Microsoft: Excel Bug Doesn’t Add Up

September 27th, 2007

If you’ve been depending on your Microsoft Excel software to do your number crunching for you, you might want to grab a calculator and review your spreadsheets before you send the document out the door. That’s because the latest version of Excel is housing bugs that are dead set on ruining your reports.Microsoft admitted to the embarrassing error in Excel 2007 — a major component of the Office 2007 productivity suite — on Tuesday. The issue involves calculating numbers around 65,535. The Excel team offered more details earlier this week, and assured customers a fix is in the works.

The first reported problem revolved around “77.1 x 850,” according to Microsoft. But the Excel team’s testing, along with additional reports from outsiders, soon revealed this was not the only instance where Excel 2007 would return a value of 100,000 instead of 65,535.

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