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Excel 2016 and 2019 for Windows are still in Extendend Support until Oct 14, 2025. The table in the summary section in the article is not right: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/excel-2016 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/excel-2019 It is right, that the support for Excel for Mac (2016 and 2019) has ended: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/excel-2016-for-mac https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/excel-2019-for-mac 2A00:6020:4903:3100:525:93B8:D7A7:99BA (talk) 16:39, 20 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

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The last sentence of the paragraph "Conversion Problems" currently reads as follows, and I want to propose following modification to it:

Reasoning is:

1. IMO there was no issue to fix, at least in the classical sense. Microsoft most probably intended Excel to behave like that. In an article introducing the new settings, Microsoft did not acknowledge that they have fixed some issue, read https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/control-data-conversions-in-excel-for-windows-and-mac/4215336.

2. This "fix" is not applied automatically. Excel's default behavior still shows this "issue". Users have to configure their instance of Excel to behave as they prefer. Users who just read that this short sentence might leave Wikipedia thinking that this unintended automatic conversion of inserted data is not worth to be aware of. BananaNetwork (talk) 20:45, 16 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

 Done I trimmed your suggested wording but hopefully kept the spirit. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 20:44, 17 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Pages about other software in Microsoft's Office Suite, like PowerPoint include extensive information about development history. 58.188.187.251 (talk) 12:02, 8 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Citation 139 now points to a malware domain at https://earnandexcel.com/blog/excel-games/. Corpusmorpus (talk) 00:06, 19 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

In December 2021, Empirasign published research demonstrating there are a large number CUSIPs (alphanumeric strings) that Excel will convert to an integer or a float (scientific notation). As of February 2026, at least 3,000 of these ambiguous CUSIPs have been discovered by Empirasign.[1] Red73 (talk) 16:48, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply