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__**Name of Sub-topic:**__ Microsoft Excel

 * Definition:**

Excel is an electronic spreadsheet program that can be used for storing, organizing and manipulating numbers and data. It's an amazingly flexible program to find answers to logic based questions. It is a program that can compile lots of data into graphs and tables.

Why should you upgrade to 2007? There are a number of good reasons: Why should you stay with Excel 2003 (or an earlier version)
 * Comparison of Past and Present Day devices:**
 * You need more than 65,000 rows on a worksheet. **Excel 2007 allows over a million rows**.
 * You need more than 256 columns. **Excel 2007 allows over 16000 columns**.
 * You do a lot of graphics work and need the **new graphics tools and options**.
 * You do a lot of pivot table work and need the **new pivot table features in 2007**
 * You are **receiving workbooks that are Excel 2007 workbooks**
 * **Office XML Formats** allow for better data integration between documents and back-end systems. Also, with Excel XML Formats, you can reduce file sizes, improve data recovery, and increase the interoperability of your spreadsheets with other data sources such as line-of-business systems.
 * **Business dashboards can be easily created from spreadsheets** to track key performance indicator.
 * You can import external data into a spreadsheet by using pre-configured external sources of business information
 * Developers can use the Office Excel 2007 calculation engine in other applications, such as a Web-based mortgage calculator or an options pricing model.
 * **The Excel 2007 interface is harder to use**. Yes, more features of Excel are exposed to a user. But compare it to going to a good hardware store versus a mega store like Lowe's or Home Depot. It is easy to find what you want in a hardware store. Finding anything in a mega store can take longer.
 * **You are used to using Excel 2003.** You will find that using Excel 2007 takes longer to do many of the tasks you used to do. This is part experience and part design. The first can be overcome, but it will take time. If you have used Excel 2003 for years, it will take a very long time to catch back up.
 * **Macro recording of chart macros works very poorly in Excel 2007**.

Excel is an electronic spreadsheet program that can be used for storing, organizing and manipulating numbers and data. It's an amazingly flexible program to find answers to logic based questions. It is a program that can compile lots of data into graphs and tables.
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