Various data types used in Microsoft office Excel

1. Data Types In Excel
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Shailesh Chauhan
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2. Different Data Types
 BYTE
 INTEGER
 LONG
 SINGLE
 DOUBLE
 CURRENCY
 DECIMAL
 STRING
 BOOLEAN
 DATE
 OBJECT
 VARIANT

3. BYTE
 Length - 1 byte
 Contains number from 0 to 255 for storing binary data

5. INTEGER
 Length – 2 bytes
 Contains integer number from -32 768 to 32 767.

7. LONG
 Length – 4 bytes
 Contains Integer number from -2 147 483 648 to 2 147 483 647

9. SINGLE
 Length – 4 bytes
 Contains numeric data type with float precision to 6 decimal digits

11. DOUBLE
 Length – 8 bytes
 Contains numeric data type with float precision with double precision in
calculations.

13. CURRENCY
 Length – 8 bytes
 Contains a number with fixed 4 decimal digits

15. DECIMAL
 Length – 14 bytes
 Contains numeric data type with fixed precision and scale (precision 28).

17. STRING
 Length – 0 byte
 Contains text strings of flexible length or 64 kilobytes.

19. BOOLEAN
 Length – 2 bytes
 Contains Logical value (true or false)

21. DATE
 Length – 8 bytes
 Contains the date in range of od 1.1.100 to 31.12.9999

23. OBJECT
 Length – 4 bytes
 Contains reference to an object.

25. VARIANT
 Length – 16 bytes
 Contains basic type, special value Null, any numeric value, text, reference to
object or variable array.