For a standard spreadsheet, both versions can do what you want. 2003 looks very different and some people found 2007 difficult to adapt to, but once they got used to it, they found the fundamentals were not very different. So it is really personal choice. People who are used to 2003, might stick with it while people completely new to Excel would go for 2007.
I have included a link from Microsoft on how to do this.
The total number of columns in versions of Excel up to Excel 2003 is 256 columns. The total number of columns in Microsoft Excel 2007 and onwards is 16384. The total number of rows up to Excel 2003 is 65536. From Excel 2007 it is 1048576.
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Not ordinarily. You need to use a converter to do it. Another option is that if you have Excel 2007, you could save it in the older format. Google docs will open 2007 files, so that is another way of getting to the content of the spreadsheet. You could then cut and paste it into 2003.
See related links for diagrams showing parts of the Excel screen for both Excel 2003 and Excel 2007.
I believe the only Microsoft program used to create spreadsheets is Microsoft Excel.
You can open a 2007 Excel spreadsheet with Excel 2003 if you save the file in Excel 2007 using "Save As" and select the 2003 compatibility mode.
It ia a update of Microsoft Excel 2003. A spreadsheet program that will also create graphs and solve equations
Excel 2007 documents won't open directly in Excel 2003. There are a few options though. There may be converters that you can download from the Microsoft website to do it. In 2007, you can save the document as a 2003 file. Another thing to do is if you have a Gmail account, e-mail to that account and you can open it in Google Documents, and copy and paste it into Excel 2003. It is possible that you will lose some data that way, though that is not always the case.
No. Excel is a spreadsheet application. Powerpoint is a presentation program that is part of Microsoft Office.
Excel 2007 does use the .xlsx extension for its workbooks.
.xlsx is the file format used in Microsoft Office Excel 2007. It is NOT backwards compatible (i.e. Excel 2003 and earlier versions cannot open it). The file is XML based and smaller in size than the .xls format. It is possible to open, edit, and save a .xls file in Excel 2007 for backward compatibility.