Microsoft to Add Bitcoin Support to Excel Later This Year

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With Bitcoin popularity soaring like never before, Microsoft plans to add support for the cryptocurrency in Excel for both mobile and desktop versions.

According to the official Office 365 roadmap, updated in December, Microsoft engineers are currently working on adding Bitcoin as one of the currency formats supported in Excel installations.

The feature is expected to roll out somewhere in 2017, with no exact timeline available.

In a separate LinkedIn post, Martin Butler, Account Executive, Globals at Microsoft, has confirmed the company's plans.

"In 2017, Excel will be able to recognize, format, calculate, and analyze numbers expressed in Bitcoin currency," Butler said. "The new feature will be available for Excel running under Windows 10, Android, Mac OS, and iOS, and will include Excel Mobile versions as well."

Bitcoin support coming to Excel Online too
The feature will be rolled out with Excel 2016. Excel Online, the web-based version of Excel will also receive the update.

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