Why I buy this one ?
- Upgrade available on these qualifying applications: Microsoft Access 2000-2002; Microsoft Office Access 2003; Microsoft Works 6.0-10; Microsoft Works Suite 2000-2006 or later; any 2000-2007 Microsoft Office suite; and any Microsoft Office XP suite
- Features a new, results-oriented user interface to make powerful productivity tools easily accessible; offers an increased spreadsheet row and column capacity of one million rows by 16,000 columns
- Gives you the option of displaying a spreadsheet dynamically as HTML for easier online access; Excel Services users can navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views -- all within a Web browser
- Resizable formula bar and context-based Formula AutoComplete help streamline the formula authoring process
- Dramatic visual effects in just a few clicks, quick table formatting and a completely redesigned charting engine help you better communicate your analysis

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What our customer's say!

"Excel 2007", This product is awesome. Every day I see something else that is useful to me. Thanks

"Annoying interface and Twice as Slow!", The new menus/toolbars take up a lot of screen real estate. And, despite what Microsoft says about speed improvements, I just did some tests (I uninstalled '07 and installed '03) and calculations that took 5 seconds and 52 seconds (in Excel 2007) now take 3 seconds and 27 seconds (in Excel 2003). It's almost twice as slow.

"Fail", I am a power user of Excel and have been using it for nearly as long as it has existed, but I do not own this latest incarnation of Excel and never plan to.

A good friend recently purchased a new laptop running Vista and with a full installation of Office 2007. She called me to help her with a spreadsheet that she migrated from Excel 2003 that was not updating correctly on several of the formulas. I can honestly say I've never been more frustrated by a piece of software in my life! I can navigate a spreadsheet with my eyes closed, but not only couldn't I solve the update problem she was having with Excel 2007, I couldn't find anything on the "ribbon" that was remotely familiar.

If you purchase this "upgrade", expect to spend hours trying to figure out how to do things that previously took you minutes or seconds to accomplish in the past. The ribbon is an abomination.


"One Star Is a Gift - ", By way of background I have used Visicalc, Supercalc, Lotus and several earlier version of excel. I have used one of the programs an average of perhaps 2 hours a day for the past 25+ years.

Even the latest version of Excel lacks the productivity of 1990's supercalc with many more keystrokes and mouse movements required to perform simple operations. The 07 version of Excel is nearly unusable in a productive environment as it struggles to perform basic and complex jobs. It may be great at graphics, but the far greater need is to generate accurate, quality spreadsheets.

Microsoft has sacrificed performance for the sake of change ;the increasing dependence the mouse not only slows the user but adds to physical problems.

The problems are not my opinion alone. I loaned the laptop to several grad students who returned it with a very negative reaction to the new version.

Many of our clients, including some large public agencies, intend to defer the changeover due to the loss of productivity with both the operating system and Excel 2007. We will defer equipment upgrades to avoid problems with this software.

Being Microsoft means being too large and perhaps too arrogant to say you are wrong and to take a more customer friendly path. However, in this behavior they have created a real opportunity for a competitor to deliver a functional competitive product. Microsoft's anti competitive practices can protect it from danger while it delivers inferior products but can not be relied upon to protect it from delivering defective products.

"A couple of advantages but many, many drawbacks", You can try this for free for up to 60 days by registering with Microsoft and downloading an evaluation copy. When you're sure you want it, permanently activate it with the product key you get in your Amazon package.

The new version of Excel has two huge advantages:

1. It removes the old 256 column/65,536 row limitation. You can now have 16,384 columns and more than a million rows.

2. Excel 2007 can use all the cores/processors in your computer (or you can restrict it to use only some, so huge background calculations do not tie up your machine). On my dual core computer, Excel 2007 is **way** faster than 2003 at almost every task.

I've seen no crashes, hangs, or hiccups. A widely publicized multiplication error has been reported, though - 850 * 77.1 should make 65535 but instead makes 100,000!

And everything else about Excel 2007 is frustrating. The new "ribbon" interface is unnecessary, awkward, and a waste of real estate -- it's difficult to locate features, and almost every operation takes more pointing and clicking than older releases. Bypassing the ribbon with the new "Quick Access Toolbar" is problematic because (bizarrely) Microsoft has deleted many distinctive command icons, leaving them with identical green lights. Every time you use the sort dialog, the box gets bigger, eventually filling the screen, forcing you to resize it again and again. I haven't yet worked out how to set up default formats and styles. And it's easy to inadvertently paste a formula into a million cells, triggering a coffee break-sized delay...

Excel 2003 may cost more than Excel 2007. If the two plusses don't help you, you may think that 2003 is worth more.