Weird question about Microsoft ExcelSo I have been wanting to learn more about how to ...

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Weird question about Microsoft ExcelSo I have been wanting to learn more about how to use Microsoft Excel so I can teach other people about some of the more advanced programming techniques. But then I really do not want to burn up all of that disk space just to run Wine and Excel.

So I got to thinking:

is there an older version of Microsoft Excel I could use instead?
The “ribbon” UI/UX asside, how far back in time (in Excel software versions) would I have to go before the formula language and cell computation engine became too different from the most recent Excel that it would not be very useful for me as a learning/teaching tool?
Would it take less disk space to run this in a minimal Windows NT 2000 or Windows XP instance on QEMU than it would take on Wine?

#Excel #MicrosoftExcel #MSExcel #Spreadsheet #software #tech #Linux #LinuxWine #QEMU #Emulation #WindowsXP #WindowsNT #RetroComputing

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