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Summary: Useful features added, little goodies too
Review: I won't beat around the bush: I love Excel, and I've loved it ever since I began using it years ago (after having used VisiCalc on an Osborne, what's not to like about Excel?). The Excel 2000 upgrade is a very welcome improvement for me.Installation was (as usual with MS products) a breeze, and I've encountered no glitches yet. Prior Excel data loads just fine, and there's an option to save new work in dual format so you can still share data with those using prior versions. I particularly like the increased functionality and ease of PivotTables, and the PivotChart feature (which lets you display PivotTable data graphically) is just great. There are a lot of little improvements, too, such as more chart options, better web/HTML integration, format fill when auto-filling a series, and the ability to use Excel 2000 as a front-end for OLAP sources (hooray -- no more using a third-party app to get data for Excel!). So, having said how much I love it, I can also say that you could probably live without the upgrade if you don't *need* these improvements. The rest of the people with whom I work still do just fine with Excel 97, and probably will for some time. I do a lot of database and web operations, so the increased capabilities will make life easier for me, but probably wouldn't do much for them. Still, there are lots of other little improvements and goodies in the upgrade, and I highly recommend it.
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