Our company is finally going to Office 365! We have been using Office 2000 for years.

What is your "top 5" list of cool\useful\great improvements made to Excel since Excel 2000?   I want to get our users excited about Excel!

TIA,

edm2

• Changed type George.Zhao CHNMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 5 hours 49 minutes ago discussion

Hi,

I found the following features a great addition to make the step to next version of Excel:

• File size (much smaller)
• New and improved functions such as SUMIFS, COUNTIFS etc.
• Conditional Formatting (wow do you have something to choose from!)
• The new and improved Name Manager
• The ribbon (that's very subjective, takes some getting used to)
• Possibilities to connect to other data sources OData, web etc
• couple of more rows to fill (over 1 million...)
• Couple of more colomns to use (about 16000)

So my input was always, what would you like to do with Excel that you could not do before? Chances are that it is possible with this version!

Could luck with the migration and my guess would be that everyone will be enthousiastic about it!

Maurice

Maurice,

That a great answer. I'm going to leave the question open a bit longer to see if anyone else jumps in on the topic.

edm2

Hi edm2,

It's a similar topic with this thread, Please see the overview article:

What's new in Excel 2013

In my view, Power BI is a great feature of Excel 2013 and you will be interested in it.

https://support.office.com/en-sg/article/Power-BI---Overview-and-Learning-02730e00-5c8c-4fe4-9d77-46b955b71467?ui=en-US&rs=en-SG&ad=SG

If you have any further question, here is a place where we can learn, entertain and discuss with each other topics we find interesting.

Regards,

George Zhao
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