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Hello everyone,
I need to buy an excel version and 2007 is obviously the newest. But my
concern is that I will need to be able to open and work on excel sheets that
were created in both Excel 2003 and Excel for Mac. Will the 2007 version
support both? Thanks!

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Yes it does but I would not recommend buying it unless you are in dire need
of
the new functionality introduced in 2007. I have both but I am using only
2003. Only when I
do support on 2007 do I use it. If you are intermediate or above chances are
that it will
slow down your productivity (at least for about 70% who do the switch) There
are some improvements but
IMHO not worth upgrading for. It is extremely un-customizable, only by using
3rd part applications can you change the interface. Functions easily found
in previous versions take extra clicks to get to, if you can find them.

I know there are some people that like it but the overwhelming majority that
I know of do not like it.

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Hello everyone,
I need to buy an excel version and 2007 is obviously the newest. But my
concern is that I will need to be able to open and work on excel sheets
that
were created in both Excel 2003 and Excel for Mac. Will the 2007 version
support both? Thanks!



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It supports Excel 97-2003... I don't know about Mac but I am sure it does.

It does have a steep learning curve though... It takes time to get used to
the new ribbon interface...

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Hello everyone,
I need to buy an excel version and 2007 is obviously the newest. But my
concern is that I will need to be able to open and work on excel sheets that
were created in both Excel 2003 and Excel for Mac. Will the 2007 version
support both? Thanks!

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Is it possible to still download and purchase the 2003 version?

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It supports Excel 97-2003... I don't know about Mac but I am sure it does.

It does have a steep learning curve though... It takes time to get used to
the new ribbon interface...

"CommMajor" wrote:

Hello everyone,
I need to buy an excel version and 2007 is obviously the newest. But my
concern is that I will need to be able to open and work on excel sheets that
were created in both Excel 2003 and Excel for Mac. Will the 2007 version
support both? Thanks!

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Is it possible to to download the 2003 version still? Sorry if this got
posted twice.

"Sheeloo" wrote:

It supports Excel 97-2003... I don't know about Mac but I am sure it does.

It does have a steep learning curve though... It takes time to get used to
the new ribbon interface...

"CommMajor" wrote:

Hello everyone,
I need to buy an excel version and 2007 is obviously the newest. But my
concern is that I will need to be able to open and work on excel sheets that
were created in both Excel 2003 and Excel for Mac. Will the 2007 version
support both? Thanks!



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You can buy it at Amazon but I suggest you buy Excel 2007...

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Is it possible to to download the 2003 version still? Sorry if this got
posted twice.

"Sheeloo" wrote:

It supports Excel 97-2003... I don't know about Mac but I am sure it does.

It does have a steep learning curve though... It takes time to get used to
the new ribbon interface...

"CommMajor" wrote:

Hello everyone,
I need to buy an excel version and 2007 is obviously the newest. But my
concern is that I will need to be able to open and work on excel sheets that
were created in both Excel 2003 and Excel for Mac. Will the 2007 version
support both? Thanks!

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Why?

There is a huge price difference?

Unless you get the student version the standard version of 2007 is over
$300.00

Whereas you can buy 2003 for less than 100.



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You can buy it at Amazon but I suggest you buy Excel 2007...

"CommMajor" wrote:

Is it possible to to download the 2003 version still? Sorry if this got
posted twice.

"Sheeloo" wrote:

It supports Excel 97-2003... I don't know about Mac but I am sure it
does.

It does have a steep learning curve though... It takes time to get used
to
the new ribbon interface...

"CommMajor" wrote:

Hello everyone,
I need to buy an excel version and 2007 is obviously the newest. But
my
concern is that I will need to be able to open and work on excel
sheets that
were created in both Excel 2003 and Excel for Mac. Will the 2007
version
support both? Thanks!



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If you're a student, you may want to look he
http://www.microsoft.com/student/dis...s/default.aspx



CommMajor wrote:

Hello everyone,
I need to buy an excel version and 2007 is obviously the newest. But my
concern is that I will need to be able to open and work on excel sheets that
were created in both Excel 2003 and Excel for Mac. Will the 2007 version
support both? Thanks!


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Well that's nice of Microsoft to forget about the people at the Junior
College level. Most JCs dont have e-mail setup for students and now that
universities are so expensive thats where most people are starting out

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

If you're a student, you may want to look he
http://www.microsoft.com/student/dis...s/default.aspx



CommMajor wrote:

Hello everyone,
I need to buy an excel version and 2007 is obviously the newest. But my
concern is that I will need to be able to open and work on excel sheets that
were created in both Excel 2003 and Excel for Mac. Will the 2007 version
support both? Thanks!


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A couple of clicks on that site brought up this contact MS:
http://ms.bluehornet.com/surveys/submit_my_id/en_us

I don't think they forgot you!

Lynn wrote:

Well that's nice of Microsoft to forget about the people at the Junior
College level. Most JCs dont have e-mail setup for students and now that
universities are so expensive thats where most people are starting out

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

If you're a student, you may want to look he
http://www.microsoft.com/student/dis...s/default.aspx



CommMajor wrote:

Hello everyone,
I need to buy an excel version and 2007 is obviously the newest. But my
concern is that I will need to be able to open and work on excel sheets that
were created in both Excel 2003 and Excel for Mac. Will the 2007 version
support both? Thanks!


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