Over the last few weeks I've been making numerous upgrades and improvements to my eBay spreadsheet and today I'm glad to finally announce the release of version 1.5. Here's what's new in this version.

Support for older versions of Excel
Prior to version 1.5 I had an OpenOffice.org version and an Excel 2007 version. That means the spreadsheet could be opened in either OpenOffice.org (any platform) or Excel 2007 (PC) or Excel 2008 (Mac). However, I received numerous e-mails from sellers who told me they couldn't open the spreadsheet because they were still using Excel 97-2003. These older versions of Excel have technical limitations and couldn't understand my long advanced formulas. In version 1.5, I re-wrote a lot of the formulas using a different method and now the spreadsheet will work perfectly in any version of Excel. It will also now work on any spreadsheet program on any type of computer that can open an .XLS file (for instance, Numbers for the Mac). When you download the spreadsheet you will now be given 3 versions:

	OpenOffice.org Version (.ODS)
	Excel 2007 Version (.XLSX)
	Excel 97-2003 Version (.XLS)

You can choose to use whichever version you feel most comfortable with and delete the other two.
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