velohead66

Any users of Excel 2007 out there.

Just wondering.......
...what your view of it is,
...what level of user you are.

I'll save my feedback on Excel 2007 for later, dont want to put my words in other peoples mouths.

Thx.

[-(o)-]

iTrader: (1)

Its taken some getting used to, been using it for about six months now. Still can't find half the old functionality and not really happy with the ribbon. Seems slower and full of bugs as well, but this may be down to some of our third party add-ins.

Yes it can handle a lot more data and there are additional functions that are nice, pivot tables are much improved etc. We're going through business change, so Excel is filling a reporting gap for the time being. This is enough to justify it for me, but if we could I'd go back to 2003 tbh.

Advanced (2003 anyway!) user by the way.

ChefDude

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx

urban

iTrader: (1)

2007 is good for the business Intelligence/analysis side of things

Once you find your way around it then its not so bad - I don't really use it so much, more so from an activeX point of view and integrating with it via code.

michaelro

Is it?

A partner Organisation recently had a Microsoft demo of Performance Point / Sharepoint trying to get them to use their tools.
His main selling point was that everyone uses Excel so why not have it as your main BI Tool

I use excel (advanced user, can write VBA etc) but consider excel only as somewhere to occaisionally dump and manipulate data, not a BI Tool.

As for 2007, I don't like the ribbon (Isn't there a Classic menu add in??) which puts me off using it extensively.
Fortunately I still use 2003 at work

banny sti

iTrader: (68)

So prefer 2003 and wish we could roll it back.

Banny

mart360

Dont like it!

all the menu,s are illogical...

Where has chart wizard gone???

it takes twice as long now to navigate as before

Mart

boxst

Once I've got over the initial "Where on EARTH is that" then I prefer 2007. I still have 2003 on my work laptop and it seems antiquated when using it.

With 2007 you can make very pretty charts that hopefully distract from the actual numbers ...

Steve

eightballboy

My skill and knowledge of excel is fairly basic but i personally hate 2007 in fact i think all the office 2007 programs are worse than their previous 2003 versions i found 2003 much easier to use.
My partner who uses these programs on a daily basis for work and is a fairly advanced user thinks excel 2007 is better.

ScoobyJawa

Took some getting used to but as per Steve, with work lappy I've got 2003 and it seems really ancient............

urban

iTrader: (1)

OK, for free (assuming you already have it that it)
I forgot the for free bit

If you want proper BI, then you certainly won't use excel2007.
SSAS/Cubes
DI diver - great product(although it was lacking behind a wee bit last year on dashboards when I looked at it)

michaelro

I'll let you off then

We use SSRS, Cubes and Business Objects.

Excel is only any good because everyone can use it and it comes with Window's.
Open Source software (Logixml etc) is better but doesn't have the market share.

Dashboards? Are you in middle management...

StickyMicky

I am still using Excel 2002

Mainly because my old man had a copy and i acquired it from him a while ago
It is used every single day to do my daily returns!

velohead66

I've used Excel daily for the last 15 years, and can write VB scripts.
I also use access where my datasets were bigger than the 65,000 rows of excel 2003.
Any lack of functionality in 2003 I could make up for with VB.

Been using Excel 2007 for 2 months now, and had a particularly bad day yesterday with macros running (or not running) from password protected suite of 20 workbooks.
I go through phases were "I feel it's ok and I just need to accept the change", to days like yesterday where "I think the whole navigation thing is a bag of sh** and has reduced my productivity."

Fortunately I use Excel 2007 on my work pc (on the network) but also got IT to create a citrix login so that I can use Excel 2003 on the same network. Needless to say I only use 2007 when I have to, and vastly prefer the feel of Excel 2003.

Unfortunately my ODBC links dont work on citrix. D'oh! So I have to use 2007 there.



I hope MS revert back to sensible menu systems in the next version of excel.

urban

iTrader: (1)

Product manger for a software solutions company.
Customers love "Dashboards"

Business objects - don't know what you do with it exactly, but I'd be inclined to source an alternative

SSRS & Cubes - good.
SSAS too?

StickyMicky

Anybody tried OpenOffice as an alternative?

I actually downloaded it last night as a test and forgot to install it