| New Excel Interface | | Improved Database Features |
 | Why did Microsoft make the changes? | | | Sorting |
| What's in? | | | Filtering |
| |  | Ribbon | | | Automatic AutoFiltering |
| | | Quick Access Toolbar | | Table Enhancements |
| | | Dialog Box Launcher | | | Calculated columns |
| | | Microsoft Office Button | | | Total rows |
| | | New Status Bar | | | Tables styles |
| What's Out? | | Chart Enhancements |
| | | Menu Bar | | | Visual chart pickers |
| | | Toolbars | | | Chart templates |
| New File Formats and Layouts | | | Using OfficeArt shapes |
| New formats | | | Sharing charts with other applications |
| Working with documents from previous versions of Excel | | Pivot Tables |
| Saving a document as PDF or XPS | | | New easier interface |
| New Page Layout view | | | Plus and Minus indicators |
| Conditional Formatting | | | Pivot charts |
| Creating conditional formatting | | | PivotTable style and layout |
| Applying conditional formatting | | | |
| Formula Writing Enhancements | | | |
| Resizable formula bar | | | |
| Function AutoComplete | | | |
| Named ranges | | | |
