MS Office Excel 2007

I found myself in the course of last year upgrading to Microsoft Excel 2007 from the old 2003 version. I was really glad I did make the upgrade in the end because there really is a big improvement. It is available for XP and Vista and I have found the overall performance of the software to be very good. It is very quick to start-up and when loading documents etc it is also very quick. The installation I found to be very easy and it doesn't take very long at all which is always beneficial. The first major improvement that I noticed was that the layout and general interface was significantly better. Unlike in previous versions of Excel all of the tools are now ...  Read the complete review

The frequency with which Microsoft issue new versions of software always made me wary of the updating my home PC: call me a traditionalist if you like, but I prefer familiarity to novelty, and this is certainly the case with the new version of Excel. Microsoft have made some significant changes to the menu tabs at the stop of the screen which confused me somewhat to start with; why change these when the new tabs don't add that much to the funtionality of the product? The old drop down approach has been eschewed in favour of a kind of lateral scroll technique (no doubt there is a technical term for this!) which I found rather disconcerting. That said, after playing ...  Read the complete review