This makes us wonder if Microsoft has forgotten to update the internal version number of Excel from 16.0 to 17.0? Update JanuMicrosoft: The major version of Office 2019 is staying at 16.0 Although we did notice that Excel 2016 with the latest updates is missing some features that are new in Excel 2019, such as funnel charts. Has Microsoft forgotten to update the internal version number in Excel 2019?īased on the detailed version numbers (7.20118), it seems as if Excel 2016 with the latest updates is exactly the same as the new launched Excel 2019. In the 'Programs and Features' section in the Windows Control Panel, the version number of Office 2019 is also 16.0.

Via File > Account, Office 2016, shows the exact same version as Office 2019:

Upon further research, we noticed that the detailed version numbers, via 'File > Account > About Excel' are also exactly the same for Excel 20:Įxcel 2019 with latest updates on October 5th, 2018 shows: 7.20118Įxcel 2016 with latest updates on October 5th, 2018 shows 7.20118: The command 'Application.Version', returns 16,0 for both Excel 2016 and the new Excel 2019.Īnd the command 'Application.Build', also returns the exact same number when the latest updates are installed. To our surprise, we noticed that the new Excel 2019 internally still shows the number 16 as the version and not a higher number such as 17 or 19. We recently purchased and installed the new Office 2019 in order to (successfully) test ASAP Utilities with it. We expected Excel 2019 to return the number 17.0 (or 19.0) but certainly not 16.0. However, the new Excel 2019 returns the same version number as Excel 2016 (16.0). Is Excel 2019 just Excel 2016 with a new name?Įxcel developers can use the command 'Application.Version' to get the version of Excel.

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