Latest Excel Program

rockbabe

Can anyone help me?
I am looking to purchase the latest excel program. Does anyone know where it is available and at the best price?

Thanks for your help
RB

flyer

why buy excel? https://www.openoffice.org is free and compatible with excel

rockbabe

flyer wrote:

why buy excel? https://www.openoffice.org is free and compatible with excel

I need the latest vesion of excel for a pricing engine I use provided by one of the big insurers, I have the office 2000 version at present. What exactly does open office do? I am not sure that it will work because the engine I need to use is designed especially to work on excel. However my version of excel is not sufficient, I need the latest one.
Thanks for your help anyway
RB

dell_2

rockbabe wrote:

I need the latest vesion of excel for a pricing engine I use provided by one of the big insurers, I have the office 2000 version at present. What exactly does open office do? I am not sure that it will work because the engine I need to use is designed especially to work on excel. However my version of excel is not sufficient, I need the latest one.
Thanks for your help anyway
RB

Suspect it's 2003

flyer

open office is the same as MS Office ( a lot of people say it is better) and it is FREE. If you have Office, I think you can upgrade easily enough, just don't know where I'm afraid.

esuhl

I suspect the pricing engine you want to use is programmed in VBA. I don't think OpenOffice has VBA capabilities, unfortunately - the only thing that lets it down, really.

Chippy_Minton

You can't buy Excel 2003 separately; it comes as part of Office 2003.

If you qualify, the cheapest is probably the Microsoft Office Student & Teacher Edition 2003 - Amazon £79.99.

As you already have Office 2000, you qualify for Microsoft Office 2003 (Upgrade Version) - ebuyer £144.33 - the cheapest I've found, but shop around. This Microsoft page has a document showing the products which qualify for the upgrade.