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Microsoft Excel 2003 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

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I love excel and have run excel 2003 for years - but I sure don't like excel 2007 - the menus are busy, over-developed and non intuitive - and you can't modify them back to the "classic" look and feel - what a step backward - I'm throwing away the money I put into buying 2007 and getting 2003 back - it's a super program, but 2007 is a real step backwards interface and useability wise. Buy 2003 if you have the chance - it might be forced out sometime - then I go to a mac running XP and I'll stay non upgraded.

Essentially, we were forced to purchase this upgrade to fix some problems with complex, macro-laden spreadsheets. It worked, but IMHO the price of this three-year-old software is too high. Every other similar product's price gets lower over time, but not Microsoft's products. I don't know why some other company doesn't copy their original formula, namely, creating similar software at a lower price that reads (and co-opts) the competiton's datafiles.

For me, this is the last uncluttered version of Excel. I made them uninstall Excel 2007 at work and put this version back. I am an expert Excel user and VBA programmer and don't appreciate having to dig through all of the new choices in new menus to get where I used to go with one keystroke. Why can't Microsoft make things simple like Apple?