Microsoft has learned that Excel users love charts, so the new version includes some show-stoppers formerly available from third-party add-ins—Pareto charts, sunbursts, and waterfall charts that show the effects of cumulative changes in a series of floating blocks like in the Super Mario Bros. video games. Expert Excel users know the laborious trick of building a waterfall chart by making the lower part of a block invisible, but Microsoft's one-click version is a lot more elegant.
Microsoft promises to add new chart styles every month for Office 365 setup subscribers. Meanwhile, Excel gets a built-in Forecasting feature that creates forecast charts based on existing data, and gee-whiz graphic features like an animated transformation of one chart type to another when you decide to use a different charting style.
PowerPoint hasn't had any major changes beyond the enhanced collaboration features added everywhere in the suite, but a Microsoft rep hinted that some big new PowerPoint features will be coming to Office 365 setup subscribers in the relatively near future. Meanwhile, PowerPoint slightly lags behind Apple's Key note at iTunes Store in graphic razzle-dazzle, but only slightly, and not enough to make anyone choose Apple's iWork over Microsoft Office as their preferred office suite.
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