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Friday, March 31, 2006 4:11 PM

PivotTable Styles

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
Posted by David Gainer | 13 Comments
Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:05 PM

But wait, there’s more (styles) … Table Styles in Excel 2007

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
Posted by David Gainer | 6 Comments
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:36 PM

Cell Styles - More Usable, better defaults

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”
Posted by David Gainer | 4 Comments
Monday, March 27, 2006 11:42 PM

Excel Services coding example

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
Posted by David Gainer | 6 Comments
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Friday, March 24, 2006 8:45 PM

Document Themes Part II

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
Posted by David Gainer | 8 Comments
Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:15 PM

Document Themes Part I

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
Posted by David Gainer | 11 Comments
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 3:20 PM

Broken Images + Beta Feedback

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
Posted by David Gainer | 12 Comments
Monday, March 13, 2006 11:24 AM

Excel 2007 documents – easy on the eyes

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
Posted by David Gainer | 18 Comments
Friday, March 10, 2006 10:17 PM

Super Tooltips and Collapsing The Ribbon

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,
Posted by David Gainer | 12 Comments
Thursday, March 09, 2006 1:08 PM

Excel 2007 – The Final Look, and more rows and columns

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
Posted by David Gainer | 21 Comments
Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:05 AM

Making features easier to find and quicker to use

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
Posted by David Gainer | 17 Comments
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:23 PM

A clarification on how to send in calculation-intensive files

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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