Editorial Review
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One Star Is a Gift - 
2007-10-20
By way of background I have used Visicalc, Supercalc, Lotus and several earlier version of excel. I have used one of the programs an average of perhaps 2 hours a day for the past 25+ years.
Even the latest version of Excel lacks the productivity of 1990's supercalc with many more keystrokes and mouse movements required to perform simple operations. The 07 version of Excel is nearly unusable in a productive environment as it struggles to perform basic and complex jobs. It may be great at graphics, but the far greater need is to generate accurate, quality spreadsheets.
Microsoft has sacrificed performance for the sake of change ;the increasing dependence the mouse not only slows the user but adds to physical problems.
The problems are not my opinion alone. I loaned the laptop to several grad students who returned it with a very negative reaction to the new version.
Many of our clients, including some large public agencies, intend to defer the changeover due to the loss of productivity with both the operating system and Excel 2007. We will defer equipment upgrades to avoid problems with this software.
Being Microsoft means being too large and perhaps too arrogant to say you are wrong and to take a more customer friendly path. However, in this behavior they have created a real opportunity for a competitor to deliver a functional competitive product. Microsoft's anti competitive practices can protect it from danger while it delivers inferior products but can not be relied upon to protect it from delivering defective products.
A couple of advantages but many, many drawbacks 
2007-09-27
You can try this for free for up to 60 days by registering with Microsoft and downloading an evaluation copy. When you're sure you want it, permanently activate it with the product key you get in your Amazon package.
The new version of Excel has two huge advantages:
1. It removes the old 256 column/65,536 row limitation. You can now have 16,384 columns and more than a million rows.
2. Excel 2007 can use all the cores/processors in your computer (or you can restrict it to use only some, so huge background calculations do not tie up your machine). On my dual core computer, Excel 2007 is **way** faster than 2003 at almost every task.
I've seen no crashes, hangs, or hiccups. A widely publicized multiplication error has been reported, though - 850 * 77.1 should make 65535 but instead makes 100,000!
And everything else about Excel 2007 is frustrating. The new "ribbon" interface is unnecessary, awkward, and a waste of real estate -- it's difficult to locate features, and almost every operation takes more pointing and clicking than older releases. Bypassing the ribbon with the new "Quick Access Toolbar" is problematic because (bizarrely) Microsoft has deleted many distinctive command icons, leaving them with identical green lights. Every time you use the sort dialog, the box gets bigger, eventually filling the screen, forcing you to resize it again and again. I haven't yet worked out how to set up default formats and styles. And it's easy to inadvertently paste a formula into a million cells, triggering a coffee break-sized delay...
Excel 2003 may cost more than Excel 2007. If the two plusses don't help you, you may think that 2003 is worth more.
Crippled by basic function 2007-09-26
Creating a plot with a few thousand data points cripples Excel 2007. There is no problem creating the same plot in Excel 2003, while in Excel 2007 the program grinds to a halt and takes minutes to resume working, or begins to consume large amounts of memory until the program crashes. A web search shows others experience the same problem and also that Microsoft has known of the problem since June of 2007 yet, as of September 2007 has not made a fix readily available. The inability to handle basic functionality such as this is a deal breaker.
Dumbed down and harder to use 2007-07-29
The new ribbon design is supposed to make it easier to learn and use. It may be for some new users but for experienced users, it isn't. This version takes away some critical nuts & bolts customization features and many tasks now take longer to perform. This is not due to the learning curve, it is the inherent nature of the way the ribbon works. Once you are familiar with the program, nothing is faster than the old menu structure. If Microsoft added an option to allow users to choose between menus and ribbons, it would be the best of both worlds, satisfying the needs of both new and experienced users. The new version does not run macros as fast however. My recommedation for existing users: keep Office 2003 for as long as you can and consider going to Open Office when Microsoft no longer supports 2003 (unless they restore the functionality in a newer release of 2007).
VBA Macros Run Terribly 2007-05-14
We use Excel for some in-house data entry and processing. Much of this was automated using VBA, which was programmed in previous versions of Excel. It was decided that we would go ahead and upgrade the machine used for this function to the newest version of Excel, so it would be "future proofed" for some time to come. Well, that was a mistake.
Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that Microsoft would have changed so much in Excel, that the VBA macros would effectively be destroyed. Programs that use to take 2-5 seconds to run, now take minutes. It is a complete waste. I will have to spend many hours trying to figure out why the VBA code no longer functions as it did in previous versions of Excel.
Worst Ever 2008-06-06
This is possibly the worst software I have ever encountered, disjointed poorly presented an absolute disaster. I wouldnt buy this software with someone else's money, let alone my own. The only people that will appreciate this package are those who have nothing else to do than play with the unfathomable and garish "Ribbon", gone are the quick and easy links, gone is the locical progression. If you want to accomplish a task quickly and easily look for another package.
Excel 2007 is CLEARLY not as good as 2003 2008-05-21
I use excel every day & night since at least 6 years in my job (investment banking, 80-100h hours a week on excel).
Excel 2003 was a lot better as it is now: some functionalities have been removed, you have to use your mouse very often without the option to make it via your keyboard (example to apply styles to your cells), all previous shortcuts have been removed (alt+e+g for example doesn't work anymore!!); So forget about efficiency. Nothing that I would call really useful is better in Excel 2007. People who don't know how to use it will say it is nicer, but in the end, it's just a better marketing of a worse product.
I got a new computer on my job with Excel 2007, and I bought the 2003 version personnaly, so I'm sure to have it for the rest of my life.
As regards Powerpoint, when I open 2003 documents on it, all bullets and a lot of formating gets crazy, and people opening my document back in 2003 are just not able to work with it normaly anymore (document masks, bullet points, etc...) it can be very frustrating!
Outlook 2007 is better as 2003 though (specially because of a indexation search which allows you to find emails rapiddly, but I not sure if this hasn't be also added to the 2003 version eventually), but still the alt+e+g shortcut is really missing since you usually have to copy paste as a 'text only' some oddly HTML formated text from the internet.
Good luck to all the people stuck with 2007!
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Excel 2007 
2008-05-12
This product is awesome. Every day I see something else that is useful to me. Thanks
Annoying interface and Twice as Slow! 2008-04-23
The new menus/toolbars take up a lot of screen real estate. And, despite what Microsoft says about speed improvements, I just did some tests (I uninstalled '07 and installed '03) and calculations that took 5 seconds and 52 seconds (in Excel 2007) now take 3 seconds and 27 seconds (in Excel 2003). It's almost twice as slow.
Fail 2008-01-03
I am a power user of Excel and have been using it for nearly as long as it has existed, but I do not own this latest incarnation of Excel and never plan to.
A good friend recently purchased a new laptop running Vista and with a full installation of Office 2007. She called me to help her with a spreadsheet that she migrated from Excel 2003 that was not updating correctly on several of the formulas. I can honestly say I've never been more frustrated by a piece of software in my life! I can navigate a spreadsheet with my eyes closed, but not only couldn't I solve the update problem she was having with Excel 2007, I couldn't find anything on the "ribbon" that was remotely familiar.
If you purchase this "upgrade", expect to spend hours trying to figure out how to do things that previously took you minutes or seconds to accomplish in the past. The ribbon is an abomination.
