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

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"Adam Kroger @hotmail.com" <adam_kroger<nospam wrote in message
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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?