Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel Viewer OpenOffice Most versions of Microsoft Excel can read CSV, DBF, SYLK, DIF, and other legacy formats. Used as the basis for XLS files it is a persistence format that supports authoring and manipulating content in workbooks and workbook templates. Microsoft Excel up until 2007 version used a proprietary binary file format called Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF) as its primary format. XLS to CSV - Convert file now View other document file formats The current versions are 2010 for Microsoft Windows and 2011 for Mac OS X.
It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms, especially since version 5 in 1993, and it has almost completely replaced Lotus 1-2-3 as the industry standard for spreadsheets.
It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
Pre-2007 versions of Excel use XLS as the primary format for saving files. Microsoft Excel is a commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
