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.
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 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
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.
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
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
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
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.
@@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 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.
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.
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.
@@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.
Charles Simonyi- Hungarian inventor, also went to space to the ISS at one time. The entire Office bundle was his and his team's creation. Just google search his name if in doubt.
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
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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]
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.
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!
@@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
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.
@@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
@@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.
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. 🙂
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
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
@@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...
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!
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.
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.
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".
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.
@@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.
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."
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.
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.
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!
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!
@@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.
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."
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
@@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?
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
I used to use VB script until I discovered Python. Corey Schafer (I feel) is the best teacher, if you are interested czcams.com/play/PL-osiE80TeTskrapNbzXhwoFUiLCjGgY7.html
@@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.
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"
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.
30 years ago... I worked with a chemistry scientist that told me "Excel does and will do, more than any of us will ever be able to use it for!" Smart man..
Because it actually demonstrates the application and its capabilities albeit in a unrealistic situation. Modern ads cant convey their purpose, have obnoxious royalty free music, and makes you pissed off.
yeah, a lot of filmmakers have certainly forgotten the core principles of filmmaking in lieu of stuff like that, but the funny thing is is that's always been a thing, look at the original star wars where george lucas was going crazy with those windows movie maker style wipe transitions of course that doesn't mean you should do it, i usually prefer simplicity in technique
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 IKR, smartphones were looked upon as witchcraft when they were first released, given how flippant people are about their iPhone being a year old.
In case anyone is wondering, this is an ad for Excel 4.0. The first version was released for Mac in 1985, which came after a spreadsheet program called Multiplan that Microsoft released in 1982.
I'm so mind-blown! Like, some sort of Excel already existed in the '82? Because, 5 minutes ago, I was shocked to see this was an ad for Excel in 1992! when I thought the very first Windows with GUI was '95. I said _no way_ people used spreadsheets when all they had was ms-dos. I was so wrong in many levels...
@@TheDoomer666 Correct - spreadsheets existed before/without GUI. Also, Windows and MacOS came out in the 80s, and both used GUIs from the start. Go see if you can find the original Macintosh announcement event with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. You might find it interesting.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
30 years later, it is the global standard software for businesses and accounting, and pretty much anybody can use it. I use Excel all the time for so many things other than accounting.
Even though I do not work in a field that uses this heavily, I am always shocked at the amount of people who do not even understand that one must press Enter to stop editing the cell. I thought everyone could use excel as well, but I promise you there are many adults today who have never imagined even this archaic level of complexity in a spreadsheet.
I have always said that you could make Excel literally talk to you. Given the number of audio files its linked to and the right formulas and macros, an Excel spreadsheet COULD talk to you.
@@moiseskerschener2634 It's almost like one existed for much longer than the other... Also, OP is used to using Excel and therefore knows the interface better than Google Sheets.
Then, along came the free iWork for Mac, with Pages, Numbers and Keynote and out went Word and Excel, for which I had been paying an extortionate annual fee. The great thing about all my Word and Excel files was they were accessible by iWork, so I lost nothing.
Nowadays I’d say Google Workspace has become more popular for casual work, due to it being free and having cloud share. But yes, MS Office is still dominating business.
I was selling PC's back then and when I saw Excel on a PC with its boxes round the cells I could not believe it. I also can't belive that it 30 years ago!
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.
I might be that last guy🤣
Hahaha
... And the work in question could easily be automated.
Sad
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.
they also had to kill Quattro Pro in the process 😞
@@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
i currently have 2 exams tomorrow and plan to spend the rest of my free time tonight studying. its also 7pm
As f**ked up as it may seem to those who aren't built that way, some people just perform better under pressure.
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.
Thank you so much for your kind comment. Much appreciated!
@@janinewacker123 It's my pleasure Jan:)
I was about to ask whos this woman...and you did it..
She doesn't look that good to notice her. Especially if you compare her with models of 80's and 90's.
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.
😂😂😂 as a helpdesk tech i approve this message
These days, people tend to use Excel for taking notes or simple as a makeshift phone book.
@@waschosen-Yep, anything more complex than simple record taking, we should be using databases and/or python/R or similar.
Literally having to show people these functions in 2024
Yes... You can still make Pacman game in macros nowadays.
Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's spreadsheet.
Look at the subtle drag and drop function. The tasteful table red-blue colour scheme. Oh my god it even has currency formatting.
@@stevensutton4677 underrated af
jesus that was slick
@@stevensutton4677 not bad, not bad at all
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
Yup this was genius in itself
a lot of other features are even older, coming from visicalc in 1978
Right?! I am SHOOKETH at how it still looks the same!
It never had to change because it did exactly what it needed to from the start. A beautiful bit of software.
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
Did you never try another spreadsheet? I don't like Excel. I use spreadsheets since 30 years.
@@dralger just get good
Props to Microsoft Excel for single-handedly carrying the whole Microsoft Office suite.
facts every other program from Microsoft is dookie cakes
@@voiceofreason2674 Office? powerpoint? Yall tripping MS office still the king
@@MrTiktok4 Google slides is way better
@@voiceofreason2674 slides is trash let's be real.
I've made architectural designs on powerpoint.
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.
😆
🤣🤣🤣
you bastard!
Sincerely
A Backend Dev
What do you mean relational database? Please explain...
@@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 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.
What would you recommend to a first time user?
I didn’t know you could move a chart by highlighting and dragging it. Thanks for this mini Excel lesson! 😄
@@TheViSi-vc6je Better late than never! 😂
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.
One thing that ad could have shown to complete it would have been making a chart.
What happen to those 1%
@@gordon1545 Charts in the early 90s version of Excel, what?
Wow, no wonder people who work in offices have depression 😩
Yeah fr
It's really, really hard to exactly describe how ridiculously revolutionary this was when it came out.
Think like “iPhone 4 launch”, but for overpriced business software
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.
@@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.
It wasn’t.
Most people do not understand that man can do almost anything related to engineering with it...
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.
Whoever invented the excel is a genius
Charles Simonyi- Hungarian inventor, also went to space to the ISS at one time. The entire Office bundle was his and his team's creation. Just google search his name if in doubt.
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.
Most of my co-workers still can't do this.
"If it ain't broke, no need to fix it".....quite a few things in life could learn from this formula 😁
Everyday mathematics is still the same.
Visicalc and Lotus 1-2-3 were like 10+ years old by the time this came out.
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
I like how the old commercials were more complete than todays tutorials lol 😆
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.
There is no today, there wasn't yesterday
@@adammccabe640 shutup stoner
@@BigMTBrain o
they couldn't flip channels then
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?
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
😂😂😂 true
guy: copy pastes
other guys: WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT
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.🙂
Some things are taken for granted with time when it's becomes so easy it's almost like an instinct 🤣.
It was 1992, you weren’t even born
30 years and there is always that guy with a slingbag and bicycle helmet. Those guys never die.
Is it not the same when we still see people still wear suit? lol
Until they actually DO, crushed by an SUV.
Yup!
The real question is why was he heading to the 60th floor of a business place??
@@colinpierre3441 I have no idea my dude. Probably he owns the place.
loved those old boxes, you felt you had something.
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this video suddenly appear to my recommended videos, I think this is a sign to start learn Microsoft Excel
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
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.
How's it hangin today? 🤣
What you need to say you know to get a job, and what you actually do at the job are two very different things.
if you can do a spread sheet without excell yeah. it's simple with good software.
Haha. Currently doing an unpaid intern for flutter.
""She wants a ten percent increase, so let's give her that."
Some things never change when it comes to spreadsheets and presentations.
I was waiting for Wilson to say, "These numbers look too perfect" as she continued burning holes in their souls with that gaze...
@Issan Cali Reject that's what I was thinking. She always wants it bigger 😉
“That bitch wants to see simple math. Let’s show her that.”
New title: "How to cook the books in minutes with Microsoft Excel"
STILL, to this day... more fiction is written in Excel than Word.
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.
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]
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.
that's very cool Bateman, but that's nothing
It’s called Bone.
@Olivier Verdys some men just want to watch the world burn
The font's Sicilian Braille
I actually got American Psycho vibes from this commercial.
I don’t think people realize how much the entire global financial system is built upon the back of Excel.
Those who know, they do. That's all the cognizance required.
not just finance - lots of Fortune 500 companies are.
It still is bruh lol. Entire trading platforms and risk management software are built on the back of Excel VBA with C++.
@@gmshadowtraders legacy ones for legacy banks
@@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.
Thank you for showing me features I didn't even know existed. Excel is still the graveyard of intuitive design.
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
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!
Too long. Nobody cares. I promise
@@Scott-got-caughtwrong. Some can read
30 years later... Excel is still the main player for companies.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video.
In fact, that is the point of innovations :)
Im sure you did!
There is no doubt in my mind that you THOROUGHLY enjoyed this video. Excel is the best!!!!!!!!
Im not old enough to know what a professional world without excel looked like
The world's most important ERP software is not SAP, Oracle or similar stuff, but MS Excel.
@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.
And many, many people still aren’t aware of the feature.
@@snaeshaads8203 Didnt knew until this vídeo lol
@@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
When it works ...
I never even knew about it and I've been using Excel since '95 lol. Gotta check it out.
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.
This is accurate
No one will be living on Mars in 30 years.
Reels will definitely be gone by then (Thank god)
30 year from now we will see all the video on how people got scammed with crypto, monkeys jpegs, and elon clown musk
AI winter is a thing.
I can't tell you how many times I have found myself in this exact situation. Microsoft Excel is a lifesaver!
Going up to 50th floor in a Manhattan highrise c. 1992? 🤔
Ad actually explains the product while managing to stay humorous, hard to do with software. Nice job 👍🏽
yeah, but it lasted over 4 minutes
@@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
@@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.
@@bigoled4929 my apologies, you are definitely more correct! Slow paced is the right word here
@@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. 🙂
Databases using excel?
@@Gositi If the scale of the data is small. SQL for larger volumes and better organization.
@@DarkGT still tho: ew
@@Gositi Agree, asking for troubles if you use as database.
Lotus 1,2,3: all I remember were the weird looking boxes. I first used Excel in college in 1994. Got indoctrinated early.
It’s amazing how advanced this was. I only started using excel for work in 2020 and it blew my mind.
To be fair you still would have gotten fired for that. lol
This classic Microsoft Excel ad deserves to be digitalized.
Imagine living in a world where this is considered impressive... How did people even do things before Excel?!
Paper and adding machines, excel took over for a good reason haha
Lotus 1-2-3
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
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
@@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...
I do 10 year financial projections within an hour and I’m still unemployed. This dude is something else
Be a superman. Companies want a superman.
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.
@@Jacob0481 LMAOO
@@Jacob0481 🤣
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!
Microsoft Excel was a trend setter, it was way ahead of it's time. Still in 2023 it's a great great tool.
I‘m wondering, if laptop batteries could last that long in 1992.
They actually lasted a lot for the technology at the time, because graphics were simple and they had little power.
@@Mario_N64 makes sense, didn‘t think about that.
@@ninestar968 and about planned obsolescence?
@@Mario_N64 No WiFi either.
@@AndyK.1 also there's no way they aren't fitting a decent battery in that massive shell
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.
So how do you like the evolution of excel so far?
You must be very proud of yourself it is quite an accomplishment👍
Literally no one makes Office products lol
That’s a pretty cool story
You sir and Mr Bricklin basically allow the modern world to exist. Let it sink in for a moment.
Thanks for the 33 years old tutorial it worked.
Love the cut to the bike messenger's face when he hears "you're lucky to be alive". Nice touch.
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🙏🏻
Visicalc guys? That later lotus stole the idea, then quattro stole them and bill gates stole all of them
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".
@@hakageryu307 I can just tell you don’t have many friends 😂😂😂😂
@@hakageryu307 bruh
Lol that's so mean dude
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.
show them chat gpt 4 next. Or if you don't have 4 than show them claude sonnet
just reminded me of an incredible journey of exploring computers and software back in 2000s. very much same interface.
27 years later we are still using it daily
we are? where
@@kuljahanproductions4587 here on Earth
@@MrMerithra you guys here from algorithm too?
@@jimmybaldbird3853 What algorithm. There is no way in hell this should ever have been recommended to me..
@@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.
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."
Came here looking for this
Got pretty much the same feeling from this! "Let's see Paul Allen's spreadsheet" and so forth...
3:16 is pure bateman
was the first thing that came into my mind
The ad has all the American Psycho vibe, aura
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.
I actually just learned a few new features watching this ad!
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.
what year?
Probably 90s or 2000s
@@Patrickdaawsome 2021!
It's 2022 you bafoons. Don't you have a calendar or something
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!
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!
Auto fill is one of the best gifts. You have no idea how much time it saves
I am suprised the professional design template had been there that long
I always thought they copied Autofill from Google Sheets haha
@@MartiensBezuidenhout Google did not even exist then lol.
@@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.
I can't believe we still use this program today. Absolutely amazing
we use Calc today.
Most amazing and mesmerizing tool of the history....
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."
Does that actually happen?
Then he recreates the spreadsheet in 30 seconds, saves the company, and receives a 30mil bonus
then they made google sheets
This video shows a number of things that we take for granted. Hats off to the MS Excel Developers 🎉
MS bought out the true developers of that, LOTUS 1-2-3
and MS Word was Word Perfect from Ottawa
You mean like... Jobs?
@@mtlicq Not quite accurate. MS copied Lotus and word perfect.
@@dubbro If you are referring to Steve Jobs....... He was a salesman, not a developer. Woz was the developer.
This is the most inspiring content on all of CZcams.
I’m from the third world , I loved the bad suits, terrible haircuts from that era …I loved this ad , brought back filthy memories
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 I started with the spreadsheet tool that came in Microsoft Works before learning Excel. I remember always wanting to try Lotus 1-2-3.
Hello friend, How are you doing today
Ok, you have worked for six years. Now get married.
@@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?
@@livingdivinity6275 why?
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
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.
They give a real and full tutorial inside the ad ! Genius
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...
I was surprised to hear him say "autofill", i thought that was a new feature
I guess you never saw Wingz. Now that was ahead of its time
As an accountant i would rather find a new career than to do accounting without excel
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.
Yes. Let's give thanks to.....
Visicalc
"Craig, this is VERY IMPORTANT, Wilson wants to know what's 10% of one thousand. And then 20% and then 30%! We're screwed!!"
Wow. This is great! They did a fantastic job here.
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.
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.
At some point just use a database
@@tapwater424 Sometimes a database is definitely needed, but for smaller projects excel is amazing
@@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.
I used to use VB script until I discovered Python. Corey Schafer (I feel) is the best teacher, if you are interested czcams.com/play/PL-osiE80TeTskrapNbzXhwoFUiLCjGgY7.html
@@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.
Arguably the single most important and influential software application ever developed.
…second only to Minesweeper.
@@obediahpolkinghorniii564 I mean...I thought that was implied.😂
It's a spreadsheet, a database, a word processor, a note taking system, and a flight simulator!
@@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 😅
@@BlakeMcCringleberry Now we know why it slows down the computer so much.😀
Microsoft Excel - One of the best invention in the Tech world🔥.
My gosh! The acting in this infomercial is incredible!!!
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"
They didn't even do any research, everyone in the biz knows Safari is 3750
i see this as elo ratings required to do 'xyz' in each quarter
@@grizzomble 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
In my experience Tennis in Q2 tends to be 1150. So this ad snt really accurate.
I'll take Safari for 3300 Trebek!
A tale of determination in spite of all the odds. Truly a hero’s journey.
Peter Jackson should make a sequel
What a time to be an executive Vice President
One spreadsheet to rule them all.
I'm not sure I can crunch the numbers, Samwise Gamgee....you can, Mr. Frodo, you can!
With the boon of a business deal
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
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.
The trackball module on the laptop completes this whole scene of nostalgia so well
I'm impressed with that 90s laptop being able to click and drag those lines without causing a BSOD or overheat
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
Probably recorded in few tryes
Windows 3.1 was actually a very stable OS.
@@benjaminmarcelocaballero1706 We are talking about a portable Computer in the late 90s, not a desktop.
I'm impressed the fully charged battery didn't die before he got to the desk.
The fun part is "my spreadsheet doesn't do that" is my reaction as well in 2023
Excel es y seguirá siendo uno de los mayores aciertos de Microsoft
30 years ago... I worked with a chemistry scientist that told me "Excel does and will do, more than any of us will ever be able to use it for!" Smart man..
Better off using Java or Python
@@damiengates7581 Why reinvent the wheel?
I think that is a round about way of saying it has a bunch of useless features...
This ad does not have any digital super stylish transitions but it can convey the purpose far better than the current generation of advertisements.
Because it actually demonstrates the application and its capabilities albeit in a unrealistic situation. Modern ads cant convey their purpose, have obnoxious royalty free music, and makes you pissed off.
@@none-qs3sl Yeah.
yeah, a lot of filmmakers have certainly forgotten the core principles of filmmaking in lieu of stuff like that, but the funny thing is is that's always been a thing, look at the original star wars where george lucas was going crazy with those windows movie maker style wipe transitions
of course that doesn't mean you should do it, i usually prefer simplicity in technique
Right, because it's about 8 times as long as the current generation of videos
Longest elevator ride in history. He forgot to wait for all the windows, updates and patches.
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
what does "odd" mean?
@@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.
@@gustavcarl look it up
@@gustavcarl Weird. Strange. Funny. Freakish. You pick
@@gustavcarl google is free dude
In case anyone is wondering, this is an ad for Excel 4.0. The first version was released for Mac in 1985, which came after a spreadsheet program called Multiplan that Microsoft released in 1982.
I'm so mind-blown! Like, some sort of Excel already existed in the '82? Because, 5 minutes ago, I was shocked to see this was an ad for Excel in 1992! when I thought the very first Windows with GUI was '95.
I said _no way_ people used spreadsheets when all they had was ms-dos. I was so wrong in many levels...
@@TheDoomer666 Correct - spreadsheets existed before/without GUI. Also, Windows and MacOS came out in the 80s, and both used GUIs from the start. Go see if you can find the original Macintosh announcement event with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. You might find it interesting.
@@vaportrails7943 thanks, will do.
I was not even born yet.... Dang!!
Multiplan! Great pull.
This is actually extremely well done
Thanks Microsoft you changed my life forever
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.
Are you joking
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.
Interesting! Can anyone post links to the article?
Read Kobo Abe's The Bet.
@@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.
COURSERA brought me here too! Also the free time I got due to the COVID 19 pandemic right now. :(
Same here :)
Me too lol
sAME here
hw u feel
I get some serious Twin Peaks vibes from that. Especially with that music playing at the end.
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
30 years later, it is the global standard software for businesses and accounting, and pretty much anybody can use it. I use Excel all the time for so many things other than accounting.
Even though I do not work in a field that uses this heavily, I am always shocked at the amount of people who do not even understand that one must press Enter to stop editing the cell. I thought everyone could use excel as well, but I promise you there are many adults today who have never imagined even this archaic level of complexity in a spreadsheet.
why not google sheets?
@@moiseskerschener2634 because excel can do way more
I have always said that you could make Excel literally talk to you. Given the number of audio files its linked to and the right formulas and macros, an Excel spreadsheet COULD talk to you.
@@moiseskerschener2634 It's almost like one existed for much longer than the other... Also, OP is used to using Excel and therefore knows the interface better than Google Sheets.
Now it's hard to imagine a world without Excel, Word, Outlook, etc. Microsoft has absolutely owned the world's business sector for decades.
You said it right
Then, along came the free iWork for Mac, with Pages, Numbers and Keynote and out went Word and Excel, for which I had been paying an extortionate annual fee. The great thing about all my Word and Excel files was they were accessible by iWork, so I lost nothing.
Nowadays I’d say Google Workspace has become more popular for casual work, due to it being free and having cloud share. But yes, MS Office is still dominating business.
@@MarsFKA Plus libreoffice.
Excel is outdated
I was selling PC's back then and when I saw Excel on a PC with its boxes round the cells I could not believe it.
I also can't belive that it 30 years ago!
Were you selling them in a garage with Frank Costanza and Lloyd Braun? 😂
It is amazing to see that excel has the same features as today, 30 years ago.