Is Excel 2019 just Excel 2016 with a new name? Excel developers can use the command "Application.Version" to get the version of Excel. However, the new Excel 2019 returns the same version number as Excel 2016 (16.0). We expected Excel 2019 to return the number 17.0 (or 19.0) but certainly not 16.0. We recently purchased and installed the new ...