Excel Versions

This book was developed with Excel 2003 Professional Edition and is designed to be compatible with Excel 2000 and later. If a feature is not available in Excel 2000, I make an effort to note that, but if you are developing for a specific version of Excel, please check Appendix B for specific version compatibility and read Chapter 6 for information on developing design requirements and testing for compatibility.

If you are developing with .NET, I strongly recommend that you target Excel 2003 or later. The code shown in this book is written in the Visual Basic Applications Edition, but parallel .NET samples are provided online (see the next section).

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