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1.3. Try ItThat's the grand vision, but even if you don't intend to install SharePoint or build a web-based interface to your business processes, you can still make use of the new Excel features. Table 1-1 is a guide to the new Excel features, where they are located in this book, and how to use them. Note: Is Excel 2003 a big deal? On the surface, not much has changed there are a handful of new objects and the user interface of Excel is largely the same. Underneath that are fundamental shifts implied by the new features: Lists, XML, web services, .NET, and InfoPath build a framework for entirely new ways to exchange data with Excel.
The following sections provide quick tutorials on using the new Excel features together. There is more detail in the chapters, including how the new approaches compare to features from earlier versions of Excel, but let's not get bogged down in those details here. This is a great place to get up and running quickly, as well as get a top-level view of what's new. Note: If you get stuck trying to follow along, open the sample ch01.xls to see how I did it. |
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