If you use Excel 2003 the number of several years, you may realize that the use of more recent version of Excel (2007,2010,2013 or Excel 2016) a person or organization is increasing. You may have even received their workbooks Excel can not open an Excel workbook. Therefore, you might consider future upgrades. Major changes occurred in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 between. Therefore, we discuss some of the major changes between the two versions of Excel.
1, the number of rows and columns
One of the major developed Excel Excel 2007 and later versions of Excel now allows more columns and rows. For many users, this may not be a problem - after all, 65,536-line Excel 2003 and offers 256 allows you to handle large amounts of data. However, for users who will have to deal with large amounts of data is not uncommon! Therefore, for some users, the latest version of Excel can handle 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns of data is a big advantage.
2, conditional formatting
Another major improvement in 2007 Excel conditional formatting. Many Excel 2003 users need to be able to use three or more conditional formats, but in Excel 2003 is not possible. However, in Excel 2007 (and later versions of Excel), you can specify any number of conditions, each has a different format.
And color bar data icons set in exemplary Excel 2007
Excel 2007 and later versions of Excel conditional formatting can even be used to satisfy a plurality of conditions of the cell. For example, if the value of ≤10 cell designated in bold text, and the value of the cell specified as ≥10 red text, will find value in the cell 10 is equal to the text in bold and red, respectively.
In addition, Excel 2007 and later versions of Excel also offers other types of conditional formatting. If your boss likes to see beautiful charts and graphical display of many colors, they'll love the new data fields you use Excel, the color and icon set to make a spreadsheet! These features will be applied to color or symbol range of cells, depending on the value of the remaining cells within the selected range with respect to each cell. For example, the image (upper right) shows the applied three conditional formatting data fields, and gradation icon sets, each column comprising a number from 1-10. As a final reward, Excel 2007 introduces the ability to use conditional formatting with a PivotTable. First of all, Excel 2007 conditional formatting interface may seem complicated, but it takes some time to become familiar with this feature is worth it!
Filtering and sorting by color
in Excel 2003, cell values can only perform filtering and sorting. However, the latest version of Excel, you can filter and sort by color. May be the font color, it can also be a cell background color.
3, nested functions restrict
Another useful improvement in 2007 Excel is the nesting level can perform. Excel 2003 only allows seven nested function, and Excel 2007 allows up to 64 nesting. Of course, even the most dedicated Excel users may not need more nesting levels!
4, resizable formula bar
Excel formula bar extension 2007. In Excel 2003, if the cell contains a formula or a longer text strings, then select the cell, view the formula bar will prevent some of your spreadsheet, it may be inconvenient. However, Microsoft to resolve this problem by introducing in 2007 Excel resizable formula bar, the content is consistent with the size of the cells in that column. As shown in FIG.
5, new features
Excel 2007 includes many new built-in functions that can help you make a spreadsheet smoother and more efficient. These features include IFERROR function, SUMIFS function as well as new statistical AVERAGEIF, AVERAGEIFS and COUNTIFS function.
A later version of Excel has further added to the list of built-in functions. For more information about the latest new features, please see page about the new features in Excel Excel 2013 2010 new features, Excel 2016 and Excel 2019 New Features new features.
6, increased memory, and faster calculation
if the function is applied to large data sets due to slow things slowed the Excel worksheet in 2003, you might benefit from the latest versions of Excel to increase memory management. It was introduced in Excel 2007, when the memory management increased from 1 GB 2 GB.