I work on a business modelling team, using mainly Excel 2007. If it’s complicated and it gets done in Excel, we’ve done it. Which is why I’m nervous about my team’s plan to upgrade our OS to Windows 7. I wanted to know if there are any known issues when migrating from XP to Windows 7, but staying on the same version of Excel. I know that it seems like it shouldn’t matter, but I’m looking for an answer from someone who has done this with fairly intricate Excel models.
I work on a business modelling team, using mainly Excel 2007. If it’s complicated
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I don’t believe you will get a list of known issues as there could be a multitude of potential issues that are specific to particular libraries and how your code interacts with that library.
If you’re using identical Excel 2007 versions (32-bit/64-bit) and code is restricted to only Excel’s object model you should generally be ok (although charting I’ve always found a little suspect on 2007).
If you’re using external libraries set in references then I would assume further development will be required – however, it may not!
If development is required, it could involve something simple such as early binding to specific libraries or downloading specific libraries if they’re still available. You may have to re-write some code to handle version changes. For example, if you use library MSXML then a machine may have one or more of MSXML3.0 – 6.0 depending upon OS/Office installed.
Microsoft do list object model changes Link but I don’t think this is applicable in your case. Unfortunately, I don’t know of any standard resources for external libraries. You will have to test.