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Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
I am hoping someone can help me. I am not very savvy with computers. I have
Excel 2003 at work and want to be able to work on things at home. If I buy Excel 2007 can I email myself spreadsheets at home and work on them and then send them back to myself at work and continue working on them? Thank you! |
Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
For the sake of consistency you may be better off with 2003. Look at ebay
for LEGAL copy. -- Don Guillett Microsoft MVP Excel SalesAid Software "Abbey" wrote in message ... I am hoping someone can help me. I am not very savvy with computers. I have Excel 2003 at work and want to be able to work on things at home. If I buy Excel 2007 can I email myself spreadsheets at home and work on them and then send them back to myself at work and continue working on them? Thank you! |
Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
Yes, but you'd need to download and install the Compatibility Pack [if
you're allowed to do that at work] to allow Office 2003 to read Office 2007 documents, and of course some features of 2007 aren't availability in 2003 (and many people prefer Excel 2003 to 2007). -- David Biddulph "Abbey" wrote in message ... I am hoping someone can help me. I am not very savvy with computers. I have Excel 2003 at work and want to be able to work on things at home. If I buy Excel 2007 can I email myself spreadsheets at home and work on them and then send them back to myself at work and continue working on them? Thank you! |
Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
Would Staples or somewhere like that carry it? I don't really have time to
wait for it to be shipped by Ebay. I need to work on a report this weekend and don't really want to go in the office! Thank you. |
Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
Excel 2007 can very easily work with files created in Excel 2003 and
earlier. Therefore, you can take files from your work copy of Excel 2003 and work on them from home using Excel 2007. The reverse is not automatically true. The internal file format was changed in Excel 2007, and Excel 2003 cannot read 2007 files (there is a compatibility package to allow this). If you create a file in Excel 2007, you will need to save the file in the 2003 format if you want to work on it from 2003 at work. When you use Excel 2007 in 2003 compatibility mode, the newly added features of Excel 2007 will not be available. Unless you really need Excel 2007, you might find it considerably less expensive to purchase a valid copy of Excel/Office 2003. -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Excel Product Group, 1998 - 2008 Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com (email on web site) "Abbey" wrote in message ... I am hoping someone can help me. I am not very savvy with computers. I have Excel 2003 at work and want to be able to work on things at home. If I buy Excel 2007 can I email myself spreadsheets at home and work on them and then send them back to myself at work and continue working on them? Thank you! |
Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
Yes.
But... There are some new features that are *exclusive* to Excel 2007. Some of these features will not work on Excel 2003 so, when you're done working on your file in Excel 2007 you need to save it in *.xls format so that you can continue to use it on Excel versions prior to Excel 2007. The user interface in Excel 2007 is *dramatically* different from the one in Excel 2003. If you haven't seen it yet you'll be lost for a while. Maybe you should consider getting another copy of Excel 2003 for home use then you won't have to deal with compatability issues. You can probably get Excel 2003 for "dirt cheap". -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "Abbey" wrote in message ... I am hoping someone can help me. I am not very savvy with computers. I have Excel 2003 at work and want to be able to work on things at home. If I buy Excel 2007 can I email myself spreadsheets at home and work on them and then send them back to myself at work and continue working on them? Thank you! |
Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
Yes you can. A feature of Vs2007 is that you can save as Vs 97-2003. You
may lose some differences such as formatting, but if you do similar things and, use formulas consistent with the Vs you have at work you shouldn't run into any problems. Rob "Abbey" wrote in message ... I am hoping someone can help me. I am not very savvy with computers. I have Excel 2003 at work and want to be able to work on things at home. If I buy Excel 2007 can I email myself spreadsheets at home and work on them and then send them back to myself at work and continue working on them? Thank you! |
Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
David,
You don't need to download and install the Compatibility Pack if you save as the previous version. But I do agree, that Vs 2007 can make you pull your hair out at times. Rob. "David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk wrote in message ... Yes, but you'd need to download and install the Compatibility Pack [if you're allowed to do that at work] to allow Office 2003 to read Office 2007 documents, and of course some features of 2007 aren't availability in 2003 (and many people prefer Excel 2003 to 2007). -- David Biddulph "Abbey" wrote in message ... I am hoping someone can help me. I am not very savvy with computers. I have Excel 2003 at work and want to be able to work on things at home. If I buy Excel 2007 can I email myself spreadsheets at home and work on them and then send them back to myself at work and continue working on them? Thank you! |
Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
Thank you all for your quick responses! This is driving me crazy! I have
looked on EBay and other places for the 2003 version and it is not available at this time. I found one for $200 and there were others that had the whole office package but I already have word and outlook. When I bought my computer I didn't have it added because I had never used it and since I am 42, I never thought I would. Big mistake! Any suggestions of where else to buy it? Thank you. "Abbey" wrote: I am hoping someone can help me. I am not very savvy with computers. I have Excel 2003 at work and want to be able to work on things at home. If I buy Excel 2007 can I email myself spreadsheets at home and work on them and then send them back to myself at work and continue working on them? Thank you! |
Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
Register for a one semester evening class in basket weaving at a local
college. Then buy the academic versions of the software you want at the college bookstore. The academic versions are the same functionally as the regular versions. They are just priced for students. I once needed 3 software packages that retailed for $1,700 total. I bought the 3 academic versions at the college bookstore for about $400 total. I bought Office Ultimate 2007 for $250 at the college bookstore last year. I've seen that at retail prices in the $450-$600 range. Tyro "Abbey" wrote in message ... Thank you all for your quick responses! This is driving me crazy! I have looked on EBay and other places for the 2003 version and it is not available at this time. I found one for $200 and there were others that had the whole office package but I already have word and outlook. When I bought my computer I didn't have it added because I had never used it and since I am 42, I never thought I would. Big mistake! Any suggestions of where else to buy it? Thank you. "Abbey" wrote: I am hoping someone can help me. I am not very savvy with computers. I have Excel 2003 at work and want to be able to work on things at home. If I buy Excel 2007 can I email myself spreadsheets at home and work on them and then send them back to myself at work and continue working on them? Thank you! |
Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
Just to muddy the waters...
Depending on what you're doing, you may find that you can do your work using a different program. Maybe a free spreadsheet program would work: http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD or... Google Docs offers a free online spreadsheet program (and a word processing program and a presentation program, too) that may work for you: http://docs.google.com If you have a valid email address (college/university), you can get office 2007 pretty cheaply (60USD): http://www.theultimatesteal.com/home.asp This describes what's in it: http://www.microsoft.com/education/ultimatesteal.mspx IIRC, this offer expires April 30, 2008. Abbey wrote: I am hoping someone can help me. I am not very savvy with computers. I have Excel 2003 at work and want to be able to work on things at home. If I buy Excel 2007 can I email myself spreadsheets at home and work on them and then send them back to myself at work and continue working on them? Thank you! -- Dave Peterson |
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