Microsoft Office Excel 2007 [Old Version]

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Most widely-used spreadsheet tool helps you analyze, share, and manage information more effectively
• Features a new, results-oriented user interface to make powerful productivity tools easily accessible;
• Excel Services users can navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views -- all within a Web browser
• And a completely redesigned charting engine help you better communicate your analysis

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.8 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: B000HCVR1M
• Item model number: 065-04940
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,175 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #4 in Software > Business & Office > Spreadsheet
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Analyze, share, and manage information more effectively with Microsoft Office Excel 2007, the latest version of the most widely-used spreadsheet tool. Featuring new spreadsheets that hold more data than ever before, this software gives you the freedom to import, organize, and explore massive data sets quickly and easily, and the advanced analysis tools help you make the right decisions for any situation. Whether you need to create a table or write a formula, Excel 2007's new user interface keeps things simple and straightforward.

Quick table formatting and a completely redesigned charting engine that will help you better communicate your analysis in stunning charts. View larger.

User-Friendly Operation
Excel 2007 helps reduce the time and frustration of learning new software with menus and commands that present the right tools when you need them. The improved Help system provides tooltips and links to relevant information in Microsoft Office system programs or on the Internet when connected. Get started easily by using online tutorials with step-by-step instructions or by using some of the new out-of-the-box templates. Keep your documents and sensitive information safe and secure by detecting and remove unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information in your documents using the Document Inspector.

Use the Data Connection Library to import external information, and then explore this data with Office Excel 2007 View larger.

Office Excel 2007 helps you analyze information by improving PivotTable view creation and conditional formatting and providing full support for SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. View larger.

With the new user interface, you can immediately view the most important cell-editing, formatting, and navigation tools. View larger.

Powerful Productivity Tools
Excel 2007's new, results-oriented user interface to make powerful productivity tools easily accessible. It also offers more room for you to work in and delivers faster performance. Based on the job you need to accomplish, whether it is creating a table or writing a formula, Excel 2007 presents the appropriate commands to you within the new user interface.

Versatile Options For Optimum Results
Excel 2007 gives you the option of displaying a spreadsheet dynamically as HTML for easier online access, and Excel Services users can navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views--all within a Web browser. You can also publish business-critical spreadsheets to Office SharePoint Server 2007 and set controls over which users can view and modify spreadsheets on the server. If you want to build a custom report from an online analytical processing (OLAP) database, the Data Connection Library makes it a snap to connect to external sources of data.

Increased Spreadsheet Row and Column Capacity
Excel 2007 offers an increased spreadsheet row and column capacity of one million rows by 16,000 columns that enables you to import and work with massive amounts of data and achieve faster calculation performance with support for dual or multicore processors. Quickly format cells and tables exactly as you want them by using Cell Styles and Table Styles galleries. Tables also include AutoFilters while column headers stay in view when you scroll through the data, so you can keep better manage data. For added convenience, AutoFilters populate and expand any table automatically.

Formula Authoring Options
To help streamline the formula authoring process, Excel 2007 offers a resizable formula bar and context-based Formula AutoComplete. You can also refer to named ranges and tables within formulas and functions.

Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services provide the means to share and interact with spreadsheets in a Web browser. View larger.

Professional-Looking Charts
Excel 2007 helps you create professional-looking charts with dramatic visual effects in just a few clicks, quick table formatting and a completely redesigned charting engine that will help you better communicate your analysis. By using predefined Chart Layouts and Chart Styles, or manually formatting each component, (such as axes, titles, and other chart labels), you'll save time and increase productivity. And to make sure your charts really stand out, take advantage of stunning effects such as 3-D, soft shadowing, and anti-aliasing to help identify key data trends and create more compelling graphical summaries. Page Layout View lets you see exactly how your spreadsheet will print and direct visual feedback where the page will truncate gives you the help you need to properly adjust page margins. For seamless interaction between different software applications, the Excel charting engine is consistent in the 2007 versions of Word and PowerPoint.

Improved Spreadsheet Analysis
New data analysis and visualization tools help you analyze information, spot trends, and access your company information more easily. Use conditional formatting with rich data visualization schemes to discover and illustrate important trends, and highlight exceptions in your data with colored gradients (heat maps), data bars, and icons. When it comes to sorting and filtering, two of the most important types of basic analysis that you can do with data, Excel 2007 offers new tools, such as multiselect in AutoFilters, sort or filter by color, and quick filters for specific data types. You can also create a PivotTable or PivotChart view more easily by using data fields to reorient data quickly to summarize and find the answers you need--simply drag the fields to where you want them to display. Additionally, full support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services enables you to query your most current business data.

New Excel XML Format
Reduce the file sizes of spreadsheets and improve their interoperability with other data sources by using the new Excel XML Format. This option enables a more efficient exchange of information and helps keep your business running smoothly.

Share Spreadsheets and Business Information
Excel 2007 makes sharing spreadsheets and business information easier than ever before, thanks to integration with Excel Services and the new Excel XML Format. Excel Services renders an Excel spreadsheet as HTML so others can access the information within a Web browser. Other options include creating business dashboards from spreadsheets to share within a portal, and tracking the key performance indicators of your business using browser-based dashboards that can be created from Excel spreadsheets, Excel Web Access, and Office SharePoint Server 2007. You can also enjoy the flexibility of saving files as XPS or PDF (with the installation of an add-in) for easier sharing.

Effectively Manage Sensitive Information
Excel 2007 and Excel Services enable you to manage and control spreadsheets on a server to help protect important business information and ensure that people are working with the most current data. Centrally manage sensitive information by publishing spreadsheets to SharePoint Server 2007. This both helps ensure that the members of your organization are working with the most current business information and prevents the spread of multiple versions of the same file. For added peace of mind, you can protect confidential business information while helping to ensure people can view the data they need with report management features. Using Office SharePoint Server 2007, your organization's IT staff can set up and manage Data Connection Libraries that enable people to more safely connect to external data sources without assistance. For added flexibility, you can also use the Excel Services Web services application programming interface (API) to integrate server calculation of Excel files into other applications.

Product Description

Microsoft Excel 2007 Win32 English CD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dumbed down and harder to use, July 28, 2007

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Joshua Nelson "Joshua N" (Waukegan, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office Excel 2007 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

The new ribbon design is supposed to make it easier to learn and use. It may be for some new users but for experienced users, it isn't. This version takes away some critical nuts & bolts customization features and many tasks now take longer to perform. This is not due to the learning curve, it is the inherent nature of the way the ribbon works. Once you are familiar with the program, nothing is faster than the old menu structure. If Microsoft added an option to allow users to choose between menus and ribbons, it would be the best of both worlds, satisfying the needs of both new and experienced users. The new version does not run macros as fast however. My recommedation for existing users: keep Office 2003 for as long as you can and consider going to Open Office when Microsoft no longer supports 2003 (unless they restore the functionality in a newer release of 2007).

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars MS Office "Upgrade" Garbage, April 23, 2009

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Peter A. Ilott "rocket scientist" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Office Excel 2007 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Only a total beginner who has never used a spreadsheet product before, a person who uses a spreadsheet for nothing more than summing a grocery list, or an MS employee or paid shill, could possible find the 2007 version of Office an improvement. It is by far the WORST upgrade of any S/W I have seen in 25 years of using S/W of every kind, including developing many tools myself. Horrible, and another example of MS going for glitz in place of functionality. Remember Bill Gate's "Bob" concept, and how stupid and horrible that was,,,,, this is a modern version of those stupid ideas. Office 2007 is absolutely terrible. Just see what the vast user community has to say about it. I know no one who likes it. Anyone who gives it any kind of a positive review must have a questionable motive. Garbage. If you don't believe me buy this turkey and see for yourself.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrific new interface, January 27, 2009

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NRJ "Navin R Johnson" (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office Excel 2007 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Did MS purposely move everything around to make Excel harder to use? The placements of functions/menu items simply does not make sense to me. I have spend countless hours looking for simple things that are now buried in this completely unintuitive interface. I keep thinking, maybe if I just get used to the new interface, it will start to make sense. Nope. It just is not intuitive at all.

If there's one thing Microsoft has perfected lately, it's how to deliver a terrible product. It really is astonishing. It's almost as if Microsoft has stopped reviewing their ideas with users and they're just flailing about releasing junk.