Microsoft Excel 2002 .
The comprehensive tools in Microsoft Excel 2002 make it easy to create powerful spreadsheets and work with others to review and analyze them. Excel 2002 incorporates the productivity and collaboration innovations of Office XP, such as Smart Tags and Task Panes, empowering financial professionals and everyday users alike to access, organize and analyze critical business data.
Excel 2002 Features:- Error-checking smart tag
- Function argument tooltips
- Watch window
- Speech: easily dictate, navigate, and provide other commands using a microphone
- Formula-auditing toolbar
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Excel w/VBA is very slow
Comment: Excxel is my all time favorite program; it can do wonders. But there is a major problem with the new version. While running a VBA macro program that I have used daily for over five years, it is SLOWER on a 2 GHz machine with XP that with a 300 MHz machine and WIN98. The reason is excess security that can not be turned off like in Excel97. At first it was ok, a little faster than the old machine and then I suppose a critcal upgeade with XP has now slowed the program to a crawl. Microsoft has both a security problem and a hangup about security. But running a virus scan on my old and proven macros everytime they run is not the answer. If you are not using any macros then the new Excel may be OK. A better choice would be to find an old version of the program.
Customer Rating: Summary: Good, but not $$$ better than OpenOffice.org
Comment: Of course, Excel is a lovely product, though whether you need the upgrade is highly questionable. I found this pretty much just MS trying to create a need they can charge for. Especially since you can open and create Excel spreadsheets for free without actually buying Excel... or order StarOffice 6.0 here on Amazon.
Excel 2002 is fine, but like a $6000 umbrella stand for your dog, not a lot of people actually need it.
Customer Rating: Summary: microsoft excel 2002
Comment: I found excel 2002 to have features that made it much easier than the earlier versions that we have at work. for a spread sheet i find it very versitile
Customer Rating: Summary: Excel 2002 is Excellent
Comment: This is a great product. The only problem is that I am getting addicted to it. I find myself spending a bit too much time not only writing macros but shading and coloring the borders, the background, the foreground, and the text. And you can use this tool in more than just accounting. My primary use, for example, constists in summarizing data on American politics and doing very basic analysis on it. You do not need a fancy social science software to do that. Also I use it for keeping track of my students' scores and analyzing various neat grade distribution patterns. I did not own any previous versions of Excel, so I cannot speak to how this version compares to its predecessors. But it runs without a glitch, and I enjoy working with it
Customer Rating: Summary: Thanks! Excel!
Comment: I think this is the best spreadsheet programme out there on the market. It's easy to use, it's a life saver when it comes to mathematical problems, I solved percentage, multiplication, additions etc... in this programme in a breeze. Just remember when you are writing a formular in a cell remember use this:
eg. =sum(b1+a5)it all works by entering the formula properly. There are no major changes in Excel 2002, you can do most of the everyday task in Excel 97 and 2000. But overall I think its a great application compared to Quattro Pro and Lotus 123.
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