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Small databases of a few rows, to a few thousand rows, can often be created more quickly and easily in Microsoft Excel, than by using a dedicated database system. Excel is available as a stand-alone ...

As we mentioned last month, Microsoft Excel 2007 was plagued by a fairly serious math flaw that could affect spreadsheet data. Today, the Excel team at Microsoft has released a patch which addresses ...

When Microsoft rolled out Office 2007, the company made some fundamental changes to its file formats, updating them from binary files to XML-based packages. The default format for Excel 2007 followed ...

Microsoft has issued a fix for the calculation bug that was discovered in Excel 2007: Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today ...