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Excel
Excel hasnt added too many new features beyond the same sort of task pane benefits we found in Word and the 2003 suites overarching support for XML. But with Excels data-centric focus, the XML support makes for an especially good fit. Excel now enables users to select from ranges of data to create lists that can be managed and worked on independently of other data on a worksheet. The lists we created in our test were marked off with a thick blue border, and each column within the list had Excels Autofilter feature enabled by default. We could expand or reduce the area included in our list by dragging the border over the new range of cells we desired.
Powerpoint
Powerpoint 2003 adds a cd packager option, with which we could burn a copy of our test presentation along with a new version of Microsofts PowerPoint viewer onto a CD for distribution. This works fine for sending presentations to other Windows users, but, in what seems to be a refrain with Office, it doesnt cut it for cross- platform distribution.
