How do you guys like it? I like 2010 better, I think the theme is terrible and I really can't believe that they did not incorporate a Windows 7, Vista, XP theme for it... it looks terrible.
I DO NOT LIKE EXCEL 2013!! Whatever idiot thought up adding the "cool" graphic stuff should be fired..... And his bosses too. It's Excel, not a toy and it should never be thought of needing to be cool. Its hands down the most useful piece of software ever created. Don't screw it up.
I love it so far. Running win8. Haven't tried it on win7.
I DO NOT LIKE EXCEL 2013!! Whatever idiot thought up adding the "cool" graphic stuff should be fired..... And his bosses too. It's Excel, not a toy and it should never be thought of needing to be cool. Its hands down the most useful piece of software ever created. Don't screw it up.
Have they fixed the windowing in Excel or is it still a stupid MDI application?
Not sure, what is it? I use it daily on multiple machines and truly loath Microsoft for making it pretty and neat....
The fact that all of the docs are stuck within a parent window instead of being their own separate ones like Word. For some reason MS thinks you would never want to have two Excel windows open at the same time and it's maddening when you need to compare spreadsheets with multiple monitors.
The fact that all of the docs are stuck within a parent window instead of being their own separate ones like Word. For some reason MS thinks you would never want to have two Excel windows open at the same time and it's maddening when you need to compare spreadsheets with multiple monitors.
The fact that all of the docs are stuck within a parent window instead of being their own separate ones like Word. For some reason MS thinks you would never want to have two Excel windows open at the same time and it's maddening when you need to compare spreadsheets with multiple monitors.
The fact that all of the docs are stuck within a parent window instead of being their own separate ones like Word. For some reason MS thinks you would never want to have two Excel windows open at the same time and it's maddening when you need to compare spreadsheets with multiple monitors.
That drove me insane with Excel 2010, I haven't used Excel 2013 much yet but I will give it a try tomorrow at work to see if it has finally been fixed.
Ummm, guys, just because you're unable to figure out the basic functionality that has existed for ages, doesn't mean it's Excel's fault. Some research might help.
Just hold down the SHIFT key when opening a file to force Excel to open the file in a new instance. Not sure if this used to work in XP, but even then there was a trick: open your first file in Excel. Then navigate to All Programs > MS Office > Excel and force open a new instance. Then open your second file from the new instance's File menu.
Oh, and the reason why they have kept the functionality intact is because there is wide userbase out there which's already used to this behavior. There are other use cases though that still warrant the presence of this feature: imagine copying/pasting across sheets when you have multiple instances of Excel running... the experience is a lot more error prone than manually navigating to the respective sheet using your mouse or another keyboard shortcut (crazies like me are used to ALT+TAB'ing).
That's a stupid workaround and there's absolutely no reason for Excel to still be defaulting to MDI. Doing it that way is more error prone because it goes against how virtually every other app on Windows works. One should be able to use ALT+TAB to switch between documents instead of having to use CTRL+TAB within Excel.