Microsoft Excel 2002 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

by Microsoft

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005B0C2
• Item model number: 065-02843
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 30, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,112 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #44 in Software > Business & Office > Spreadsheet
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Excel 2002 gives novice and intermediate users more confidence in working with spreadsheets. Excel 2002 makes more of the existing functionality easier to discover and provides more intelligence to help assure users that they are not making mistakes. For the advanced users, Excel focuses on making common tasks easier and more intuitive. Excel 2002 is designed to make it easy for anyone to share data with others, connect to important data on the Web or within an organization, and analyze that data to make better decisions.

Excel 2002 allows users to spend time analyzing their data rather than worrying about their software. For example, in the past, if an error were to occur, it was likely that the user would have had to spend a significant amount of time recreating their work. With the reliability features in Excel 2002, users can continue to work even in the unlikely event of an error. Furthermore, a variety of security enhancements have been included in Excel 2002 to help users feel more secure when working with their spreadsheets.

Use the new error-checking smart tag to alert users via a smart tag of a possible error in a cell. Excel 2002 users can select a command to resolve the error, ignore it, or access further error-checking options. Function Argument Tooltips displays information about function arguments as users build a new formula. The tooltips also provide a quick path to Help. Simply click any function or argument name within the tooltip. Easily track results of multiple cells with the Watch Window, even while working on a different sheet or workbook. This prevents users from having to switch back and forth or scroll between sheets to keep track of important data. Easily dictate, navigate, and provide other commands using a microphone while working on their spreadsheets. Furthermore, Excel also supports text-to-speech, which enables Excel to read back values as part of checking a spreadsheet's contents. (Note: Speech is currently available for U.S. English, simplified Chinese, and Japanese.)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Expensive, but has several useful new features., March 12, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Excel 2002 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Excel 2002 has several enhancements over version 2000.

The autosum feature now also allows you to auto average, minimum, and maximum functions.

Another handy feature is you can now copy up to 24 different items to the clipboard. Unfortunatly Excel still doesn't allow you to add or delete row, columns, and cells without loosing the items on your clipboard. It would be useful to add or delete to make space to adjust the your clipboard materials. Lotus 123 has had this feature for years.

The smart tags are both a help and a pain. They are useful if you want to change your formatting. If you don't need them, however, they are like an ugly blot on your worksheet (They don't appear on the printed copy, only on your terminal).

The pivot table setup has a new and friendlier interface. The formula evaluation is tremendously improved. If you make an error in your formula, it is easier to trace it out.

Overall I think 2002 has more improvements than 2000 had over 97.

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Excel does have competition: StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, November 18, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Excel 2002 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

No one's arguing about whether Excel is good. It's a fine product. But given the cost, just of an upgrade to keep in line with whatever new features were created to justify the upgrade revenue, it's a joke. Unless you're a turbo macro user, or if you truly love Excel so much you don't mind it being a money pit, just go use the Excel-compatible spreadsheet in StarOffice or OpenOffice.org. The first reviewer is wrong--Microsoft does have competition, and it's from low-priced and *free* products.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not only a spreadsheet, August 22, 2002

By 

Roy D. Wallen (So. Hamilton, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Excel 2002 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Excel is certainly an excellent spreadsheet tool. However, it can also serve as an tool for text-only tasks. The ability to chart information, in text or numeric form, makes this a useful tool for presenting the written word as well. Although much of my work is in text, whever I need a table of pure text, I use Excel rather than a text-processing application. Excel-based spreadsheets, text tables, and charts can be used in presentations with impressive results. Excel is one reason why, in my opinion, Microsoft has no competition in this area.