what's excel 2002/2003?

[tweety]

Hi,
I am a a novice on Excel and is looking to purchase an excel formulas book to improve my excel skill. I seacrh amazon and come across with a book call "Excel 2002 Formulas".

I am a bit confuse since i never heard of office 2002 and office 2003 (I am a student from australia). My question is can i use this book "Excel 2002 Formulas or Excel 2003 Formulas ". if i am using office XP

cheers,
christy

 

[parry]

Hi Tweety, this is the perfect one for you because Excel2002 is the XP version. Getting a later version book normally doesnt matter providing it has a note of whats new to the version throughout the book. There will be some things in ver 2003 not available in 2002 for example.

 

[tweety]

thanks for yr reply
so is office 2003 = office XP
if it is i think i will purchase the later version Excel 2003 Formulas


Thanks in advance

 

[parry]

thanks for yr reply
so is office 2003 = office XP
if it is i think i will purchase the later version Excel 2003 Formulas


Thanks in advance

Hi Tweety, no Office 2002 = XP.

Is this by John Walkenbach? I have his Excel 2002 Formulas book which is very good and it has notes throughout indicating whether a particular feature is new or not so you dont get caught if you have an earlier version of Excel so I presume the 2003 version of the book is the same.

 

[Ken Puls]

Hi Tweety,

John Walkenbach's books are excellent. I have both the 2002 Formulas and the 2002 Power Programming with VBA. He has a great writing style which is easy to follow.

Just an FYI though, based on Walkenbach's review of Excel 2003 http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/xl2003.htm it really doesn't look like any? new formulas have been added between 2002 (XP) and 2003. Even if there were though, you can find out when you move up to 2003 by checking the help for "what's new to 2003"

Personally, I'd go with whichever (John Walkenbach) book is cheaper...

HTH,