Upgrade to VISTA -- Switch to Excel?

[Nick Hodge]

George

Not used QP and am obviously familiar with Excel so I like it. If you get
Excel you will be compatible with most of the world and also with Word

If you are looking to save cash, you will lose little if you can pick up
Excel 2003. If you go for the brand new version it is XL2007 but the file
format has changed and whilst there are many features to recommend it
without saving it to an earlier version, or anyone else having the
compatibility pack installed on their machine they won't be able to open
them.

You might want to look at Office, although you already have Word as this is
often cheaper than any of the stand alone applications.

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)
www.nickhodge.co.uk

 

[George]

Greetings -- I am a household user who has used Quattro Pro 7 since
1999 on Windows 98 -- only for household use. Will be upgrading to
VISTA sometime in the next few months and wonder if I should buy the
Microsoft package containing Excel or the Corel package containing
Quattro.. Some family members tell me that I should go to Excel --
that Quattro is not the way to go. For word processing I am already
using Microsoft Word. Any suggestions?

Regards, George

 

[T. Valko]

If as you say, you only use spreadsheets for your own domestic purposes and
you already know how to use QP, I think I'd stay with QP.

Of course, Excel has a much larger market share but if you're not involved
in that market then switching just for the sake of switching doesn't make
sense. There's also the learning curve to consider going from QP to Excel.

Back in the day I prefered QP over Excel. But I had to use what was provided
and we eventually used only Excel.

Biff

 

[Michael Bednarek]

Greetings -- I am a household user who has used Quattro Pro 7 since
1999 on Windows 98 -- only for household use. Will be upgrading to
VISTA sometime in the next few months and wonder if I should buy the
Microsoft package containing Excel or the Corel package containing
Quattro.. Some family members tell me that I should go to Excel --
that Quattro is not the way to go. For word processing I am already
using Microsoft Word. Any suggestions?

Now that Microsoft Excel (XL) has finally caught up with Quattro Pro
(QP) regarding maximum sheet dimensions, there is -apart from price-
probably not much left to prefer QP. However, you should investigate
whether XL will be able to read your existing QP workbooks.

I don't understand how anyone could voluntarily prefer Microsoft Word
over WordPerfect(*), but seeing that you do, you might as well go the
whole hog. Then again, I don't understand how anyone could call the
installation of NT6 (aka Vista) an "upgrade".

(*) I use and support MS Word, but I don't have to like it. I believe
for serious wordprocessing WP runs rings around MS Word, and alway has.

 

[Don Guillett]

I would usually recommend only excel. However, Quattro and excel and not
very compatible and you will really have to re-learn a lot. You may be
happier staying with Quattro. Also, I would imagine that the price is less.