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.

@miguellagrimas466

Жыл бұрын

I might be that last guy🤣

@arnaboceanatyahoo

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@ugh.idontwanna

Жыл бұрын

... And the work in question could easily be automated.

@bkboy2384

Жыл бұрын

Sad

@mareksicinski3726

Жыл бұрын

well not sure if he took credit

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.

@mpup54

Жыл бұрын

they also had to kill Quattro Pro in the process 😞

@francoisbyvoet

Жыл бұрын

@@mpup54 I remembre that there was lot of nice extra feture in Quattro Pro. My Father did even insisted that it was THE spreadsheet we needed for our small familly business ... But we now the rest of the storry : more and more integration with other Office tools and move to 365 did kill all competitors except Google Sheet

@george60m38

Жыл бұрын

i currently have 2 exams tomorrow and plan to spend the rest of my free time tonight studying. its also 7pm

@JQuickDraw

Жыл бұрын

As f**ked up as it may seem to those who aren't built that way, some people just perform better under pressure.

@NishitDave

Жыл бұрын

Our creative juices only flow when we can actually taste the deadline.

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.

@janinewacker123

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind comment. Much appreciated!

@vintagebroadcastingsystem8028

Жыл бұрын

@@janinewacker123 It's my pleasure Jan:)

@lonccoccala6861

11 ай бұрын

I was about to ask whos this woman...and you did it..

@deusmuerte6832

11 ай бұрын

She doesn't look that good to notice her. Especially if you compare her with models of 80's and 90's.

@NazriB

11 ай бұрын

Lies again? Burger King FNB Money

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

@eduardoa3165

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 as a helpdesk tech i approve this message

@waschosen-

5 ай бұрын

These days, people tend to use Excel for taking notes or simple as a makeshift phone book.

@srgk26

Ай бұрын

@@waschosen-Yep, anything more complex than simple record taking, we should be using databases and/or python/R or similar.

@Gabytron

Ай бұрын

Literally having to show people these functions in 2024

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

@stevensutton4677

Жыл бұрын

Look at the subtle drag and drop function. The tasteful table red-blue colour scheme. Oh my god it even has currency formatting.

@kirawr8064

Жыл бұрын

@@stevensutton4677 underrated af

@extraglutenplz3758

Жыл бұрын

jesus that was slick

@feelincrispy7053

Жыл бұрын

@@stevensutton4677 not bad, not bad at all

@toybugcarl

Жыл бұрын

This whole thread FTW! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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

@krishnasanyal7

Жыл бұрын

Yup this was genius in itself

@Senor_Gago

Жыл бұрын

a lot of other features are even older, coming from visicalc in 1978

@lucky-belindaniko9732

Жыл бұрын

Right?! I am SHOOKETH at how it still looks the same!

@Gurmudgin

Жыл бұрын

It never had to change because it did exactly what it needed to from the start. A beautiful bit of software.

@patrickvalentino600

Жыл бұрын

The other characters complaining "my spreadsheet doesn't do that"....then what exactly did it do, and how was it different than pencil and paper? This was basic excel functionality even in the 80's

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

@dralger

5 ай бұрын

Did you never try another spreadsheet? I don't like Excel. I use spreadsheets since 30 years.

@Paras-ot2qo

2 ай бұрын

@@dralger just get good

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

@voiceofreason2674

Жыл бұрын

facts every other program from Microsoft is dookie cakes

@MrTiktok4

Жыл бұрын

@@voiceofreason2674 Office? powerpoint? Yall tripping MS office still the king

@voiceofreason2674

Жыл бұрын

@@MrTiktok4 Google slides is way better

@Perjorativeterm

Жыл бұрын

@@voiceofreason2674 slides is trash let's be real.

@SanNico

Жыл бұрын

I've made architectural designs on powerpoint.

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

@HouseOfFunQM

Жыл бұрын

Think like “iPhone 4 launch”, but for overpriced business software

@ccandsea

Жыл бұрын

Was it? I remember making graphs and tables with Cricket Graph on a Mac in 1990 (2 years before Excel). But I don't remember much about how easy or difficult it was to use. I do know that when I did start using Excel (probably around 1995), it was similar enough to pick up quickly.

@Trevor_Austin

Жыл бұрын

@@HouseOfFunQM Not even in the slightest. Spreadsheeting is was a way of recording values. Lotus 123 was the final iteration of text based spreadsheets. The future was to use a GUI to make the process easier and pack more functionality in without making it harder to drive. At the same time every other app would would the same way. Lotus Developments Corp. did not think this was the way to go and thus failed miserably to predict the future. They had personal briefings and very private briefings from both Apple and Microsoft. They purchased many SDK’s to develop GUI products and could have been a competitor. But as I said earlier, they didn’t think Windows or Apple had a future.

@Adroyo

Жыл бұрын

It wasn’t.

@costiqueR

Жыл бұрын

Most people do not understand that man can do almost anything related to engineering with it...

Whoever invented the excel is a genius

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.

@user-uo9ld1oy2w

14 күн бұрын

What would you recommend to a first time user?

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.

@beetdiggingcougar

Жыл бұрын

Most of my co-workers still can't do this.

@surquhart64

Жыл бұрын

"If it ain't broke, no need to fix it".....quite a few things in life could learn from this formula 😁

@zabaleta66

Жыл бұрын

Everyday mathematics is still the same.

@xiaoka

Жыл бұрын

Visicalc and Lotus 1-2-3 were like 10+ years old by the time this came out.

@joshgribbon8510

Жыл бұрын

Part of me agrees because there's a lot of similar stories in computing, Excel is basically a relational database which is another idea that stuck around for a really long time. Part of me also thinks we might just be locked into trying to be backwards compatible with the tech and with what people expect. I think of all the cool user interface designs from the 90s and how standardized everything is now - I'm not sure if we're really approaching an overall peak as much as some local maximum

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.

@augustday9483

Жыл бұрын

😆

@billwatcheshere

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@BoilersRock

Жыл бұрын

you bastard! Sincerely A Backend Dev

@cjohnson9211

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean relational database? Please explain...

@augustday9483

Жыл бұрын

@@cjohnson9211 Relational databases are a common type of database system where records are tracked in a table which contains specific columns, with each record comprising a row of data. Ideally you'd use actual database software for doing this, such as SQL or its derivatives. However it is an all-too-common occurrence for companies to simply use a giant Excel doc as if it were a database. For various reasons, using Excel like this is terrible and it makes backend developers cry.

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

@riggs20

5 ай бұрын

@@TheViSi-vc6je Better late than never! 😂

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.

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.

@gordon1545

Жыл бұрын

One thing that ad could have shown to complete it would have been making a chart.

@SalmonBucket

Жыл бұрын

What happen to those 1%

@Chraan

Жыл бұрын

@@gordon1545 Charts in the early 90s version of Excel, what?

@theIdlecrane

Жыл бұрын

Wow, no wonder people who work in offices have depression 😩

@Sam-tx4jz

Жыл бұрын

Yeah fr

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

@BigMTBrain

Жыл бұрын

Surely, this was one of those extended Super Bowl-type commercials, not a regular one. Even then, running a long-form commercial at any frequency greater than rarely was cost-prohibitive, even for the likes of a Microsoft. I'm sure they created and ran 15- and 30-second edits of this regularly, with the rare sprinkling of the long-form version.

@adammccabe640

Жыл бұрын

There is no today, there wasn't yesterday

@Lizard1582

Жыл бұрын

@@adammccabe640 shutup stoner

@alo2838

Жыл бұрын

@@BigMTBrain o

@bpisbp2

Жыл бұрын

they couldn't flip channels then

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]

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

@Fuzzfooger

5 ай бұрын

I'm still trying to get my head round how easy this guy's job is even if he didn't have excel to help

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

@TheKaMeLRo

Жыл бұрын

Is it not the same when we still see people still wear suit? lol

@jansteinerbach

Жыл бұрын

Until they actually DO, crushed by an SUV.

@DennyBuoy

Жыл бұрын

Yup!

@colinpierre3441

Жыл бұрын

The real question is why was he heading to the 60th floor of a business place??

@VeknesWaran

Жыл бұрын

@@colinpierre3441 I have no idea my dude. Probably he owns the place.

guy: copy pastes other guys: WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT

@charliedays

2 жыл бұрын

LOL! It was such a new invention back then.😂 And it hasn't been long, honestly. I believe half a century ago or less is still very recent.🙂

@altcodex5625

Жыл бұрын

Some things are taken for granted with time when it's becomes so easy it's almost like an instinct 🤣.

@cheesebusiness

Жыл бұрын

It was 1992, you weren’t even born

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?

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.

@jimbaker5110

11 ай бұрын

This is accurate

@Danny-bd1ch

11 ай бұрын

No one will be living on Mars in 30 years.

@gt8200-0

11 ай бұрын

Reels will definitely be gone by then (Thank god)

@ralphtaylor7448

10 ай бұрын

30 year from now we will see all the video on how people got scammed with crypto, monkeys jpegs, and elon clown musk

@_________________404

9 ай бұрын

AI winter is a thing.

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.

@thereasonofall

Жыл бұрын

that's very cool Bateman, but that's nothing

@justincase49

Жыл бұрын

It’s called Bone.

@justincase49

Жыл бұрын

@Olivier Verdys some men just want to watch the world burn

@NterpriseCEO

Жыл бұрын

The font's Sicilian Braille

@riflesightsonme2120

Жыл бұрын

I actually got American Psycho vibes from this commercial.

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

@jbosco3970

Жыл бұрын

actually if can master excel you still have a job at 100K - of course there is a lot more to master but don't under estimate how valuable knowing excel is. if you had to learn just one tool master excel.

@gmshadowtraders

Жыл бұрын

How's it hangin today? 🤣

@OrinjFlames

Жыл бұрын

What you need to say you know to get a job, and what you actually do at the job are two very different things.

@justbored3.14

Жыл бұрын

if you can do a spread sheet without excell yeah. it's simple with good software.

@edwinfcapidos

Жыл бұрын

Haha. Currently doing an unpaid intern for flutter.

Thanks for the 33 years old tutorial it worked.

loved those old boxes, you felt you had something.

@demofresh103

Ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYuAr8SmcdmWpMo.htmlsi=nUdRCoa7I-ursZ9T

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

@McBobX

Жыл бұрын

In fact, that is the point of innovations :)

@truthbtold1392

Жыл бұрын

Im sure you did! There is no doubt in my mind that you THOROUGHLY enjoyed this video. Excel is the best!!!!!!!!

@judodono

Жыл бұрын

Im not old enough to know what a professional world without excel looked like

@achim8239

Жыл бұрын

The world's most important ERP software is not SAP, Oracle or similar stuff, but MS Excel.

@TickleMeElmo55

Жыл бұрын

@getting better lol no. Big Four accounting firms use Excel religiously.

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

@snaeshaads8203

Жыл бұрын

And many, many people still aren’t aware of the feature.

@angrydonut6998

Жыл бұрын

@@snaeshaads8203 Didnt knew until this vídeo lol

@iwatchwithnoads7480

Жыл бұрын

@@angrydonut6998 take a free course online on Excel. It will open doors for you. I still remember when my intern days I was excel noob and wasted like a hundred hours manually trying to find trends

@christopherbucher7017

Жыл бұрын

When it works ...

@joevining2603

Жыл бұрын

I never even knew about it and I've been using Excel since '95 lol. Gotta check it out.

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.

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.

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

@webfactorysolutions

Жыл бұрын

yeah, but it lasted over 4 minutes

@codinganarchy25

Жыл бұрын

@@webfactorysolutions most ads were about that length back in the 90s, today’s ads are barely 30 seconds due to people’s attention span not lasting long

@bigoled4929

Жыл бұрын

@@codinganarchy25 I think this is a bit glorified, majority of ads weren't that long back then, I'd rather define this as a crossover between an ad and an introductory vid. I however do agree that in tendency ads definately were longer, or let's say more slow-paced than it is generally the case nowadays.

@codinganarchy25

Жыл бұрын

@@bigoled4929 my apologies, you are definitely more correct! Slow paced is the right word here

@bigoled4929

Жыл бұрын

@@codinganarchy25 no apologies necessary mate! Wasn't meant as being arrogantly corrective^^ but thanks for tolerating that point!

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. 🙂

@Gositi

Жыл бұрын

Databases using excel?

@DarkGT

Жыл бұрын

@@Gositi If the scale of the data is small. SQL for larger volumes and better organization.

@Gositi

Жыл бұрын

@@DarkGT still tho: ew

@DarkGT

Жыл бұрын

@@Gositi Agree, asking for troubles if you use as database.

@mrjooxmanallah

Жыл бұрын

Lotus 1,2,3: all I remember were the weird looking boxes. I first used Excel in college in 1994. Got indoctrinated early.

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

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

@srigorakhnath1297

10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 true

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.

@TT-bm2kd

Жыл бұрын

So how do you like the evolution of excel so far?

@MrFaceeatingcancer

Жыл бұрын

You must be very proud of yourself it is quite an accomplishment👍

@metacube9913

Жыл бұрын

Literally no one makes Office products lol

@Barbie4U2

Жыл бұрын

That’s a pretty cool story

@gianluca.g

Жыл бұрын

You sir and Mr Bricklin basically allow the modern world to exist. Let it sink in for a moment.

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

@maxymum7

Жыл бұрын

Those who know, they do. That's all the cognizance required.

@jbosco3970

Жыл бұрын

not just finance - lots of Fortune 500 companies are.

@gmshadowtraders

Жыл бұрын

It still is bruh lol. Entire trading platforms and risk management software are built on the back of Excel VBA with C++.

@charless1403

Жыл бұрын

@@gmshadowtraders legacy ones for legacy banks

@cessposter

Жыл бұрын

@@charless1403 if you deal with money VBA and COBOL are still the best languages. It has support for floating point numbers, unlike Java or Python.

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!

@Scott-got-caught

5 ай бұрын

Too long. Nobody cares. I promise

@carlerikkopseng7172

5 ай бұрын

​@@Scott-got-caughtwrong. Some can read

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

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

@atypicalgeek88

Жыл бұрын

I was waiting for Wilson to say, "These numbers look too perfect" as she continued burning holes in their souls with that gaze...

@Eric-xh9ee

Жыл бұрын

@Issan Cali Reject that's what I was thinking. She always wants it bigger 😉

@animateddepression

Жыл бұрын

“That bitch wants to see simple math. Let’s show her that.”

@shawnmulberry774

Жыл бұрын

New title: "How to cook the books in minutes with Microsoft Excel"

@lynskyrd

Жыл бұрын

STILL, to this day... more fiction is written in Excel than Word.

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

@connor107

Жыл бұрын

Paper and adding machines, excel took over for a good reason haha

@1.N.Decent

Жыл бұрын

Lotus 1-2-3

@z140140

Жыл бұрын

Lotus 1-2-3 worked in text mode, so it probably doesn't have similar formatting facilities and you should use presentation graphics if you need nice presentation

@seion5497

Жыл бұрын

my father was an auditor i remember him using big sheets of paper to write and calculate financial stuff( sales,taxes,profits,...) some of them were as big as a table, and the worst part was when he made a small mistake. he had to write the whole thing from start because those spreadsheets were to be presented to investors and had to look pretty. he had this huge library of books published by government explaining how different things must be calculated (and got updated almost every year) AND LOTS of calculators he loved using calculators. around the time i went to school everything changed, the first versions of excel were being used, internet was there to help when needed, things got much easier

@M_McFly

Жыл бұрын

@@seion5497 VisiCalc was released in 1979 (when the Internet was mostly unknown.) I remember using it. Your father was just a bit slow on the uptake...

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

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

@user-kk4zw5jo4t

2 ай бұрын

Going up to 50th floor in a Manhattan highrise c. 1992? 🤔

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

@Mario_N64

2 жыл бұрын

They actually lasted a lot for the technology at the time, because graphics were simple and they had little power.

@ninestar968

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mario_N64 makes sense, didn‘t think about that.

@paulorufalco

Жыл бұрын

@@ninestar968 and about planned obsolescence?

@AndyK.1

Жыл бұрын

@@Mario_N64 No WiFi either.

@LeonisYT

Жыл бұрын

@@AndyK.1 also there's no way they aren't fitting a decent battery in that massive shell

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

@r.m10234

Жыл бұрын

Be a superman. Companies want a superman.

@Mark73

Жыл бұрын

The difference is that he's living in 1992 where this is black magic, and not Future Year 2022 where there's a clone of it as a free online service.

@bahadrtaspinar4575

Жыл бұрын

@@Jacob0481 LMAOO

@IZZY-eo3dp

Жыл бұрын

@@Jacob0481 🤣

@tejasbhagat4444

Жыл бұрын

you didn't do it in a lift

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!

This classic Microsoft Excel ad deserves to be digitalized.

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.

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

@eng3d

Жыл бұрын

Visicalc guys? That later lotus stole the idea, then quattro stole them and bill gates stole all of them

@hakageryu307

Жыл бұрын

Tell me you're desperate for positive validation without telling me you're desperate for positive validation. Sit on your prayer emoji and spin and when you're done go learn how to code instead of acting like everything you can't do is simply "Magic".

@mtzkid261

Жыл бұрын

@@hakageryu307 I can just tell you don’t have many friends 😂😂😂😂

@nelinearni

Жыл бұрын

@@hakageryu307 bruh

@tonymudau3005

Жыл бұрын

Lol that's so mean dude

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.

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

27 years later we are still using it daily

@kuljahanproductions4587

Жыл бұрын

we are? where

@MrMerithra

Жыл бұрын

@@kuljahanproductions4587 here on Earth

@jimmybaldbird3853

Жыл бұрын

@@MrMerithra you guys here from algorithm too?

@lookupverazhou8599

Жыл бұрын

@@jimmybaldbird3853 What algorithm. There is no way in hell this should ever have been recommended to me..

@xNamsu

Жыл бұрын

@@kuljahanproductions4587 the finance industry is literally built on excel. The people working in banking need to know how to use it without a mouse to be able to work efficiently. They are insanely dependent on it.

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!

@crashpal

Жыл бұрын

Auto fill is one of the best gifts. You have no idea how much time it saves

@mdony722

10 ай бұрын

I am suprised the professional design template had been there that long

@MartiensBezuidenhout

9 ай бұрын

I always thought they copied Autofill from Google Sheets haha

@MaDrung

6 ай бұрын

@@MartiensBezuidenhout Google did not even exist then lol.

@MartiensBezuidenhout

6 ай бұрын

@@MaDrung yeah I am aware of that hehe... I only started using the autofill function in Excel after usign it on Google sheets and then trying it in Excel also. For some reason I just assumed it was a new feature - I had no idea its been part of Excel for this long, hence my comment.

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

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."

@megapure4667

Жыл бұрын

Came here looking for this

@retardray5701

Жыл бұрын

Got pretty much the same feeling from this! "Let's see Paul Allen's spreadsheet" and so forth...

@uwu-jv2jn

Жыл бұрын

3:16 is pure bateman

@souza7107

Жыл бұрын

was the first thing that came into my mind

@rbasket8

Жыл бұрын

The ad has all the American Psycho vibe, aura

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

@mtlicq

Жыл бұрын

MS bought out the true developers of that, LOTUS 1-2-3 and MS Word was Word Perfect from Ottawa

@dubbro

Жыл бұрын

You mean like... Jobs?

@ph8632

Жыл бұрын

@@mtlicq Not quite accurate. MS copied Lotus and word perfect.

@ph8632

Жыл бұрын

@@dubbro If you are referring to Steve Jobs....... He was a salesman, not a developer. Woz was the developer.

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

Worlds slowest elevator

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

@ProphetAndLoss

Жыл бұрын

I've been using it since it was released (Lotus and Supercalc before that) and it continues to drive my career!

@ChinaChuck

Жыл бұрын

@@ProphetAndLoss I started with the spreadsheet tool that came in Microsoft Works before learning Excel. I remember always wanting to try Lotus 1-2-3.

@jamesmorgan1800

Жыл бұрын

Hello friend, How are you doing today

@livingdivinity6275

Жыл бұрын

Ok, you have worked for six years. Now get married.

@jamesmorgan1800

Жыл бұрын

@@livingdivinity6275 Hello friend, How are you doing 😌 I hope this year brings happiness, joy , and peace all over the world, I’m from Key West Florida and you where are you form if I may ask? I’ve been living in Key West for 30years now?

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.

@Patrickdaawsome

Жыл бұрын

what year?

@tanbirnr2389

Жыл бұрын

Probably 90s or 2000s

@sebfox2194

Жыл бұрын

@@Patrickdaawsome 2021!

@gdgd5194

Жыл бұрын

It's 2022 you bafoons. Don't you have a calendar or something

@divadnevets9835

Жыл бұрын

I calculate all my numbers in paper and pencil (without calculator because I lost mine) until my sister introduce me Excel bruhh!! She also said that my laptop also had in built calculator lmao! And that is 2020, the year I first use laptop for the first time in my university lol. Now I understand why people called me a 80's nerd lol!

This is actually extremely well done

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

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

@sharvariteje2820

3 жыл бұрын

Same here :)

@sherbanke2289

3 жыл бұрын

Me too lol

@sumikgajbhiye3727

3 жыл бұрын

sAME here

@danielaflores2939

3 жыл бұрын

hw u feel

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

@faxepl

Жыл бұрын

Peter Jackson should make a sequel

@somethingelse516

Жыл бұрын

What a time to be an executive Vice President

@hmartinspliff

Жыл бұрын

One spreadsheet to rule them all. I'm not sure I can crunch the numbers, Samwise Gamgee....you can, Mr. Frodo, you can!

@oluwatoyinbabata8770

Жыл бұрын

With the boon of a business deal

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

This is the most inspiring content on all of KZread.

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.

@tapwater424

Жыл бұрын

At some point just use a database

@captainfancypants4933

Жыл бұрын

@@tapwater424 Sometimes a database is definitely needed, but for smaller projects excel is amazing

@tapwater424

Жыл бұрын

@@captainfancypants4933 It's probably a sign to move away from spreadsheets when you have to use integrated VB scripts, 18 tabs and network synchronization to do business.

@techwithdave

Жыл бұрын

I used to use VB script until I discovered Python. Corey Schafer (I feel) is the best teacher, if you are interested kzread.info/head/PL-osiE80TeTskrapNbzXhwoFUiLCjGgY7

@miltonhayek2494

Жыл бұрын

@@tapwater424 I'm not disagreeing. But that isn't up to guys like me. And these companies don't often see the long game. Actually we just left som of our automation to go back to Excel because the third party software costs where too high. Using Excel they can just fill it in then use script to bring it in.

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...

@ststst981

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised to hear him say "autofill", i thought that was a new feature

@DrJRMCFC

Жыл бұрын

I guess you never saw Wingz. Now that was ahead of its time

@tonytinder2627

Жыл бұрын

As an accountant i would rather find a new career than to do accounting without excel

@killthecardinals

Жыл бұрын

Excel has changed considerably. You should see the built-in formulas available now vs back then. Maybe the basic features have not changed too much, but under the hood, Excel is light-years ahead of what it used to be.

@NckMrrtt

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Let's give thanks to..... Visicalc

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

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.

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

@obediahpolkinghorniii564

Жыл бұрын

…second only to Minesweeper.

@r.j.w7924

Жыл бұрын

@@obediahpolkinghorniii564 I mean...I thought that was implied.😂

@BlakeMcCringleberry

Жыл бұрын

It's a spreadsheet, a database, a word processor, a note taking system, and a flight simulator!

@TwentyNineJP

Жыл бұрын

@@BlakeMcCringleberry here in Japan it's often used in place of word processors, and you'll find the occasional person using it just to hold images 😅

@w.k8624

Жыл бұрын

@@BlakeMcCringleberry Now we know why it slows down the computer so much.😀

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

@dr.angerous

Жыл бұрын

I was actually expecting that for a moment, it looked like a parody but then I realized no that's not gonna happen it's a commercial xd

@dzonikg

Жыл бұрын

Probably recorded in few tryes

@benjaminmarcelocaballero1706

Жыл бұрын

Windows 3.1 was actually a very stable OS.

@EXMachina.

Жыл бұрын

​@@benjaminmarcelocaballero1706 We are talking about a portable Computer in the late 90s, not a desktop.

@justinhenryhaynes

Жыл бұрын

I'm impressed the fully charged battery didn't die before he got to the desk.

"Success is excellence that excels"

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

@Covid-me1xf

10 ай бұрын

we use Calc today.

That's some hard 90s right there.

@PeaceDweller

Жыл бұрын

The decade when only intelligent people had computers.

that was the longest elevator ride ever😂😂

@aniketb2010

Жыл бұрын

Yeah... What if it was just 6 floor building?? 😉

@sirgatsen

Жыл бұрын

maybe the elevators were also slow like everything of that time 😂

@meiinuyasha

Жыл бұрын

you know how tall a 60 floors build is

@purpl3grape

Жыл бұрын

The twin towers were pretty tall if I recall correctly.

@robertsaget6918

Жыл бұрын

It's the twin towers

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

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

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

@gustavcarl

Жыл бұрын

what does "odd" mean?

@talkshow69

Жыл бұрын

@@gustavcarl IKR, smartphones were looked upon as witchcraft when they were first released, given how flippant people are about their iPhone being a year old.

@BabyBugBug

Жыл бұрын

@@gustavcarl look it up

@BigBoss-rr4sw

Жыл бұрын

@@gustavcarl Weird. Strange. Funny. Freakish. You pick

@lacku2677

Жыл бұрын

@@gustavcarl google is free dude

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

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 work in a it companies business team.. Here excel and people skill are the only two things helped me work my way up. When I joined here, never thought it would be this easy and I will thrown out in 3 months

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."

@ulyssesmullins3181

Жыл бұрын

Does that actually happen?

@emuccino

Жыл бұрын

Then he recreates the spreadsheet in 30 seconds, saves the company, and receives a 30mil bonus

@haksinternationallancing3603

Жыл бұрын

then they made google sheets

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

@jeffspc88mx

Жыл бұрын

😆

@M.Universe

Жыл бұрын

lol

@codekulturbonn

Жыл бұрын

Maybe they could have fixed one or two crashes since then. Sadly also that they got bored and completely destroyed the user experience

@stellviahohenheim

Жыл бұрын

Can't wait to watch friends and do coke

@mattp12

Жыл бұрын

@@stellviahohenheim not same

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.

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

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.

@lieutenantshibby

Жыл бұрын

Are you joking

@anildharni

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't find any info online about ford opening a building for doing spreadsheet calculations. How certain are you about this being true? Can you please point me to some link regarding this? I want to use this somewhere else.

@johnchristian7788

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! Can anyone post links to the article?

@Tekknorg

Жыл бұрын

Read Kobo Abe's The Bet.

@originalm3233

Жыл бұрын

@@lieutenantshibby This person is not joking. Go watch videos or read about the impact VisiCalc made. Research Dan Bricklin. There used to be teams upon teams of people doing manual processes before computers really took hold. Some of these manual processes continued even after mainframe computers were purchased by large corporations. There was still a huge amount of physical paperwork and manual processes. It really took specialized software and microcomputers (PCs) to start to erase all of the old school stuff.

Good stuff! I remember shooting that in downtown Seattle.

@janinewacker123

10 жыл бұрын

You did a great job!

@manasathamatani8614

3 жыл бұрын

you were the suave cool guy!!!

@charliedays

2 жыл бұрын

@@janinewacker123 God, time really flies by! I'd be so fascinated if I was an actor in that commercial. Making part of a computer program that changed the world! Recommended by Coursera. Thanks so much for sharing this!🤗

@romarssieverything9667

Жыл бұрын

woah!

@shaunsteele8244

Жыл бұрын

nice... how did you land that gig?

The laptop is from Apple and the ad as well. The art direction/music is reminiscent from the Mac ads of the time; the font at the end too. Two software boxes of Excel are shown, the one on the left is the Macintosh version. Makes sense for Apple to promote Excel as they wanted to grow in the business market.

This is beyond impressive.

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"

@grizzomble

Жыл бұрын

They didn't even do any research, everyone in the biz knows Safari is 3750

@urmama54

Жыл бұрын

i see this as elo ratings required to do 'xyz' in each quarter

@munsifhusni7745

Жыл бұрын

@@grizzomble 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@Jahu-qs2us

Жыл бұрын

In my experience Tennis in Q2 tends to be 1150. So this ad snt really accurate.

@evonne315

Жыл бұрын

I'll take Safari for 3300 Trebek!

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

@MafistoPL

Жыл бұрын

exactly

@mikedenby6771

Жыл бұрын

You had to be there! I even remember how big the box for the original Quake game was

@PastPresentFuture360

Жыл бұрын

So very true. Nostalgia!

@Soskouy

Жыл бұрын

@@mikedenby6771 it was like a textbook lol

@Soskouy

Жыл бұрын

@@rsh650 lol whoosh

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

The fact that these dude didnt receive an academy award is beyond me

I miss the 90s. The world seems so full of hope and the future seemed bright.

The best part is that that is not actually a 10 % quarterly growth because Excel merely expanded the table using the same absolute differences as opposed to actually extrapolating the relative differences.

@omnirhythm

Жыл бұрын

Stop it, there's not enough money in the world to pay for your wizardry and you'll trigger the collapse of economics as we know them.

@RAMMY237

Жыл бұрын

Not the best, but yeah :) And who cares, by the way. None of the workers have idea about the numbers, except those Excel guy :D

@OneFatStatue

Жыл бұрын

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that!

@dieterrosswag933

Жыл бұрын

If you would have wrote in English more ppl would have understood

@misanthropolis-zone-act3

Жыл бұрын

Excel may be good at pattern matching but it's not perfect lol

They spared us the 30 blue screens they got during the shooting :) Seriously awesome commercial!

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