History and Trivia

Excel Specifications and Limitations
Excel XP is limited to 65,536 rows and 256 columns.
A cell formula is limited to 1024 characters.
A cell can contain 32,767 characters, of which only 1,024 display in the cell, the rest are displayed in the formula bar.

To find out more, open Excel Help by pressing F1. Search on "Specifications and Limits".

Spreadsheet history
Excel Easter Eggs
Excel versions

Web Pages with Useful Links

·          Excel Links from add-ins.com

·          INFORMS Education Forum (INFORM-ED)
Your Education Resource. Everything and anything to do with teaching management science, including non-spreadsheet materials.

·          NumaWeb  The Web site for Numa Financial Systems, is a comprehensive online source for articles, references, guides, articles, and general materials on financial derivatives.

·          Ozgrid.com  
Excel Training, Add-ins and Templates: this is a very large site housing countless amounts of free content for Microsoft Excel and business related software. They sell all products related to Microsoft Excel and have a free 24/7 support forum for all Microsoft Office applications. If it's Excel, it's OzGrid.com

·          Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE)
An electronic journal devoted to the publication of quality refereed articles concerned with studies of the role that spreadsheets can play in education.

·          The Spreadsheet Page

·          Sysmod.com  Provides extensive links to resources on spreadsheets generally, their quality, and application to financial and other modeling.

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