Excel can’t add up properly – is that an acceptable compromise or something Microsoft should fix? We’ve been covering the Excel addition issues in a series of recent articles starting here. To round out the coverage we’ll now take a look at the arguments pro and con so that Office Watch readers understand the limitations that […]
Microsoft has a standard response to any maths anomalies in Excel – KB214118 – we have a look at what it says and doesn’t say. Microsoft has a ‘get out of jail free’ card when it comes to floating point / binary math errors in Excel – it’s called Knowledge Base article 214118 and it’s […]
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Here’s Microsoft’s response to the anomalies found in Excel’s adding up. We asked Microsoft for a comment on the Excel addition problems that our readers have been discovered. Office Watch pointed out the anomalies in results when the same numbers are added in a different order or grouped differently – something that should make no difference to […]
Office Watch readers come up with some truly strange arithmetic – Excel style. The conclusion: Excel definitely can’t add up – in fact it would fail an elementary school maths test. Does Excel have an addition bug? You’d think that was a simple question to answer, you just insert the numbers and it either adds […]