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Discover better ways to analyze data and find solutions by using Microsoft Excel 2000 and its streamlined spreadsheet creation tools, enhanced analysis tools, and powerful Web integration. Whether you are an expert or a novice, Excel will help you work more efficiently, turning your data into answers you can count on.

Excel 2000 provides comprehensive tools to help you create, analyze, and share spreadsheets. Create rich spreadsheets more easily than ever using enhanced formatting features. Analyze your data with charts, PivotTable dynamic views, and graphs. And post your results to the Web for universal viewing and collaboration.

As part of Office 2000, Excel 2000 adopts HTML as its companion file format, so you can easily share data-rich spreadsheets in a Web browser--letting even those who don't have Excel view your data. Further Office integration introduces seamless e-mail and powerful collaboration tools that help your team work together more effectively.

Excel 2000 makes it easier to access vital business information using your organization's intranet, and then analyze that information to help you make informed and timely business decisions. Excel and Office 2000 bring you the power of Office Web components, providing Web viewers the ability to manipulate spreadsheet, chart, and PivotTable data from within their browser for on-the-spot data analysis.

The intelligent features of Excel 2000 not only help you work faster, but also help you create, edit, and format powerful spreadsheets and reports with less effort than ever. ... Read more

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anal

This program is a pain to learn, and not worth the effort.

I suggest Texas Instrument's TI-83 Plus, instead.

Useful features added, little goodies too
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 welcomeimprovement for me.

Installation was (as usual with MS products) abreeze, and I've encountered no glitches yet. Prior Excel data loads justfine, and there's an option to save new work in dual format so you canstill share data with those using prior versions.

I particularly like theincreased functionality and ease of PivotTables, and the PivotChart feature(which lets you display PivotTable data graphically) is just great. Thereare a lot of little improvements, too, such as more chart options, betterweb/HTML integration, format fill when auto-filling a series, and theability to use Excel 2000 as a front-end for OLAP sources (hooray -- nomore using a third-party app to get data for Excel!).

So, having said howmuch I love it, I can also say that you could probably live without theupgrade if you don't *need* these improvements. The rest of the people withwhom I work still do just fine with Excel 97, and probably will for sometime. I do a lot of database and web operations, so the increasedcapabilities will make life easier for me, but probably wouldn't do muchfor them.

Still, there are lots of other little improvements and goodiesin the upgrade, and I highly recommend it. ... Read more

Features

• Exchange information on the Web.
• Take advantage of 3,000 bonus clip art images and the Microsoft Excel 97 Valupack, which contains Microsoft Internet Explorer, additional templates, sounds, animated cursors, and much more.
• Select exactly what you want to print. Simply drag and drop your page breaks-Microsoft Excel automatically resizes data and charts to fit your new page parameters.

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Microsoft Excel is a popular data-analysis program for the Macintosh. Excel 2001 for Mac makes it easy to integrate the strengths of FileMaker--apopular database application for Mac--by allowing you to import data fromFileMaker Pro database files directly into Excel worksheets. Simply drag aFileMaker Pro file from the Finder to Excel, and the Import Wizard helps toselect the database records to import. Once the data is imported, you caneasily use the versatility of Excel to sort, filter, format, analyze, andchart your information. You can even refresh the data inside Excel at anytime to reflect the most recent changes made in FileMaker Pro. Excel 2001,like all Office 2001 for Macintosh applications, features an elegant newinterface in true Macintosh style. The toolbars and icons have beenredesigned and simplified. The program continues to improve on Microsoft'ssupport for key Apple technologies. Excel 2001 anticipates the intent tocreate a list and automatically offers to convert the cells into amanageable, sortable list. Also, a new Total Row command adds a row at theend of a list to calculate such information as the sum or average of thedata in a particular column without having to run a separate feature.And if you're a new spreadsheet user, you'll appreciate the new Mac-onlyCalculator, which displays formulas in Excel 2001. The calculator-styleinterface makes it easier to create simple formulas, link to other cells,and use precompiled functions to help you do your work. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

Microsoft Excel is a popular data-analysis program for the Macintosh. Excel 2001 for Mac makes it easy to integrate the strengths of FileMaker--a popular database application for Mac--by allowing you to import data from FileMaker Pro database files directly into Excel worksheets. Simply drag a FileMaker Pro file from the finder to Excel, and the import wizard helps to select the database records to import. Once the data is imported, you can easily use the versatility of Excel to sort, filter, format, analyze, and chart your information. You can even refresh the data inside Excel at any time to reflect the most recent changes made in FileMaker Pro. Excel 2001, like all Office 2001 for Macintosh applications, features an elegant new interface in true Macintosh style. The toolbars and icons have been redesigned and simplified. The program continues to improve on Microsoft's support for key Apple technologies. Excel 2001 anticipates the intent to create a list and automatically offers to convert the cells into a manageable, sortable list. Also, a new Total Row command adds a row at the end of a list to calculate such information as the sum or average of the data in a particular column without having to run a separate feature. And, if you're a new spreadsheet user, you'll appreciate the new Mac-only Calculator, which displays formulas in Excel 2001. The calculator-style interface makes it easier to create simple formulas, link to other cells, and use precompiled functions to help you do your work. ... Read more

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The MicroSoft programmers forgot their Mac 101 lessons!
This upgrade, from MS Excel 95 to MS Excel 2001, was pretty much a "forced" upgrade for me, thanks to the incompatibility between Excel 95 and my new G4 Titanium Powerbook and its operating system (OS 9.1 "as delivered", presently OS 9.2.2).

Like a good boy, I had been regularly purchasing my MS Excel upgrades for a very long time. How long has it been? It's been so long that my first copy of Excel (1.0, in 1985) was free, because at the time I possessed registered copies of MS Multiplan and MS Chart. That's a long time by anyone's measure. And it extends continuously over more than fifteen years, so you can appreciate that the program is fairly important for me.

With the ever-increasing hegemony of Windows-based business networks, and with the fact that Excel 95 cannot run on a G4 Mac with OS 9.0 or newer, I bit the bullet and purchased this latest upgrade. And, while I've now pretty much climbed its learning curve, the experience hasn't exactly been one that I'd rave about.

Here are a few nits I choose to pick (some small, some not so small):

* Somewhere between Excel 95 and Office 2001, Microsoft programmers seem to have lost track of the fact that Macs have both "Return" and "Enter" keys. (Wintel machines have no "Return" key.) The "Return" key no longer functions as it did, scrolling down one cell in an Excel spreadsheet; it now does precisely the same thing the "Enter" key does (which is limited to whatever one chooses from the "Preferences" menu). Dumb!

* In like fashion, the MS programmers decided to reassign several of the common "Command" key functions (Fill Down, Fill Across, Insert, Delete, Clear, etc.) to the "Control" key, again in some ill-founded effort at "cross-platform"compatibility. (Imagine my surprise when I first went to insert a row or column, only to find that my selection was formatted in italics!) In the process, the ergonomic superiority of the Mac keyboard, requiring less "stretch" effort to activate these keyboard shortcuts, has now been sacrificed to the Bill Gates God of Uniformity.

* After all these years, Microsoft STILL continues to place the Font menu on its own (non-standard) toolbar, not as a Mac-standard menu. Dumb!

* While tools have been added to the toolbox library, the ability to customize toolbars for one's own use has actually been reduced! And the tools don't always load consistently, suggesting some bugginess that requires a Microsoft patch or two, not yet available. And, unlike previous Excel upgrades in my experience, this one appears to provide no additional chart types. Dumb!

* Microsoft appears to use window definitions not in agreement with Apple system standards and requirements. I use Action GoMac (reviewed elsewhere at Amazon) as a navigation utility; it places a toolbar/launch dock at the bottom of the screen (much as Windows does). Excel 2001 fails to recognize this (small) reduction in useable screen height; the default Excel 2001 window spills over into this bottom-screen region. Frustrating!

There are a few (very few, I'm sad to say) gains:

* The application runs acceptably fast. But I think this has as much or more to do with G4 speed and available RAM as it does to "tight" coding by software engineers.

* I've got the cross-platform compatibility that my business-related activities require.

Summary: A "forced" upgrade for G4 Mac users who must use Excel. More steps backward than forward for those of us who prefer Macs but need the cross-platform compatibility. At best, three stars, and then only with the greatest of reluctance.

Bob Zeidler

It worked beautifully!
I needed to upgrade my home computer to telecommute from work. I purchased this software to upgrade a Mac Version Excel 4.0. It worked beautifully! I can now transfer files from my computer to work with no problem, even with the work computers being PC! The features are great, all the newest shortcut buttons, and workbook options. I love it! It is absolutely wonderful!I highly recommend you upgrade to the 2001 version, no matter what format or how old your previous version of Excel ... Read more

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Microsoft Excel X for Mac is the latest update of this useful and feature-rich spreadsheet application. Going one step further to help Mac OS X users improve their productivity, Excel X offers new timesaving tools such as Auto Recover and customizable keyboard shortcuts. This version is compatible with Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, Excel 2001 for Mac, and Excel for Windows 97, 2000, and XP. It is also compatible with FileMaker Pro. Simply drag a FileMaker Pro file from the finder onto the Excel X icon, and the Excel X import wizard helps you select the database records to import.

Auto Recover is a new default feature in Excel X that automatically saves your document every 10 minutes. If you lose a document, for example, from a power outage or system crash, Excel X will proceed to automatically recover all files in reverse save order so that the focus will be on the file that was saved last. Keyboard shortcuts are now customizable in Excel X, letting you set up your keyboard as you are used to when working in other Office for Mac-based applications such as Word X.

Excel X for Mac includes a calculator, a first-for-the-Macintosh feature that enables novice spreadsheet users to discover and understand the concept of formulas in cells. Other features include the ability to create transparent charts with Quartz 2-D drawing technology and a list manager to simplify the chore of managing complex lists of data. ... Read more

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This is an upgrade version. Microsoft Excel X for Mac is the latest update of this useful and feature-rich spreadsheet application. Going one step further to help Mac OS X users improve their productivity, Excel X offers new timesaving tools such as Auto Recover and customizable keyboard shortcuts. This version is compatible with Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, Excel 2001 for Mac, and Excel for Windows 97, 2000, and XP. It is also compatible with FileMaker Pro. Simply drag a FileMaker Pro file from the finder onto the Excel X icon, and the Excel X import wizard helps you select the database records to import.

Auto Recover is a new default feature in Excel X that automatically saves your document every 10 minutes. If you lose a document, for example, from a power outage or system crash, Excel X will proceed to automatically recover all files in reverse save order so that the focus will be on the file that was saved last. Keyboard shortcuts are now customizable in Excel X, letting you set up your keyboard as you are used to when working in other Office for Mac-based applications such as Word X.

Excel X for Mac includes a calculator, a first-for-the-Macintosh feature that enables novice spreadsheet users to discover and understand the concept of formulas in cells. Other features include the ability to create transparent charts with Quartz 2-D drawing technology and a list manager to simplify the chore of managing complex lists of data. ... Read more

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MS Excel for Mac OS X upgrade
Microsoft's strength is in the department of "bells and whistles".
This makes their products somewhat complicatedto learn and use and takes up lots of memory. I did like some features, for example, the notes for a fieldshowing up in a little balloon that can be viewed without having to open a new window, as in an earlier version.
I had some difficulties with the installation but was talked through the procedure by a very patient tech.
In order to install any one item of the "Office" suite you must install many Megabytes ofother stuff that you don't need, but you can trash much of that later.
Customizing the toolbar is a rather difficult and tedious process, especially when you cannot see the function of a tool ,unless you are in themode in which you cannot trash it.
But overall, once you get it all set up, it does what it is supposed to do , even though the average userwill never use most of the many functions. ... Read more

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