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My employer struck a deal with Microsoft to allow us to purchase Office '07 for 20$. Right now I've been making use of open office and a copy of office '03 that I've had for a bit.

Is there any substantial change that would warrant an upgrade?

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Yes. Buy it. There's a huge UI revamp that makes it not a piece of 80s shit.

Fuck, buy ME one!

Every major useful feature is implemented as a button along the ribbon instead of having to memorize a shitload of formulas or dig through endless menus and makes things vastly easier. It is well worth the upgrade.

I use O2K7 frequently - but the one annoying issue is that if you have complex Excel charts, they take forever to render.

phongn wrote:I use O2K7 frequently - but the one annoying issue is that if you have complex Excel charts, they take forever to render.

How complex do you mean? I don't think anyone I work with does much beyond simple arithmetic, but I don't actually know how crazy-go-nuts you can get with Excel.

Stark wrote:How complex do you mean? I don't think anyone I work with does much beyond simple arithmetic, but I don't actually know how crazy-go-nuts you can get with Excel.

Try generating an X-Y line graph with hundreds or thousands of data points, and feel the pain.

Wow - that sounds like a serious problem. A are they going to fix it?

Stark wrote:Wow - that sounds like a serious problem. A are they going to fix it?

I'm not sure, really - and it might be an issue related to Vista (GDI isn't accelerated), but it's really, really annoying.

phongn wrote:

Stark wrote:How complex do you mean? I don't think anyone I work with does much beyond simple arithmetic, but I don't actually know how crazy-go-nuts you can get with Excel.

Try generating an X-Y line graph with hundreds or thousands of data points, and feel the pain.

I've only noticed lag when spreadsheets get upwards of 50-100mb+ for sheets with thousands of lines of data and macros galore. Most of the sheets I've dealt with rarely go above 50mb though, so it's normally not an issue.

Zed Snardbody wrote:My employer struck a deal with Microsoft to allow us to purchase Office '07 for 20$. Right now I've been making use of open office and a copy of office '03 that I've had for a bit.

Is there any substantial change that would warrant an upgrade?

We have it at the office. I have Lotus Symphony installed on the PC I don't use so I can avoid it as much as possible.