Talk:Microsoft Excel
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End of Maintaining of Excel 2016 and 2019
Excel 2016 and 2019 for Windows are still in Extendend Support until Oct 14, 2025. The table in the summary section in the article is not right: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/excel-2016 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/excel-2019 It is right, that the support for Excel for Mac (2016 and 2019) has ended: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/excel-2016-for-mac https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/excel-2019-for-mac 2A00:6020:4903:3100:525:93B8:D7A7:99BA (talk) 16:39, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-Protected edit request on 16 March 2025 about Conversion Problems
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The last sentence of the paragraph "Conversion Problems" currently reads as follows, and I want to propose following modification to it:
| − | In October 2023, Microsoft | + | In October 2023, Microsoft introduced new settings to Excel, making it easier to avoid this issue. Users can now configure which automatic data conversions should be applied. |
Reasoning is:
1. IMO there was no issue to fix, at least in the classical sense. Microsoft most probably intended Excel to behave like that. In an article introducing the new settings, Microsoft did not acknowledge that they have fixed some issue, read https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/control-data-conversions-in-excel-for-windows-and-mac/4215336.
2. This "fix" is not applied automatically. Excel's default behavior still shows this "issue". Users have to configure their instance of Excel to behave as they prefer. Users who just read that this short sentence might leave Wikipedia thinking that this unintended automatic conversion of inserted data is not worth to be aware of. BananaNetwork (talk) 20:45, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
Done I trimmed your suggested wording but hopefully kept the spirit. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 20:44, 17 March 2025 (UTC)
Why does Excel lack a "History" section?
Pages about other software in Microsoft's Office Suite, like PowerPoint include extensive information about development history. 58.188.187.251 (talk) 12:02, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
Semi-Protected edit request on 19 January 2026 requesting removal of malware link
Citation 139 now points to a malware domain at https://earnandexcel.com/blog/excel-games/. Corpusmorpus (talk) 00:06, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
extend Conversion Problems
In December 2021, Empirasign published research demonstrating there are a large number CUSIPs (alphanumeric strings) that Excel will convert to an integer or a float (scientific notation). As of February 2026, at least 3,000 of these ambiguous CUSIPs have been discovered by Empirasign.[1] Red73 (talk) 16:48, 24 February 2026 (UTC)