30 years later, and nothing has changed: The world still uses excel; There is still one guy doing the work; There are still three guys being clueless; There is still one guy pushing to go faster, thinking the project is doomed… and taking the credit when everything works out.

Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's spreadsheet.

All of the comments are so focused on how revolutionary Excel was that everyone seems to have overlooked the fact that the woman in the ad is Jan Brehm, the actress to whom this channel belongs. After visiting your website, congratulations are in order for a very successful career. What's more, 30 years later, you still look as lovely as you did in that Excel commercial. Thanks for posting the commercial. It's fun to watch all these years later.

30 years later, the biggest limitations of the MS Office suites are the actual end users who never go beyond the most basic features.

Microsoft had to target the most creative, intelligent and innovative people in the market: those of us who wait till the very last moment to finish the job.

30 years and there is always that guy with a slingbag and bicycle helmet. Those guys never die.

I remember first time learning Excel in my computer class back in 2003/2004. Twenty years later, I'm still using it everyday in my personal and professional life. Thank you Excel. 09/27/2023

This is how the ads should be. No fancy music,no fast video jumps. Only real content😊

All things considered, design decisions on that format cell dialogue box , autosum, and autofill have remained unchanged in 30years. Hats off to the original team that brought this to market

It's really, really hard to exactly describe how ridiculously revolutionary this was when it came out.

I remember when I started teaching Excel at an adult school in California. I had several students who were stuck on Lotus 1-2-3 and didn't want to change. They thought Lotus for DOS was the best and didn't want to change until I gave them an overhead projector lesson with Excel. My presentation took about 10 minutes and they were hooked! They said what the other two guys said. Lotus doesn't do that! LOL! ALL of my students went to the office and switched to Excel and were so excited on how fast and easy it was. I still teach Microsoft Excel online now and the university where I now teach is upgrading to the 2021 version. It's great for me to get to learn new things with Excel too, as it upgrades and changes! I actually post this video in my announcements every new semester for my students to view now so that they can see how great Excel is.

Whoever invented the excel is a genius

Props to Microsoft Excel for single-handedly carrying the whole Microsoft Office suite.

It’s kinda wild that, 30 years later, those features work pretty much exactly the same in modern Excel. They nailed it from day one.

I didn’t know you could move a chart by highlighting and dragging it. Thanks for this mini Excel lesson! 😄

30 years from now, someone will do a reel on how fascinated we were when ChatGPT came out. 5th graders will just shake their heads and chuckle on their Mars colony.

This ad really makes me want to make a complex spreadsheet that has millions of rows and tables and is actually a relational database which is gonna haunt the company's backend devs for many years to come.

They actually did a great job showing the main features that people want from a product like that. It was pretty much the whole workflow for 99% of people who use it.

loved those old boxes, you felt you had something.

The actress Jan Brehm is looking gorgeous ❤ just like Excel's spreadsheets used to look when they first came out in the late 90's and still are.

guy: copy pastes other guys: WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT

I like how the old commercials were more complete than todays tutorials lol 😆

In India, we learnt how to align TV antennas to catch Doodrdarshan properly and that was the smartest thing on can do in a society in 1990s

The *colour laptop* may have cost about £4,000 in 1990 and was cutting edge. [citation needed] I was studying computing in college. We had new Apple Mac's and 80286 PCs with monochrome CRT screens. My first spreadsheet was Lotus 1-2-3 or SuperCalc and ran on DOS using bendy 5.25" floppy disks [about 1.2 MB]

Bateman would like this. The whole thing has a clear, crisp look, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the figures a big boost.

Even in 2022, autofill is still fun and fantastic to use, just so satisfying to drag and see all the numbers appear.

The good old days of arriving late and doing a last minute four row spreadsheet presentation that landed you business deals. Imagine how far they would have gotten if they showed her pivot tables?

this video suddenly appear to my recommended videos, I think this is a sign to start learn Microsoft Excel

1992: If you can do a simple spreadsheet, you get a 6-figure job. 2022: You need to be proficient in python, javascript, R, c++, CSS, frontend, backend, data architecture, machine learning to be considered for this unpaid intern position

30 years later... Excel is still the main player for companies. Thoroughly enjoyed this video.

How do I know Excel was brought to us by a time traveler? 30 years later... It's still the best pound for pound all-around data tool. Will hold that title for years to come.

Thank you for showing me features I didn't even know existed. Excel is still the graveyard of intuitive design.

Ad actually explains the product while managing to stay humorous, hard to do with software. Nice job 👍🏽

""She wants a ten percent increase, so let's give her that." Some things never change when it comes to spreadsheets and presentations.

Thanks for the 33 years old tutorial it worked.

I love Excel. Over 20 yrs ago I once created a payroll accounting on Excel for close to 50 employees, pivot table, consolidated sheet, controlling...you name it. The company I created it for had a nutty payroll system with tons of benefit and deduction positions so that a top professional accounting software had trouble to include them as I found out when I inquired with a software firm so this ev. gave me the idea to try to create a system in Excel in the first place. All pay slips came from Excel, social security statements at the end of year plus I could export data to fill out withholding tax forms. I still had to book the consolidated numbers manually in a dirt cheap very flexible accounting software but that was not much of work. I later gave it to 2 smaller company founders who had planed to buy some standard payroll accounting software for 3-4k (plus they yearly contract fees for upgrades, support & other nonsense they sell you) and they were enthusiastic after using it a few months. You can do so much complex stuff with Excel, it never ceased to amaze me!

This...this was the decade for me. I was a hard-core Lotus 123 fan and built spreadsheets for my company, but when Excel hit the scene and I begrudgingly made the change, it opened a whole new world. I've been involved with the reporting, programming and database world since the 80s, but the decade of the 90s was the most enjoyable as far as my career. I was getting better by leaps and bounds with Excel, building simple databases, digging under the hood of our company's midrange computer, and just having a hell of a good time overall. It was an exciting time of discovery when the industry was still relatively new and possibilities seemed endless. Then I got moved into system support and it all went to hell. 🙂

I was working for Microsoft in the UK between 1983 and 1989. During that time I was working with the early alpha and beta copies of Excel and Word on the Apple Mac and was the main demonstrator both behind closed doors and in public when released. These were great times because nobody had better products.

I can't tell you how many times I have found myself in this exact situation. Microsoft Excel is a lifesaver!

This classic Microsoft Excel ad deserves to be digitalized.

I don’t think people realize how much the entire global financial system is built upon the back of Excel.

Imagine living in a world where this is considered impressive... How did people even do things before Excel?!

It’s amazing how advanced this was. I only started using excel for work in 2020 and it blew my mind.

Worlds slowest elevator

I do 10 year financial projections within an hour and I’m still unemployed. This dude is something else

I‘m wondering, if laptop batteries could last that long in 1992.

Love the cut to the bike messenger's face when he hears "you're lucky to be alive". Nice touch.

Working for a small business, I don’t know how we would get by without Excel. It is just so versatile and fills the gaps our off the shelf ERP systems can’t help us with unless we want to pay crazy amounts of customisation. Thank god for power query!

So many people take Microsoft Excel for granted. The people who first developed the software are geniuses🙏🏻

1:07 he sounds like Patrick Bateman I can just imagine him saying: "I think with the Office Suite, Microsoft really came into their own, commercially and artistically. the whole suite has a clear crisp design and a new sheen of consumate professionalism that really gives the final product a big boost."

Microsoft Excel was a trend setter, it was way ahead of it's time. Still in 2023 it's a great great tool.

How I remember computers from the 90s is that it took forever to boot up and another forever to do simple tasks. And pray to god when you press that save button that it doesn't hang.

27 years later we are still using it daily

Props to the person that shot, edited and formatted this promotional film in the elevator on their way up to the 9.00am 'How to market Microsoft Excel' meeting.

This is actually extremely well done

Back in the day we had computer class in junior high. After few years in vocational school i got my first job in live audio company, when i presented them just this kind of spreadsheet of custom made case dimensions. I am actually proud of myself since i immediately noticed that exel can calculate needed dimensions of material automatically after it knew what size of equipment the case needs to fit.

Honestly, I didn't even KNOW AutoFill was a thing since the beginning of Excel, I always thought it was a recent feature, to have that from the beginning is freaking smart, good work Microsoft!

It seems ridiculous from the ad, but honestly Excel remains one of the most versatile tools I've used in my ~6 years of work experience so far. It can do enough

Microsoft Excel - One of the best invention in the Tech world🔥.

Wow. This is great! They did a fantastic job here.

Had a friend in physics class who asked me come with a calculator to help him calculate all the lab data he had for a class he had in an hour. That's when I showed him the magic of excel. His reaction from doubtful worry to amazement was priceless.

This video shows a number of things that we take for granted. Hats off to the MS Excel Developers 🎉

I've been working in it for a day now, I'm very happy, thank you bro !!!

Most amazing and mesmerizing tool of the history....

A tale of determination in spite of all the odds. Truly a hero’s journey.

Jump to 2022 when your Spreadsheet is 18 tabs, auto filling from different parts on the network, and loaded with integrated VB script. When I started my current job I knew about as much as this guy in the video. Then I realized business is still running on this stuff. It's amazing that this is still powering business.

I can't believe we still use this program today. Absolutely amazing

just reminded me of an incredible journey of exploring computers and software back in 2000s. very much same interface.

Can't believe Excel hasn't changed much but the design in 30 years. It's still ahead of its time. You can always learn something new everytime you use it. It's genius...

He opens his laptop to show the boss the spreadsheet. She looks mystified. He realizes his battery died and his spreadsheet is gone forever. Only then does he realize he forgot to "Save."

They give a real and full tutorial inside the ad ! Genius

They can make us watch 4 min commercial back then, now if you can't get their attention under 30 second they will immediately swap the video

COURSERA brought me here too! Also the free time I got due to the COVID 19 pandemic right now. :(

Arguably the single most important and influential software application ever developed.

This is the most inspiring content on all of UKposts.

1990: "Hey Bob, check out this currency format..." 2024: "Yo Landon, check out this commercial from 1990!"

The last shot of those boxes got me all nostalgic for the excitement of PC software back in the day. Opening those big boxes with diskettes, then eventually CDs, with all the manuals and inserts inside was like opening a present

that was the longest elevator ride ever😂😂

I intern at a not-for-profit organization (in India). I teach basics of computers, internet and a few commonly used application software to under-privileged students. Today I started with Microsoft Excel 365 version. I had created a simple project of students marksheets and grades. Trust me, the students were utterly left speechless, their jaws dropping in amazement.

My gosh! The acting in this infomercial is incredible!!!

In case anyone is wondering, this is an ad for Excel 4.0. The first version was released for Mac in 1985, which came after a spreadsheet program called Multiplan that Microsoft released in 1982.

I just finished giving a community college class on Excel as part of a continuing ed management program. I spent 30 minutes teaching a 55 year old man how to build a table like the one in this ad and I could see his eyes light up and also a sense of loss because of the years spent without these skills. I'm a trained engineer and teach courses as a side gig. Excel has been my go-to tool through engineering school, through my masters... through all my jobs. It's helped me plan family finances, run a business. It's had as profound an impact on my life as the automobile, internet and the smart phone yet Excel is not nearly as heralded. I feel the programmers that put this wonder together deserve a place in our collective hearts right next to Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Sergei Brin.

YOU ARE A LEGEND FOR POSTING THIS

It still blows my mind that people used to cut paper with scissors and paste text together to edit, I knew it in theory but I saw it on tv, possibly Trumbo, and it really hit home how cool this feature was even before computers.

I can’t wait until this gets released, looks promising!

I like how they used the most simple spreadsheet ever "So as you can see, Tennis is 1000. BUT, in Q2, Tennis will be 1100. At the same time, Golf will be 2200 and Safari will be 3300"

Today, 2023 - June / Japan. I've been using MICROSOFT EXCEL since 1992, I love this program so much, in fact I love all the programs in the WORD package .... Tanks MICROSOFT, you guys are the bestl.

When I work with today's MS Office Excel 365, I miss the old times.

That's some hard 90s right there.

I'm impressed with that 90s laptop being able to click and drag those lines without causing a BSOD or overheat

"Success is excellence that excels"

This video really helped me. Thank you very much!

What propelled Apple stock was the spreadsheet app VisiCalc which came out in 1979. I remember seeing a black/white picture of a building with 4 floors. This was in 1966. Ford Motor Company rented that building for their budgeting process. All the room contained blackboards. Each board represented a sheet with numbers. If a number changed, accountants would go from board to board, room to room, floor to floor to reflect the respective changes. The building was a spreadsheet! We have come a long way indeed.

30 years later, it is the global standard software for businesses and accounting, and pretty much anybody can use it. I use Excel all the time for so many things other than accounting.

I’m from the third world , I loved the bad suits, terrible haircuts from that era …I loved this ad , brought back filthy memories

I get some serious Twin Peaks vibes from that. Especially with that music playing at the end.

Excel is great for text messaging too

Good stuff! I remember shooting that in downtown Seattle.

This is beyond impressive.

Thanks Microsoft you changed my life forever