Excel 2007 Miracles Made Easy (eBook)

Unfortunately, Microsoft no longer loves the menu bar. In fact, they have completely abandonedthe menu bar and the toolbars in favor of something called the Ribbon. Why would they fix something that was not broken? Well, perhaps the menu system actually was broken. Excel pros knew where to find everything on the menu, but it was pretty hopeless for a person new to Excel to ever navigate to Edit - Fill - Justify to learn that you could have Excel behave a little bit like a word processor. The chances of them finding Data - Import External Data - New Web Query to learn that their dashboards could put data from a table directly on a website were bleak. In fact, I've heard that the Office team will visit customers and ask what new features the customer would like in Excel. Most of the time, someone asks for something that was added 10 years ago. The conclusion: There is a lot of powerful functionality in Excel that customers have not been able to discover. Instead of adding new features, Microsoft could instead make it easier for everyone to fi nd the features that already exist. (In reality, Excel 2007 offers many fantastic new features, plus a new menu system that will help customers find previously existing features. Excel 2007 is the best new version of Excel since Excel 97.)