Is There Much Difference in Excel 2002 and 2003?

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I have Excel 2002 and want to buy and devour a manual. I found only one and don't care much for it. There are tons of them for Excel 2003 and I like a lot of them.

Would I be foolish to buy the '03 manual when I have the '02 program?

Cathie
 
Cathie:

I really doubt there are too many differences. Heck, I even didn't see much difference between 2000 and 2007 versions!!

Usually it's just a few bells and whistles.
 
Paul, right now my eyeballs are falling out so it's hard to tell which is a bell and which is a whistle. Someone told me that working on spreadsheets for long stretches is the worst thing you can do to your eyes.

They are right, so right. Maybe I'll be so blind I won't be able to even read the silly manual. :icon20:

Guess I'll break down and get the one for 2002, but I'm not a fan of the Dummies books. sigh

Thanx!

Cathie
 
I don't know the answer either, but I bet they're very similar. Spreadsheets were big in the early 90's, but not so much these days. Some shops used to use them as a basic way to calculate prices. (6% of those using computers in the shop still do, according to the recent poll results) I use it yearly to do the math for the annual grumble technology survey, but that's about it.

The 2009 version of CALC (openoffice.org 's free clone of Excel) is probably more fully featured, and comparable to the newest version from Microsoft. The price is FREE.

Mike

PS: I did a bit of googling, and found the differences between Excel from Office XP (2002) and Office 2003. These are the improvements in the 2003 version: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa203719(office.11).aspx
 
Oh, groan. :) Oz, I have a very good friend in Perth. (Doncha love people who ask you if you know one person in a city of bazillions?

Anyway, I believe she was the first female judge in Australia. If you were ever involved with the law, maybe you've run across her. Mary Ann Yeats is her name.

Mike and others: I think my problems with these pretty-comprehensive-complicated programs is I don't use them often enough or extensively enough. I'm trying to cram in Excel and a few other wow-'em-with-extra-capability software items. They're running together and the result is hash.

I bought a 2002 Dummies manual and will go from there. We must use Excel because that's what others in the network have. And they're not even as proficient as I: a bad sign, for sure. :(

Cathie
 
MerpsMom said:
Oh, groan. :) Oz, I have a very good friend in Perth. (Doncha love people who ask you if you know one person in a city of bazillions?

Anyway, I believe she was the first female judge in Australia. If you were ever involved with the law, maybe you've run across her. Mary Ann Yeats is her name.
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Cathie,

I'll say hello to Mary Ann next time I am arrested and she happens to be the Judge ! ;)

Seriously though, Perth is a small place (Compared to US Cities), and people in the industry tend to know or know of each other... But I'm happy to say, I stay on the right side of the law, so we may never cross parths :)
 
MerpsMom said:
I have Excel 2002 and want to buy and devour a manual. I found only one and don't care much for it. There are tons of them for Excel 2003 and I like a lot of them.

Would I be foolish to buy the '03 manual when I have the '02 program?

Cathie
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Hi... I found this on the internet. :D It starts with (Introduction:):

"Excel 2003 is the version of Excel packaged with the Office 2003 suite. This document outlines many of the new features of Excel 2003 and how it differs from Excel 2002."

Website:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Office03/Excel03/excel03.html
 
Thanks for that! And I found the same article while cruising. It made me stop worrying about it and I bought the 2002 book: why look for trouble? :)

C
 
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