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  • Blog Post: Looking at alternatives to Excel

    Excel is probably one of the most important apps used in organisations today. We spend a whole lot of time researching, designing and optimising Excel for business needs. But Excel isn’t the only spreadsheet app out there – there are plenty of others to choose from. How do they compare? Check out the...
  • Blog Post: The long tail of Excel users

    One of the great things about my job is that I get to see how Office is used across a wide variety of organisations, industries and users. Nobody uses Office in quite the same way – but then, that’s one of the reasons Office is so popular, so customisable and so feature rich. But I have never ever seen...
  • Blog Post: Cool Download: Open XML Theme Builder

      Codeplex has lots of interesting tools. Here is one I stumbled on today - This is a much easier way of making Office 2007 themes and styles than manually doing it through the Word or PowerPoint interface: The Open XML Theme Builder is a tool that helps with the creation of theme files (*.thmx...
  • Blog Post: Excel 2007 Display bug fixed

    Unless you have been on a deserted tropical island, you would have heard about the Excel 2007 bug whereby =850*77.1 would display 100000 instead of 65535. The issue occured when displaying numbers in the ranges of 65534.99999999995 to 65535 and 65535.99999999995 to 65536. Well, it is fixed, available...
  • Blog Post: SharePoint and Office versions... huh?

    I hear a lot of questions about which applications are included in which versions of Office. So, rather than rehash what is elsewhere, I'll point you to the Microsoft Office 2007 Suites page on Office Online. Each suite has a different set of products included, targeted at different types of users.....
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