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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

Whoever invented the excel is a genius

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

guy: copy pastes other guys: WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT

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]

loved those old boxes, you felt you had something.

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

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. 🙂

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

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

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

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.

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.

Thanks for the 33 years old tutorial it worked.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

This classic Microsoft Excel ad deserves to be digitalized.

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

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

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!

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

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.

27 years later we are still using it daily

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

Thanks Microsoft you changed my life forever

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.

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

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

This is the most inspiring content on all of UKposts.

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.

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

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.

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"

I like how they produced basically 1/4 of a Seinfeld episode for this ad. And it’s actually pulls you in like a real show. Love the 90s

"Success is excellence that excels"

This is beyond impressive.

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.

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."

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

30 years later and the essence is the same. I would love to watch an ad with vlookup.

It’s kinda odd to think that a piece of software that has become completely common place on most computers and is taken for granted by nearly everyone was such a game changing and revolutionary program back when it was released

30 years ago... I worked with a chemistry scientist that told me "Excel does and will do, more than any of us will ever be able to use it for!" Smart man..

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

Longest elevator ride in history. He forgot to wait for all the windows, updates and patches.

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.

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

The fun part is "my spreadsheet doesn't do that" is my reaction as well in 2023

Whoa memory unlocked

Now it's hard to imagine a world without Excel, Word, Outlook, etc. Microsoft has absolutely owned the world's business sector for decades.

The trackball module on the laptop completes this whole scene of nostalgia so well

Microsoft Excel is a kind of miracle.

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

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.

This ad does not have any digital super stylish transitions but it can convey the purpose far better than the current generation of advertisements.

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

Good to know that I still use the same functions they worked out 30 years ago.