Customer Reviews

Microsoft Excel 2002 [OLD VERSION]

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Smart tags can be more annoying than anything else, however can be disabled. Handy though, is their ability to detect errors in formulas, and find the otherwise impossible to find mistake in a large speadsheet. Also cool is "border painting" feature.

Many things stay the same as 2000, though. I'm not sure that the very expensive upgrade is worth it, and you can no longer upgrade from Works, or from a standalone program (e.g. Word), but rather from an Office Suite ONLY. Be careful when ordering just the upgrade!

Of course, Excel is a lovely product, though whether you need the upgrade is highly questionable. I found this pretty much just MS trying to create a need they can charge for. Especially since you can open and create Excel spreadsheets for free without actually buying Excel... or order StarOffice 6.0 here on Amazon.

Excel 2002 is fine, but like a $6000 umbrella stand for your dog, not a lot of people actually need it.

I belive that excel on a whole is a well made item and deserves a lot of credit, but i also believe that when i bought Microsoft Excel 98 i could have just updated it over the internet every time there was an addition was available! There is no need now-a-days to keep putting the same software on disks and selling it off at extortionate prices, plus it probably has some kind of monitoring software in it as well, most Microsft items do. These are the reasons that i have given it a 2 star... it has extremely good potential but it is to expensive and to overrated for its price.

This is basically an upgrade to Excel. There is no way the upgrade is worth the price.

Excxel is my all time favorite program; it can do wonders. But there is a major problem with the new version. While running a VBA macro program that I have used daily for over five years, it is SLOWER on a 2 GHz machine with XP that with a 300 MHz machine and WIN98. The reason is excess security that can not be turned off like in Excel97. At first it was ok, a little faster than the old machine and then I suppose a critcal upgeade with XP has now slowed the program to a crawl. Microsoft has both a security problem and a hangup about security. But running a virus scan on my old and proven macros everytime they run is not the answer. If you are not using any macros then the new Excel may be OK. A better choice would be to find an old version of the program.

I think this is the best spreadsheet programme out there on the market. It's easy to use, it's a life saver when it comes to mathematical problems, I solved percentage, multiplication, additions etc... in this programme in a breeze. Just remember when you are writing a formular in a cell remember use this:
eg. =sum(b1+a5)it all works by entering the formula properly. There are no major changes in Excel 2002, you can do most of the everyday task in Excel 97 and 2000. But overall I think its a great application compared to Quattro Pro and Lotus 123.

This is a great product. The only problem is that I am getting addicted to it. I find myself spending a bit too much time not only writing macros but shading and coloring the borders, the background, the foreground, and the text. And you can use this tool in more than just accounting. My primary use, for example, constists in summarizing data on American politics and doing very basic analysis on it. You do not need a fancy social science software to do that. Also I use it for keeping track of my students' scores and analyzing various neat grade distribution patterns. I did not own any previous versions of Excel, so I cannot speak to how this version compares to its predecessors. But it runs without a glitch, and I enjoy working with it

I found excel 2002 to have features that made it much easier than the earlier versions that we have at work. for a spread sheet i find it very versitile