excel 4.0 was the first application to support new AppleScript. [175] Microsoft Office 4.2 for Mac was released in 1994. (Version 4.0 was skipped to synchronize version numbers with Office for Windows) Version 4.2 included Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0 and Mail 3.2. [183] It was the first Office suite for Power Macintosh. [175]
Apache OpenOffice from version 3.0 can import Office Open XML files but not save them. [46] Version 3.2 improved this feature with read support even for password-protected Office Open XML files. [47] [48] [49] The Go-oo fork of OpenOffice could also write OOXML files. KOffice from version 2.2 and later was able to import OOXML files.
Yes by file Yes No No Yes Yes Extension No No ECOFF: Ultrix, Tru64 UNIX, IRIX: none Yes by file Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No XCOFF: IBM AIX, BeOS, "classic" Mac OS: none Yes by file Yes No No Yes Yes [9] Yes No No SOM: HP-UX, MPE/ix? Unknown Unknown No No Unknown Yes No Unknown No Amiga Hunk: AmigaOS: none No Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes No ...
The new XML-based document file format in Microsoft Office 2007 is incompatible with previous versions of Microsoft Office unless an add-on is installed for the older version. [111] PC World has stated that upgrading to Office 2007 presents dangers to certain data, such as templates, macros, and mail messages. [112]