Talk:Microsoft Excel#Excel Quirks

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Change info box from "2103 (16.0.13901.20400) / April 13, 2021; 2 years ago{{cite web|website=Microsoft Docs|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-history-office-2019|title=Update history for Microsoft Office 2019|access-date=2021-04-13|archive-date=April 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414161816/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-history-office-2019|url-status=live}}" to "2309 (16827.20130) / September 28, 2023{{cite web|website=Microsoft Docs|url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/current-channel|title=Release notes for Current Channel |access-date=2021-04-13|date=September 29, 2023|url-status=live}}". The Release for Microsoft Windows in Microsoft 365 App. 47.234.198.142 (talk) 04:03, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

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:{{done}} — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 16:50, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

The history section is extremely weak and limited. Compare, for example, the history of MS-Word (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word). I don't know enough to create that, but could some who does please do it? Kmasters0 (talk) 05:59, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

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I want permission to editing and adding new or original content . kindly grant me permission for adding and editing new content. Onlinecomputerstudy7 (talk) 04:36, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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The arcticle for Microsoft Office 2019 says "Office 2019 retains the same major version number of 16, making it the second perpetual release of Office 16." I think that Excel 2019 is not Excel 17. So the table with the versions here is maybe not right. 2A00:6020:4903:3100:286C:4264:8BEF:867E (talk) 21:32, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

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)

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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:

{{textdiff|In October 2023, Microsoft fixed the long-standing issue.|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)