Are You Ready for EXCEL 2007???!!!!!
By BankersBall on Jan 5, 2007 in Cube Life, Excel, Tools
Are you ready for 1 MILLION ROWS, 16,000 columns?
Are you ready for the Ribbon?
Are you ready for smaller spreadsheet file sizes???
What about better, easier pivot tables?
Then you might be ready for Excel 2007.
Well, it sounds like from the articles I’ve been reading on Office 2007 (and Excel 2007) that the program is much better when it comes to data representation and formatting. I tried to give it a test drive but got fed up with the sign up process.
Anyway, the chart and pivot table functionality is supposed to be much improved, but as Heavy Excel Users know the big question is will the keyboard shortcuts remain the same?
It appears that Microsoft developers classify shortcuts into two categories — true shortcuts, and keyboard accelerators, which is more like using the keys to access stuff buried deep down in their menus (i.e. Alt + E + S + V = Paste Special)
While the Shortcuts (they say there are 214 of them) seem to be intact in this new version (and here’s a handy PDF to print out, the Keyboard Accelerators look like they will change, my friends.
That’s right, gone for good. Pour a forty out for old Alt + E + S + V (now Alt + Ctrl + V!!!). Which seems to make sense given that they are doing away with the old menu system in favor of something called the Ribbon, which will be throughout all of Office. But I wonder, did those over at Microsoft think about whether it makes sense for bankers?
Oh, and one last major thing: there’s a new default file type for Office. The new software can read old file versions, but not vice-versa. Here’s an explanation.
Related:
Bold Redesign Improves Office 2007
Test drive Office 2007 in your browser
Excel 2007 Developer site
Improving Performance in Excel 2007 (technical, geeky)
On Jan 5, 2007, bullTHIS said:
ANNOYING!!!!
On Jan 5, 2007, Anonymous said:
“But I wonder, did those over at Microsoft think about whether it makes sense for bankers?”
Microsoft is west coast. They could care less about bankers.
On Jan 6, 2007, Anonymous said:
keyboard shortcuts will remain the same
On Jan 7, 2007, Ritchbitch said:
Microsoft forces us to adapt anyway…
On Jan 8, 2007, MBA (My Bitch Ass) said:
God, I’m so FUCT!
On Jan 9, 2007, stock slinger said:
I’ll keep using my abbicus my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather “Gigi” used… and give me back my damned rubber band jerk off
On Jan 12, 2007, Rody said:
Holy shit you guys are lame
On Feb 8, 2007, Your Mom said:
I will dominate you on the keys no matter what happens.
On Apr 3, 2007, carolyn said:
i use office 2007.. alt E+S+V still works like always
On Mar 4, 2008, SK said:
I’m a banker, I’ve been working on Excel last 5 years day and night. I can tell you, this new Excel, is HELL for bankers. Many functionalities are down, it’s not compatible anymore… example: styles are fuck up (you need to use your mouse), colours are not in the file anymore (in your excel), when you paste a graph in powerpoint you have to maket your paste special shortcut very slowly, and when you resize your graph, your screen shows you two graphs.. you have to move on slide down and the again up to see a normal slide again. I can’t tell you how much I’m disappointed. Excel was my best friend until now… today, it’s my worst ennemy!