Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - Whither Analysis ToolPak?

Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - Whither Analysis ToolPak? http://www.officeformac.com/ms/blog When MacBU shipped Excel 2004, we included a wonderful add-in for doing data analysis, called Analysis ToolPak (ATP). ATP offers 19 different statistical and math functions, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_variance">analysis of variance</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_regression">linear regression</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram">histograms</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-test">t-tests</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-test">Z-tests</a>. These functions are incredibly useful for folks who need to perform statistical operations on their data - customers in science, operations, marketing, higher education, and so on.   <center><img alt="" src="http://www.officeformac.com/blogassets/atp_2004_2.jpg" /> Figure 1 - Analysis ToolPak in Excel 2004</center>   Unfortunately, Analysis ToolPak didn't ship with Excel 2008; like <a href="http://www.officeformac.com/blog/Solver-For-Excel-2008-Is-Available">Solver</a>, ATP is based on Visual Basic, and, when VB was removed from Office 2008, ATP was removed, too. Since we shipped Office 2008, we've been hearing from customers that they need good data analysis options that work with Excel - and wanted to know what we're planning to do about it. I'm here today to announce that we absolutely hear you, and we are working on a solution. The Mac Excel team has been hard at work on a solid, Office 2008 data analysis solution for the past few months. Today, we are very close - recent builds are very promising - and we feel confident enough in our progress to share the news with you. Once we have something that's ready for the general public, we will be posting the news here. The plan is make our solution available as a free download over the Web. When we've got news, we'll post it here first. Promise. Watch this space for details. (PS - If you're an Excel 2004 user and want to experiment with ATP, you can turn it on by going to your "Tools" menu, selecting "Add-Ins..." and checking the box next to "Analysis ToolPak". Click OK, and, the next time you visit the "Tools" menu, you'll see a menu item called "Data Analysis..." That's what you want. Go crazy!)   Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:04:31 GMT Web Crossing(r) Unix-v6.4 built Jan 14 2010 18:50:13 (source:1372 2010-01-14 15:39:31 -0800)/Unix-6.4 (http://webcrossing.com/) http://backend.userland.com/rss