Microsoft Fixes Excel Calculation Bug

October 16th, 2007

Microsoft has fixed an embarrassing error in Excel 2007 — a major component of the Office 2007 productivity suite. The issue involves miscalculating numbers around 65,535.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.

“We are in the process of adding this fix to Microsoft Update so that it will get automatically pushed to users running Excel 2007 or Excel Services 2007,” the officials wrote on an Excel developer team blog.

Excel users can download the fix manually or wait until it is released as part of the first service pack for Office 2007. Microsoft has not yet offered a release date for Office 2007 Service Pack 1.

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