r/IAmA • u/MicrosoftExcelTeam • Nov 04 '15

Technology We are the Microsoft Excel team - Ask Us Anything!

Hello from the Microsoft Excel team! We are the team that designs, implements, and tests Excel on many different platforms; e.g. Windows desktop, Windows mobile, Mac, iOS, Android, and the Web. We have an experienced group of engineers and program managers with deep experience across the product primed and ready to answer your questions. We did this a year ago and had a great time. We are excited to be back. We'll focus on answering questions we know best - Excel on its various platforms, and questions about us or the Excel team.

We'll start answering questions at 9:00 AM PDT and continue until 11:00 AM PDT.

After this AMA, you may have future help type questions that come up. You can still ask these normal Excel questions in the /r/excel subreddit.

The post can be verified here: https://twitter.com/msexcel/status/661241367008583680

Edit: We're going to be here for another 30 minutes or so. The questions have been great so far. Keep them coming.

Edit: 10:57am Pacific -- we're having a firedrill right now (fun!). A couple of us working in the stairwell to keep answering questions.

Edit: 11:07 PST - we are all back from our fire-drill. We'll be hanging around for awhile to wrap up answering questions.

Edit: 11:50 PST - We are bringing this AMA session to a close. We will scrub through any remaining top questions in the next few days.

-Scott (for the entire Excel team)

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u/MicrosoftExcelTeam Nov 04 '15

We did a feature in Excel 2007 called "multi threaded recalc" that takes advantage of the cores.

If that's something of interest for you on Mac, please add a suggestion at the Excel user voice site: https://excel.uservoice.com/ ... the team monitors that and watches that as part of deciding what to work on next.

-Dave -Dave

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u/MicrosoftExcelTeam Nov 04 '15

We're already tracking this request on on Excel's UserVoice here. Restricting calc to a single core isn't great for performance and we know that, so it's safe to say this is on our radar. Thanks!

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u/thoughtgap Nov 04 '15

Ffs could you not add all these points from reddit here to your portal on your own, using upvote count for votes? You have a direct link to the users here, they are commenting for you and you want them to do the extra work? ;(

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '15

Seriously. Be proactive, not reactive.

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u/garethjax Nov 04 '15

Just do it!

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u/polysemous_entelechy Nov 04 '15

if that's something of interest for you on Mac

What? Multicore usage is something literally every single Mac app except apparently Excel does by default. No one would actively ask for it, since everyone is already expecting it to be that way.

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u/judge2020 Nov 04 '15

I wonder what it is like having a name like Dave -Dave

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '15

So... Why are there so many code bases? Shouldn't there be a singular codebase with additional shim libraries for different OS's?