TOP TOOLS 2008
Excel

Excel
, spreadsheet software is a part of the
Microsoft Office suite
| Website |
office.microsoft.com/excel |
| Cost |
Commercial |
| Free trial |
Yes |
| Availability |
Download |
|
Platform |
Windows/Vista |
|
2007 ranking |
22= |
|
2008 ranking |
50= |
Comments from those who selected Excel as one of
their Top 100 Tools in 2008
- "As PPT,
but for the more advanced tutor. With excel, fully
interactive formative tests can be delivered quickly
and cheaply to those that need them"
David Sugden
Comments from those who selected Excel as one of
their Top 100 Tools in 2007
General comments about Office
-
"Unlike many of my colleagues I have
never been a Microsoft hater. I use Office so much that
it has to be on the list. I really like the 07 suite
with its new interface and wouldn't swap it for
any cheaper
alternative. I
particularly like
the RSS feeds
facility in Outlook."
Clive
Shepherd
-
MS Office XP and Outlook 2003.
Grouped together because they are so interconnected.
These tools are chosen for me by my employer, but I
have no complaints - they do the job and I think
Excel is the finest application Microsoft ever
produced."
Karyn Romeis
- "Whilst I'm not much of a PowerPointer, I use
Word
and Excel extensively. I
particularly like Word's
Outliner; and there are
many situations in which
some of Excel's
easy-to-learn "advanced"
features - like filters,
conditional formatting
and the like, save a lot
of time and effort."
Seb Schmoller
- "I can’t imagine my work without Word, Excel and
PowerPoint"
Jorge
Goncalves
- " For creating. The basic tools
to help conceive, plan, design, build learning products.
Have been the standard for me for 10 years"
David Meaney
- "For writing, collating, preparing presentations,
tracking, reporting – online and offline – I still
haven’t found a way to avoid these tools"