How are you currently dealing with compatibility issues of Excel 2003 / 2007?

Fimodo speaks to five financial modelling experts to understand how they have (and continue to) deal with compatability issues.
Rickard Warnelid
Corality
www.corality.com The issue of non-compatibility of Excel 2003 / 2007 is not generally a problem internally within financial modelling teams, unless of course dif
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