Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Important features in Microsoft Excel 2010

In my last blog on Basics of Excel, I explained the concepts of Excel file, worksheet and cell. While reading the blog, you might have been wondering the extent of cells or worksheets you could use for a certain file. This blog will discuss some important features in Microsoft Excel 2010
  • A worksheet can have maximum 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns, which means more than 17 billion or 1700 crores of cells in one sheet – just imagine!!!!
  • Maximum column width is of 255 characters and row height is of 409 points
  • A cell can contain maximum 32,767 characters
  • Number of sheets in a file (also called workbook) is limited by available memory; default is 3 sheets
  • You can create 16 million colors in a workbook (32 bit with full access to 24 bit color spectrum)
  • There are 64,000 unique cell formats or styles, 256 fill styles and 256 line weight and styles available
  • Maximum 66,530 hyperlinks could be created in a worksheet
  • Maximum 2,147,483,648 non-contiguous cells that can be selected
  • 256 users can open and share a shared workbook at the same time
  • 32,767 cells can be highlighted in a shared workbook        
  • Excel can handle some humongous numbers
               Smallest allowed number: 2.2251 X 10-308
               Largest allowed number: 9.99999999999999 X 10307
               Largest allowed number via formula: 1.7976931348623158 X 10308
  • Excel is also very powerful in handling formulas
               Highest possible length of formula contents: 8,192 characters
               Maximum internal length of formula: 16,384 bytes
               Maximum permissible iterations: 32,767
               Highest number of arguments in a function: 255
               Maximum nested levels of functions: 64
               Maximum user defined function categories: 255
               Maximum number of available worksheet functions: 341
               Cross-worksheet dependency: up to 64,000 worksheets could be referred to other sheets
               Dependency on a single cell: up to 4 billion formulas could depend on a single cell
               Linked cell content length from closed workbooks: 32,767
  • Excel is quite flexible in accepting extreme value of time and date
               Earliest date allowed for calculation: January 1, 1900
               Latest date allowed for calculation:   December 31, 9999
               Largest amount of time that can be entered:  9999:59:59



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