March 2006 - Posts
Yesterday we looked at Table Styles . Today, I wanted to revisit PivotTable Styles (see a post here where I introduced PivotTable styles a few months ago – you might want to re-read that before proceeding). This post will be a bit shorter, because most
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Last post we looked at Cell Styles – both the changes we made to the feature as well as the set of Cell Styles that will ship in the Office public beta. Today, I wanted to revisit another (completely new) set of styles that are part of Excel 2007 – Table
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A few posts ago, I presented an overview of the work we are doing in the area of great looking documents . Over the next few posts, I want to walk through a number of the improvements we have made to styles. Today, let’s cover Cell Styles. “Cell Styles”
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For those of you interested in programming Excel Services, check out this blog . One of the developers (Shahar) working on Excel Services team has posted an article that walks through the details of programmatically working with a workbook using Excel
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Last time, we looked at what a Document Theme (“theme”) was, some of the places it shows up in the Excel UI, and a few examples of why themes are useful. Today I wanted to cover how to change, create, and modify themes, how to tweak themes, and themes
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In the last post, I presented an overview of the work we are doing in the area of “great looking documents”. Over the next few posts, I want to walk through a number of the improvements in a bit more detail. Today, I am going to introduce the idea of
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As many of you have noticed, all the images disappeared from the Excel 2007 blog sometime last night (Pacific Time). We hope to have them back soon. In the meantime, you might want to check out Jensen's latest post which discusses an example of a change
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One of the themes we focused on with Office 2007 was “great looking documents”. For the next half-dozen articles, I am going to explain what that means for Excel, and some of the cross-application features that users will see in Office 2007. Way back
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While we are talking about the new user interface, I thought I would mention another feature the user interface team has added that I think will prove to be very helpful to a lot of users. The basic idea is to take tooltips, which are useful little devices,
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The Final Look For most of the history of this blog, I have been showing you screenshots produced using “Beta 1” builds of Excel 2007 and making comments along the lines of “not final UI”. Today, the UI became a lot more final. What do I mean? This morning
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One of the things the ribbon afforded us a chance to do was to make existing Excel functionality (meaning functionality already available in current versions of Excel) easier to find and quicker to use. Today I thought I would walk through a few (but
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First, to those of you that have already sent in files or sent in links to places we can download your files, thanks very much. We will work them into performance testing asap. We really do appreciate your help. Second, to all of those of you that posted
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