Editing Microsoft Excel (section)

==== Excel 2.0 (1987) ====
The first Windows version was labeled "2" to correspond to the Mac version. It was announced on October 6, 1987, and released on November 19.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The History of Microsoft – 1987|work=learn.microsoft.com|date=April 30, 2009|access-date=October 7, 2022|url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/history/history-of-microsoft-1987|archive-date=October 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007180805/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/history/history-of-microsoft-1987|url-status=live}}</ref> This included a run-time version of Windows.<ref name="spreadsheetpage.com">{{cite web|url=https://spreadsheetpage.com/excel-version-history/|title=Excel Version History|first=John|last=Walkenbach|date=December 4, 2013|access-date=July 12, 2020|work=The Spreadsheet Page|publisher=John Walkenbach|archive-date=July 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715100722/https://spreadsheetpage.com/excel-version-history/|url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[BYTE]]'' in 1989 listed Excel for Windows as among the "Distinction" winners of the BYTE Awards. The magazine stated that the port of the "extraordinary" Macintosh version "shines", with a user interface as good as or better than the original.