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INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL

Microsoft Excel has been around since 1985, so it's no surprise that thebasic spread sheet elements of the program have remained fairly constant

for quite some time. That said, there is always room for improvement,

and Microsoft Office Excel has a bunch of new features in every new

version


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INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL 2003


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INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL 2007

The latest version of Microsoft Office Excel 2007brings with it some of the mostnotable enhancements to this popular suite of applications in years.


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FEATURES COMPARISON OF EXCEL

2003 & EXCEL 2007


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USABILITY COMPARISON OF EXCEL

2003 & EXCEL 2007


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BUSINESS OR BUSINESS USER

Unless you seriously require the new features that Excel 2007 offers, do not upgrade yet! Excell

2007 is great, but in terms of usability, it is very hard for someone who has been using Excel

2003 for years to work at the same level of efficiency in Excel 2007 as in Excel 2003 for at

least a few weeks to a month or longer. Simply speaking, there is a big learning curve when

upgrading. The 'Ribbon' style interface will throw most people off almost immediately and

it will hurt productivity. That, in addition to the fact that Excel 2007 is not yet as stable as its

predecessors, should signal that it is better to wait for a newer version of Excel to come out,

when all the bugs have been fixed, and then think about upgrading.

When you or your business does inevitably make the transition from Excel 2003 to Excel

2007(or later) it is a good recommendation to install the newer version of Excel while still

keeping the older version. This can be achieved simply by do doing a custom install and

then opting to keep all previous version of Excel. This way, you will be able to slowly

transition into the new Excel and learn how to do everything with a minimal loss of

productivity.


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EXCEL 2007


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COMPARISON OF EXCEL 2003 & EXCEL 2007

Features Excel 2003 Excel 2007

Rows 65,636 1,048,576

Columns 256 16,384

Workbook Size Limited to 16 FULL

Worksheets in any one

Workbook, or instance of

Excel.

Limited only by available memory.

Header/Footer Basic and limited. Allows colour formatting to text inHeaders and Footers. Also allows

you to display different headers and

footers on even and odd pages as

well as the first page.

Formatting Cells 512 global font types

available, 4,000 unique cell

formats available, and

basic cell formatting style

options.

1,024 global font types available,

64,000 unique cell formats

available, and more advanced cell

formatting and style options such

as shadows.


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Pivot Tables 32,500 unique items per

field allowed. Must formatPivot Tables manually.

1,048,576 unique items per field

allowed. Can quickly format PivotTables with present Themes.

Sorting Sort with up to three

conditions.

Sort with up to 64 conditions. Can

sort by specific formats and not just

text.

Cell Linking Limit of 65,472 workbookarrays referring to other

worksheets.

Limited only by available memoryfor the number of arrays referring

to other worksheets.

Nesting Formulas 7 levels of nesting - i.e.

maximum of 7 nested IF

statements.

64 levels of nesting - i.e. maximum

of 64 nested IF statements.

Formulas Formulas can contain up to

30 arguments. Formulas

can contain 40 operands.

Formulas can contain up to 255

arguments. Formulas can contain

up to 1,024 operands.

Graphics Basic 'Up-to-Date' Can create charts and

graphics in much better form than

excel 2003.


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Conditional

Formatting

Allows maximum of three

conditions.

Allows maximum of 64 conditions.

Conditional formatting ranges in cells canoverlap. Conditional formatting can

continue after the condition has been

met. Conditional formatting can be

applied to non-adjacent ranges.

New

Conditional

Formatting

Types - Excel

2007

N/A Colour Scales

Data bars

Icon sets

Top or bottom ranked values

Above or below average values

Unique or duplicate values

Table column comparison to determine

which cells to format

Customization Can customize the look

and feel extensively and

it is very easy to add your

own toolbars and

buttons.

It is more difficult to customize Excel 2007

and you are not able to add custom

buttons or toolbars to the new 'Ribbon'

style interface, only a quick access

toolbar.


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USABILITY COMPARISON OF EXCEL 2003 & EXCEL 2007

Usability Excel 2003 Excel 2007

Editing between

versions

Cannot edit all charts and

tables and graphics fromExcel 2007 unless those

spread sheets have been

saved in the 97-2003

format in Excel 2007.

Can edit formats from previous

excel versions. Files must be savedin the 97-2003 format to make

them fully editable in previous

versions.

Interface Classic, easy to use and

standard for many years.

New 'Ribbon' style interface which

is very confusing at first. Everythingwhich was previously text based is

now graphical. It will therefore eat

up more memory to run but, in

theory, shouldn't be too noticeable

for most users.

Macros Easy to record and use

whenever you want.

More difficult to record some

macros. Also, macros will not work

in password protected workbooks.

Macro Buttons Very easy to customize and

change.

Very difficult to customize and

change.


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USABILITY COMPARISON OF EXCEL 2003 & EXCEL 2007

Usability Excel 2003 Excel 2007

Large Files Will open quickly and

handle relatively efficiently.

Takes a long time to open large

files. However, will run largenumbers of formulas faster than in

Excel 2003.

Stability Very stable; Tried and true. A number of issues have been

reported with Excel 2007 not

opening files, not saving files, and

basically just going through theprocess of gradually improving due

to it being a new program.


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