Thanks for all the responses. I've buried the idea and will try a full upgrade via a tech net donwload. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Houseman" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:06:31 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: Excel Upgrade Advice
If you were doing I.T. before 1997, you'd know that Excel changed file formats in an a backward-incompatible way with every new version up to and including the '97 release. That was true for Word and PPT as well. For those of us who knew that pattern, it was unusual that there was no file format change for the 2000 and 2003 versions. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Excel Upgrade Advice On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Sherry Abercrombie<[email protected]> wrote: > There was probably the same type of tool for 2003 > 2000 sharing. There didn't need to be. Prior to Excel 2007, all versions of Excel used a fairly similar file format. Older versions couldn't use features from newer versions, but they could open the files. > This person is probably not going to like Excel 2007....I don't like it and > I went from Office 2003 to 2007, so I can't imagine what it would be like to > go from 2000 to 2007, yikes that's crazy. It shouldn't be that much different. Prior to Excel 2007, all versions of Excel used a fairly similar user interface. Are we seeing the pattern yet? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
