How to update Exhel

The Microsoft Excel program provides users with the necessary tools and features to work with spreadsheets. Its capabilities are constantly expanding, various errors are corrected and the elements present are corrected. For normal interaction with software, it should be periodically updated. In different versions of Excel, this process is slightly different.

Update current Excel versions

At the moment, the 2010 version is supported and all subsequent, therefore, corrections and innovations are regularly produced. Although Excel 2007 is not supported, updates are also available for it. The process of their installation is described in the second part of our article. Search and installation in all current assemblies, except 2010, is equally implemented. If you are the owner of the mentioned version, you need to go to the "File" tab, open the "Help" section and click on "Check availability of updates". Next, just follow the instructions displayed on the screen.

Users of subsequent versions should be familiar with the instruction on the link below. There is detailed in detail the process of innovation and corrections for fresh Microsoft Office builds.

Read more: Updating Microsoft Office Applications

There is a separate manual for Excel 2016 owners. For him, last year a significant update was issued, corrective many parameters. Installing it is not always done automatically, so Microsoft offers this manually.

Download Excel 2016 update (KB3178719)

1. Go to the component downloads page on the link above.
2. Run down the page in the "Download Center" section. Click on the desired link where the title is present in the title of your operating system.



3. Select the appropriate language and click on "Download".



4. Through the browser loading or save space, open the downloaded installer.



5. Confirm the license agreement and expect to complete the installation of updates.

Update Microsoft Excel 2007 on your computer

In all the time of the existence of the software under consideration, several of its versions came out and many different updates were issued for them. Now support for Excel 2007 and 2003 ceased, since the emphasis was made to develop and improve more relevant components. However, if for 2003 it is not to find any updates, then since 2007 things are a little different.

Method 1: Update via the program interface

This method is still functioning normally in the Windows 7 operating system, but it is impossible to use subsequent versions. If you are the owner of the above OS and want to download an update to Excel 2007, this can be done like this:

1. Left at the top of the window is the "Menu" button. Press it and go to Excel Settings.



2. In the Resources section, select "Check availability of updates".



3. Wait until the end of scanning and installing, if required.

If you appear to use the "Windows Update Center" window, refer to the links below. They provide instructions on the launch of the service and manual component installation. Together with all other data on the PC installed and files to Excel.

Now you can run software to work with spreadsheets.

Above, we tried to maximize the maximally to tell about the updates of the Microsoft Excel program of different versions. As you can see, there is nothing complicated in it, it is only important to choose the appropriate method and follow the instructions. Even an inexperienced user will cope with the task, since additional knowledge or skills are not needed to perform this process.