BPC 7 : Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 Conflict

Hi Experts,
               I have created a template in BPC 7 MS on my computer which has Excel 2003 version.
But when I try that template on another computer which has Excel 2007. The format (in the format Range) did'nt seem to work or it has diff effect on Excel 2007.
               Is there really a conflict between them?? and cannot have different Microsoft Office version??  Or is there An Add-on that we have to Install so that Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 can be used at the same Time??
Thanks,
Bennie Jay

Sorin:
Situation
I also have the same issue with Excel formatting in Excel 2007, and I found a work-around specifically to my issue.
At the format section's CRITERIA, I have one entry: HEADING="New Budget" in the Column direction, apply certain color and number format to the cells of that column. However, I used Excel function CONCATENATE("HEADING=",EVDES("FINANCE",CATEGORY)) to come out with HEADING="New Budget", rather than just typing the string value.
With the above exercise, in Excel 2003 the format would apply no problem, but in Excel 2007, the entire formatting went wild and broke. After I dropped CONCATENATE() and just typed in HEADING="New Budget", the formatting applied OK in 2007.
Data
We are currently on BPC 5.1 SP5
The original report was built in Excel 2003
Question
Is there a setting in Excel that would allow me or bypass the restriction to use Excel functions to come out with CRITERIA definition?

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