Excel 2000 offers a variety of new features designed to help you collaborate and share information through the Web and to perform more extensive analysis of your data. This version of Excel is also easier to manage and use than ever before.

· Web-enabled collaboration and information sharing. Excel 2000 allows you to create and share rich Web documents with the same Office tools you use to create printed documents. This means that your Excel 2000 content is universally viewable by anyone with a browser.

· Drag and drop. Excel 2000 also supports the drag and drop of table data from a Web browser directly into Excel.

· HTML as companion file format. Excel 2000 can save to and read from HTML files with high fidelity. HTML is now on the same level as the Excel file format (.xls).

· New date formats. Custom date entry behavior and static date function behavior give you more options for working with dates, and Excel 2000 is Year 2000 compliant.

· Enhanced Web queries. A new dialog in Excel 2000 makes it easy for anyone to bring data from the Web directly into Excel for tracking or analysis.

· List AutoFill. Excel 2000 automatically extends formatting and formulas in lists, simplifying this common task and helping you work more efficiently.

· See-Through Selection. Instead of the inverse video selection that hides formatting and sometimes text, the See-Through Selection in Excel 2000 lightly shades selected cells so that you can make changes and see the results without un-selecting the cells.

· Euro currency support. Excel 2000 supports the new Euro currency, both the symbol and the three-letter ISO code.