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?

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?

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


"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?

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
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Bernard V Liengme
www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme
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"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?