Microsoft Excel 2016

Tallaght

Is it easy to use and what is the best price as part of the office package ?
I am looking to use a football stats spreadsheet every day and it needs 2016 apparently.

Debbie_Savard

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Office-Professional-Digital-License/dp/B01HC4LRY4/

I've bought licenses from cairnquay before and they've worked fine

stragglebod

There aren't too many features in Excel that are unique to 2016. Why exactly does it need 2016?

Try it in Excel Online first.

If you genuinely do need Excel 2016, then first of all I'd suggest whoever created the spreadsheet is an idiot.

Do you use Excel at work? If so you may be able to take advantage of the MS home use program to get Office for £10.
https://www.microsofthup.com/hupuk/home.aspx?country_id=GB

Owain_Moneysaver

Does it actually need Excel? Will it work on openoffice or libreoffice?

Neil_Jones

The only reason I can think of for a requirement for Excel 2016 is the use of Visual Basic for Applications or Macro support. While the concept of these do exist in Openoffice/Libreoffice, they may need adapting for these packages.

Of course if its just a case of doing something like Team A played 6 games, won 3, drew 2 and lost 1 (to total 11 points), that in itself hardly needs Excel. Sorting the table in the right order based on points, then goal difference, for, against, etc - in itself doesn't particularly need Excel either.

tronator

this one seems to work in Libreoffice just fine


http://www.excely.com/football/2018-fifa-world-cup-schedule.shtml

Heedtheadvice

I agree with Neil and Owain.
Thersvare ti es ehen Excel will do the job and other speadsheet progs handle thing differently enough that they will not work correctly on the same file. It is not all that common though for most simple uses.
There are sometimes some of the more esoteric functions that fail and as already posted more oftem VBA automation tasks.


Most VBA works accross Excel versions but there are sometimes slight differences in the object models requiring some rewrite between versions. That is even less common.


As suggested already it might well be worth finding out if the free apps are suitable even if just by diwnloading and trying them. Any problems should soon show themselves!