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Please be so kind and inform me, how you got the name of the product Excel. Maybe it means Excellent or maybe Ex Cell (out of the cell) or maybe something else?
Here are the versions https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-name-of-Microsoft-Excel
It was announced https://books.google.ru/books?id=2i4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17&dq=excel+why+called+excel+1985&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit9IedrYDbAhVqSZoKHaUnC2YQ6AEIUzAH#v=onepage&q=excel%20why%20called%20excel%201985&f=false really as excelled over Lotus 1-2-3, perhaps that's one of the reasons for the name.
Super information, thank you.
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