Upgrade to Excel 2007

[Domski]

Hi,

Excel 2007 has been about for some time now and I've still to get my hands on it. The main reason for this is we won't be getting it at work for at least another 12 months and I'm finding it hard to justify the cost for what little use I would get out of the additional features at home.

I just wondered what other Mr Excel'ers thought of the new features after using them for a while and at what stage of the upgrade process they were at.

Dom

 

[Domski]

I know up to Excel 2003 you could enter the day or date and then drag with the right mouse button held.

This then brought up a number of options for filling days, weekdays, months etc. Does this not work in 2007?

Dom

 

[barry houdini]

You can still do both of those in Excel 2007, drag holding the right button or use Editing > Fill > Series

Editing section is at the far right if you're in "Home" tab

 

[powderider86]

Oops... no problem, easy, under the "Home" tab, far right, the edit box, click the fill button, voila!

 

[powderider86]

Wow, oops again, Houdini was all over it

 

[SydneyGeek]

Aha!

Thanks -- got it now

Denis

 

[Richard Schollar]

I'm going to increase my use of Office2007 - the only way to properly learn it is t use it and I have been resorting to Office2003 far too much. I'm only going to load Office2007 on my new laptop and do without 2003 completely. I do much prefer Word2007 over the 2003 version, and in fact Access 2007 over the 2003 version. Let's see if I can persuade myself that xl2007 can be better than 2003 too ...

 

[powderider86]

Thats the attitude... best of luck

 

[Domski]

Got home a bit ago and the package was waiting on the doormat. Just finished installing it.

Where have all my nice familiar buttons gone?

Too late to start messing with it now. Will have a play about tomorrow and see how things go.

 

[Domski]

If anyone's interested this is where I got it from:

www.software4students.co.uk

Seems kosher. You just seem to need to have a member of the household who's at school/college/uni to take advantage.

Laters,

Dom

 

[Richard Schollar]

Hey that's pretty cool Dom - which version did you go for?