XL 03 vs XL 97

[Adam Kroger]

Is the newer version of XL that much better than 97?

I have a copy of Office '03 Student and Teacher edition, but have never
bothered to install it. Are the improvements in it actually worth the
effort to mess with it?

 

[Niek Otten]

There are several improvements, but not very spectacular ones.
The next version of Excel (due late 2006) will be the biggest change since
many years.
See

http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/default.aspx

 

[Chip Pearson]

Unless you are a power user of Excel or a VBA developer, there is
no difference between 2003 and 97.



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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com

 

[Bernard Liengme]

Chip and Niek are, of course, correct. But we might mention that the
statistical functions (STDEV, LINEST, etc) are more reliable in XL2003
best wishes