Excel in Office 2008

T

Tom

Is the Excel version in Office 2008 for Home & Student the "full"
Excel? Or is it similar to MSWorks, that is not all formula's are
supported.

TIA
 
J

John

Tom said:
Is the Excel version in Office 2008 for Home & Student the "full"
Excel? Or is it similar to MSWorks, that is not all formula's are
supported.

TIA
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It is now more like Works thanks to the removal of VBA and the Analysis
Toolpack.
 
J

JE McGimpsey

Tom said:
Is the Excel version in Office 2008 for Home & Student the "full"
Excel? Or is it similar to MSWorks, that is not all formula's are
supported.
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The XL in H&S is identical to XL in the full version.

All functions (including those that used to be in the Analysis Toolpak
Add-in) are present.
 
J

JE McGimpsey

Or is it similar to MSWorks, that is not all formula's are
supported.
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It is now more like Works thanks to the removal of VBA and the Analysis
Toolpack.[/QUOTE]

Not quite. All formulas/functions that used to be in the Analysis
Toolpak Add-in are now built-in functions in XL.

The only things missing that the ATP provided are wizards (and a very
poor Random Number Generator), which can be replicated using worksheet
functions. It's not as convenient, but no functional capability has been
lost, and in some cases, the built-in functions provide more accuracy
than the ATP did.

VBA on the other hand...
 
J

John

JE McGimpsey said:
The XL in H&S is identical to XL in the full version.

All functions (including those that used to be in the Analysis Toolpak
Add-in) are present.
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Where are Anova? Where are Histogram? Where are the t functions. Only a
FEW have been moved over to regular functions in Excel. VERY FEW!!!
 
J

JE McGimpsey

John said:
Where are Anova? Where are Histogram? Where are the t functions. Only a
FEW have been moved over to regular functions in Excel. VERY FEW!!!
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Those aren't functions (of which there are about three dozen in the ATP,
now built into XL08). You're referring to the ATP wizards, which, for
the most part, use built-in XL functions to calculate their results.

For methods to accomplish the same thing as the ATP wizards, see

http://www.coventry.ac.uk/ec/~nhunt/oatbran/
 

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