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Microsoft Excel is a popular data-analysis program for the Macintosh. Excel 2001 for Mac makes it easy to integrate the strengths of FileMaker--a popular database application for Mac--by allowing you to import data from FileMaker Pro database files directly into Excel worksheets. Simply drag a FileMaker Pro file from the finder to Excel, and the import wizard helps to select the database records to import. Once the data is imported, you can easily use the versatility of Excel to sort, filter, format, analyze, and chart your information. You can even refresh the data inside Excel at any time to reflect the most recent changes made in FileMaker Pro. Excel 2001, like all Office 2001 for Macintosh applications, features an elegant new interface in true Macintosh style. The toolbars and icons have been redesigned and simplified. The program continues to improve on Microsoft's support for key Apple technologies. Excel 2001 anticipates the intent to create a list and automatically offers to convert the cells into a manageable, sortable list. Also, a new Total Row command adds a row at the end of a list to calculate such information as the sum or average of the data in a particular column without having to run a separate feature. And, if you're a new spreadsheet user, you'll appreciate the new Mac-only Calculator, which displays formulas in Excel 2001. The calculator-style interface makes it easier to create simple formulas, link to other cells, and use precompiled functions to help you do your work. ... Read more

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The MS programmers forgot their Mac 101 lessons!
This upgrade, from MS Excel 95 to MS Excel 2001, was pretty much a "forced" upgrade for me, thanks to the incompatibility between Excel 95 and my new G4 Titanium Powerbook and its operating system (OS 9.1 "as delivered", presently OS 9.2.2).

Like a good boy, I had been regularly purchasing my MS Excel upgrades for a very long time. How long has it been? It's been so long that my first copy of Excel (1.0, in 1985) was free, because at the time I possessed registered copies of MS Multiplan and MS Chart. That's a long time by anyone's measure. And it extends continuously over more than fifteen years, so you can appreciate that the program is fairly important for me.

With the ever-increasing hegemony of Windows-based business networks, and with the fact that Excel 95 cannot run on a G4 Mac with OS 9.0 or newer, I bit the bullet and purchased this latest upgrade. And, while I've now pretty much climbed its learning curve, the experience hasn't exactly been one that I'd rave about.

Here are a few nits I choose to pick (some small, some not so small):

* Somewhere between Excel 95 and Office 2001, Microsoft programmers seem to have lost track of the fact that Macs have both "Return" and "Enter" keys. (Wintel machines have no "Return" key.) The "Return" key no longer functions as it did, scrolling down one cell in an Excel spreadsheet; it now does precisely the same thing the "Enter" key does (which is limited to whatever one chooses from the "Preferences" menu). Dumb!

* In like fashion, the MS programmers decided to reassign several of the common "Command" key functions (Fill Down, Fill Across, Insert, Delete, Clear, etc.) to the "Control" key, again in some ill-founded effort at "cross-platform"compatibility. (Imagine my surprise when I first went to insert a row or column, only to find that my selection was formatted in italics!) In the process, the ergonomic superiority of the Mac keyboard, requiring less "stretch" effort to activate these keyboard shortcuts, has now been sacrificed to the Bill Gates God of Uniformity.

* After all these years, Microsoft STILL continues to place the Font menu on its own (non-standard) toolbar, not as a Mac-standard menu. Dumb!

* While tools have been added to the toolbox library, the ability to customize toolbars for one's own use has actually been reduced! And the tools don't always load consistently, suggesting some bugginess that requires a Microsoft patch or two, not yet available. And, unlike previous Excel upgrades in my experience, this one appears to provide no additional chart types. Dumb!

* Microsoft appears to use window definitions not in agreement with Apple system standards and requirements. I use Action GoMac (reviewed elsewhere at Amazon) as a navigation utility; it places a toolbar/launch dock at the bottom of the screen (much as Windows does). Excel 2001 fails to recognize this (small) reduction in useable screen height; the default Excel 2001 window spills over into this bottom-screen region. Frustrating!

There are a few (very few, I'm sad to say) gains:

* The application runs acceptably fast. But I think this has as much or more to do with G4 speed and available RAM as it does to "tight" coding by software engineers.

* I've got the cross-platform compatibility that my business-related activities require.

Summary: A "forced" upgrade for G4 Mac users who must use Excel. More steps backward than forward for those of us who prefer Macs but need the cross-platform compatibility. At best, three stars, and then only with the greatest of reluctance.

It worked beautifully!
I needed to upgrade my home computer to telecommute from work. I purchased this software to upgrade a Mac Version Excel 4.0. It worked beautifully! I can now transfer files from my computer to work with no problem, even with the work computers being PC! The features are great, all the newest shortcut buttons, and workbook options. I love it! It is absolutely wonderful!I highly recommend you upgrade to the 2001 version, no matter what format or how old your previous version of Excel ... Read more

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Do more, with less, with Exel-lent Marketing Formulas, an Excel add-in with 55 functions and formulas that solve your sales and marketing problems. Functions cover all aspects of marketing and sales, from market research to sales and distribution. And general utilities functions help you with simple tasks that Excel complicates, like getting a result when dividing by zero. Of course, many functions tackle more complex problems, like using Bass diffusion curves to estimate new product sales. No more searching online or through books to find the formula you need. Exel-lent Marketing Formulas puts them all in your Excel worksheets. You'll also discover new approaches to solving marketing problems ... Read more

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