Thanks to you too,
Good advice. As you say, if MS decide to change something then we have
little choice but to go along with it. Vista will be on almost all PC's in a
few years and XP and it's predecessors won't be supported so if you don't
like it, hard luck or MAC.
I still think that MS fix things that aren't broken though, for example the
cursed little boxes in XP which tell you that the adjacent cell doesn't have
a formula in it. I bloody well know it doesn't, go away!
That's progress I suppose,
Thanks Again,
Alan.
"JLatham" <HelpFrom @ Jlathamsite.com.(removethis) wrote in message
...
I think Roger has given an honest assessment of it. I'll say this: if you
think they moved things around in Vista, wait until you see the Office
apps.
But as Roger said, 'get over it'. Eventually, be it tomorrow or years
from
now, you will eventually be using that interface. I've found that the
Help
is improved and asking how to do something that you were familiar with in
XP
or 2003 will result in good instructions for doing it in 2007. HELP
itself
is improved. Not perfect, but better than before

Roger's question/answer session was good: must have? not if what you have
now is doing the job you need and there is nothing specifically in 2007
that
would make your life incredibly simpler:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...738731033.aspx look and see.

Nice to have: yes, you'll be ahead of others in the learning curve for it,
and you can even participate in these forums finding out how to make it do
what you need it to do and discuss problems/solutions with others pretty
much
at the same learning level of 2007 as yourself.

Will it get better: yes, I think we're going to see an SP1 (no, I don't
have
any inside info) that will take care of the complaints we've seen coming
from
specific areas such as macro recording and charting and probably others I
haven't heard about or noticed in these discussion forums.

If I personally have complaints about it, it is in the area of charting.
I'm very disappointed in the experience (I can do some charts 10x as fast
on
a single core, several year old CPU with half the memory on the system in
Excel 2003 than I can on a new Core2 E6600 system running Excel 2007).
But
in other areas, I really don't have any complaints of serious note at all.
They speak of improvements to pivot charts and you mentioned them- I
cannot
address that, as they are not something I use much at all. Conditional
formatting is much improved and should eventually do away with a lot of
the
"how do I get conditional formatting for more than 3 conditions" requests
we
see so often hear.




"Alan" wrote:

Hi,
I've been using Excel for many years, my current version is from Office
XP.
Is it worthwhile upgrading to 2007?
Is there any fundamental improvement like the introduction of Pivot
Tables
years ago, or is it mainly cosmetic?
I know it has lots more columns and rows available but apart from the
nuisance of not being able to use 365 columns for every day of the year
that's
never really been a problem to me.
I'm told that there are formula options like COUNTIFS which will do what
SUMPRODUCT does looking for two values in two columns but I haven't seen
them, if they exist are they worthwhile?
The reason I ask is that I've just bought a new PC with Vista, not from
choice, the old one gave up the ghost. Vista has its good points like the
search facility which I must admit is good.
There are however a lot of issues with it like incompatibility with long
standing software, constant hard drive activity from updates etc, the
'Run'
command and others are in a different places and the Control Panel is
different for no
real reason as far as I can see. It looks pretty but I think MS have a
habit
of fixing things that aren't broken. Is that the case with Excel 2007 or
is
it a must have?
Any advice appreciated,
Regards,
Alan.