Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, OLE data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Initially a marketing term for an office suite (bundled set of productivity applications), the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. Proprietary commercial software ( retail, volume licensing, SaaS) Proofing only (11): Hausa, Igbo, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Kinyarwanda, Pashto, Romansh, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, Wolof, YorubaĮnglish, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish.Partial (48): Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani (Latin), Bangla (Bangladesh), Bangla (Bengali India), Belarusian, Bosnian (Latin), Dari, Filipino, Georgian, Gujarati, Icelandic, Irish, Kannada, Khmer, Kiswahili, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nepali, Norwegian Nynorsk, Odia, Persian (Farsi), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Quechua, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia & Herzegovina), Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia), Sindhi (Arabic), Sinhala, Tamil, Tatar (Cyrillic), Telugu, Turkmen (Latin), Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek (Latin), Valencian, Welsh,.
Next, click on the “Customise Ribbon” tab on the left to see the detailed options for modifying what appears on the ribbon: If you want easy access to these advanced features, simply follow these steps:įirst, open the Excel Options dialog box by clicking on File, then Options in the Excel ribbon: Form controlsįorm controls in Excel include interactive objects such as checkboxes, option buttons and list boxes.Ĭheckboxes in particular are popular if you’re using Excel to create a simple checklist for your colleagues to complete. When you click the same button again, it will stop recording and save the macro so you can use it later. Macros are a set of instructions that you perform in Excel that you can save and have repeated for you automatically.Ĭlicking on the “Record Macro” button tells Microsoft Excel to keep an eye on the actions you make in the program. The most popular use of the Developer tab in Excel is for recording/managing macros and for writing Visual Basic (VBA) code.
Let’s have a look at the most popular ones: Macros and VBA code There are a few reasons why you might want to have easy access to the Developer tab in Excel.