More Room, More Speed, More Choices

Some of the changes in Office Excel 2007 will be most important for power users who create, update, modify, and report on mega worksheets that demand the utmost in processing power and speed. Here’s an overview of some of the changes that affect the way Office Excel 2007 manages and supports large, complex worksheets.

If you were maxxing out the row and column limits of Office Excel 2003, you’ll be glad to know that the Office Excel 2007 worksheet has been greatly enlarged. According to David Gainer, Group Program Manager for Microsoft Office Excel, “Specifically, the Excel 12 grid will be 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns. That’s 1,500 percent more rows and 6,30 percent more columns than in Excel 2003, and ...

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