Microsoft Excel error cannot use object linking and embedding

Are you trying to use Microsoft Excel, but are you getting the error message 'cannot use object linking and embedding'?

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft. Excel was first released in 1983 as a tool for use with the Microsoft Office suite of applications.

Microsoft Excel is used to create and manipulate spreadsheets, which can contain lists, numbers, text, charts and graphics. Spreadsheets can be shared between users, which allows each user to work on the same spreadsheet simultaneously.

The interface was designed to support both touchscreen devices and traditional keyboard-and-mouse computers. Spreadsheets can be created using a spreadsheet editor or through the user interface.

In 2010 it was estimated that over 2 billion people used Excel across multiple platforms. Excel includes many features for manipulating data, such as conditional formatting and charting, that are intended to make data analysis easier for people who have a variety of types of data available in different formats (e.g., tabular data from a database table and textual data from text files).

These features allow users to select specific cells or ranges of cells and apply one or more formulas to them, thereby applying calculations and functions across the selected cells or ranges of cells; for example, the cell containing "4" could be formatted as red by using conditional formatting with the background color set to red and the foreground color set to black , or a chart could be drawn showing the number of times a certain word appears in a document.

Excel was first released in 1983 as part of the Microsoft Office suite, and has since been extended and updated several times.

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