Excel 2013 Preview

[T. Valko]

A bit like background error checking which gets turned off whenever I use a fresh copy of Excel.

Dom

Exactly!

 

[Michael M]

Hey Biff.....I'm hearing ya !!
I'm on 2003, with 07 at home and the ribbon still drives me nuts.
Our org (6000 odd staff) is about to change from 2003 to 2010, and the powers on high have decided we won't need any training, just an induction into the new system.
Boy, am I looking Fwd to that, 'cause I'm about the only one in our office, that has the slightest idea !!

@ArkusM
Nothing wrong with 10 year old software.......at least 99% of the code is the same !!!
and the majority of users only use about 25% of Excels capabilities.....so a new version will have little or no impact on most people !!

 

[RoryA]

Hopefully, that's something that can be disabled!

I'm 99% sure you can turn it off in the options.

 

[Domski]

Our org (6000 odd staff) is about to change from 2003 to 2010, and the powers on high have decided we won't need any training, just an induction into the new system.

Ditto. Chaos is going to reign from 1 September. Fortunately I go on holiday for a couple of weeks that day

Dom

 

[Firefly2012]

I loathe the ribbon too (although I am slowly getting more familiar with it).

I look forward to seeing the new features, although I haven't really touched what's available in 2010 yet (slicers still mean nothing to me and tables to me are things with 4 legs that you cover in a tablecloth). I'm behind the curve I know...

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

I'm excited by PowerView

 

[Firefly2012]

Jon, what's PowerView? I take it it sits alongside PowerPivot?

 

[Domski]

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/Products/PowerView.aspx

http://officepreview.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/whats-new-in-power-view-in-excel-2013-and-in-sharepoint-2013-HA102901475.aspx

Dom

 

[RoryA]

What is it with the Excel team and pie charts??

 

[Firefly2012]

Thanks Dom. So it's SQL Server rather than Excel? Completely ignorable by me in which case