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There are many differences between Excel 2003 and Excel 2007. Some of the changes in Excel 2007 are improvements. Some are strongly disliked by users of past releases of Excel. The following are some of our major findings when we compared Excel 2003 to Excel 2007.
We do recommend that if you have Excel 2003, that you do a custom install of Excel 2007 and tell it to keep all prior versions. This will allow you to use your prior version if you need it. The default installation of Excel 2007 automatically removes all prior versions. We think having the prior versions around is a good thing.
Why should you upgrade to 2007? There are a number of good reasons:
- Number of rows increased from 65,536 to 1,048,576.
- Number of columns increased from 256 to 16,384.
- You do a lot of graphics work and need the new graphics tools and options (although some complain about the built in defaults and data)
- You do a lot of pivot table work and need the new pivot table features in 2007
- You are receiving workbooks that are Excel 2007 workbooks
- Maximum number of function arguments increases from 30 to 255
- Formula length increases from 1000 to 8000 characters
- Nesting levels for formulae increased from 7 to 64
- Unlimited cell-conditioning formats
- 64 sort levels
- Office XML Formats allow for better data integration between documents and back-end systems. Also, with Excel XML Formats, you can reduce file sizes, improve data recovery, and increase the interoperability of your spreadsheets with other data sources such as line-of-business systems.
- Business dashboards can be easily created from spreadsheets to track key performance indicator.
- You can import external data into a spreadsheet by using pre-configured external sources of business information
- Developers can use the Office Excel 2007 calculation engine in other applications, such as a Web-based mortgage calculator or an options pricing model.
Why should you stay with Excel 2003 (or an earlier version)
- The Excel 2007 interface is harder to use. More functions are visible on the new menu system but the lists of functions are longer so regular functions are more difficult to find.
- You are used to using Excel 2003. You will find that using Excel 2007 takes longer to do many of the tasks you used to do. This is part experience and part design. The first can be overcome, but it will take time. If you have used Excel 2003 for years.
- New file formats and file name suffixes
- Files are larger
- No Lotus123 support or conversion to versions before Excel v4
- Pre-Excel 2007 versions need additional drivers to read Excel 2007 files
- No change to any statistical functions between Excel 2003 and Excel 2007
- Macro recording of chart macros works very poorly in Excel 2007.
What options do you have to overcome the above three problems?
- A number of companies sell products that add back the classic Excel menus to Excel 2007. In all cases, you do not get all the menu items as some have disappeared. And new features are not found on the new menus.
- If you do chart macros, you can always use Excel 2003 to record a macro and then copy it to Excel 2007. Some modifications may be necessary however to get the code to work correctly.
- If you are very statistically minded, see the review of Excel 2007 in "Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 52 (2008) 4568-4606" (www.elsevier.com/locate/csda), "On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2007", McCullough and Heiser.
What else can I help you with?
What the differences between Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2010?
Well Microsoft office 2007 is very good but Microsoft office 2010 is better, the reason for this is because the actually documents you do on Microsoft like word and spreadsheets are a lot clearer
Differences between Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Office 2007?
there are too small differences if you are using regularly for home use
Difference between Microsoft access 2003 and 2007?
differenciate the Microsoft access 2003 with 2007and 2010?
How do you get new Microsoft office 2007?
get the 2010 from here-- http://hifkool.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsoft-office-2010-pro-plus.html
What is word 2003 and 2007?
Word 2003 and Word 2007 is a word processing software designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983. Last April 10, 2010 Microsoft released a new version, the Microsoft Office 2010.
Is Microsoft office 2010 is accesible in Microsoft office 2007?
Yes, MS Office 2010 is accessible in MS Office 2007 because both of these programs use xml file formats.
Why use Microsoft visual 2007?
Microsoft has Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and (in beta) 2010. There are also older versions. There is no Visual Studio 2007. (Are you talking about Office 2007?)
In Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 menus and toolbars were replaced by what?
ribbon
Which extension identifies a file as a Microsoft Access 2010 database?
.accdb is the extension used for Access 2007 and 2010.
What is the Difference between previous version and Microsoft visual studio 2010 beta 2?
Firstly the UI at the start but also parallel computing and Azure services.
How do you get Microsoft Word 2007?
Office 2007 were replaced by Office 2010. And Office 2010 is now replaced with Office 2013. You can get it in most electronics stores in and out of Internet.
Can i create a Microsoft Word 2010 doc and send it as a Microsoft 2007 doc?
Yes. go to file then save as... then under where you type in the file name choose from the list microsoft word document for 2007 or 2003 or whatever you want.
