Microsoft Excel

speaking of broken images ... can you please put your images on the same site as your blog? IT thinks (http://www.isamrad.com/dgainer/) is a personal site and will not display them for me :-(

Hi - I am working on a better solution, but like all good things, it will take a bit of time.

Hi - I am reading through the blog, nice stuff.   But I am wondering if there have been any changes/updates to msquery for pulling data from SQL server databases (not just analysis services).

hi! a friend of mine uses excel intensively and he wishes there was a way to switch any two columns or any two cells (without having to cut-paste-etc-etc). is there a way to do that or if not can you include that feature?

I have some things to comment about Excel 2007 Beta. How can I set/change the default Complex script font? The default is terrible for displaying Thai text. I looked through the Options and then it's only for Latin. I tried to change the theme, but won't apply as a whole.

To clarify my previous comments, it actually the case with textboxes. Somehow it is not using the default settings of Excel. This does NOT happen in previous version of Office.

That you so much for not only fixing the images but also putting them on blogs.msdn

Steve

Hi, I like the potential of the new Excel 2007. But I've been playing with it for 2 days, and my PC just can't handle it. I got XP, 1Gb and a 2.8 MHz Intel processor, but when I import something like 200.000 rows, stretching over 50 columns, it takes 10 minutes to process 'the opening'. Pivoting can take even longer, and actually Excel now frequently freezes up, processing data for 15-30 minutes, and still nothing happens. What does one need to process these numbers in a user friendly way???? (and no, not Access).

David, thank you for fixing up the images. Now please come back and tell us more!

"When it comes to New! And! Improved!, new beats out improved every time."

Most elegantly said Harlan.

I always wondered about Office in general and Excel in particular....If the Excel development team took a look and some of the free and commercial general purpose add-ins available on the internet for Excel viz. ASAP, PUP, Andrews Utilities, Name Manager, Dynorange, Morefunc, DigDB... just to name a few they would automatically get a list of features to include in a new release....
These have been around for quite a while... and yet even with Excel 12 I would still need a host of these addins loaded to fill the gaps in functionality....

Suggestion : Why dont a few of your team members register for the Excel user conference happenning in the UK in a couple of months I think...It would be a great place to meet the Gurus...get some invaluble real feedback..from "real users" (not just your sales guys :-) )

Howdy

Qmark (and everyone), sorry about the lack of new content lately.  I am pretty busy with a few things, not the least of which is working to get beta2 (public) out the door.  I will be back with new stuff soon.

David, no changes to MSQuery

Jan, not sure I understand the question.

Marco, I have a slower PC than that in all regards, and I find PivotTable response time on that amount of data to be sub-second, so I suggest you contact the beta support folks.  See below.

Ti, Marco, for Office2007 beta questions, please either file bugs using the bug reporting tools, or put a post in the beta forums where our support people can follow up with you.

Sam, Harlan, trust me, we spend a lot of time with a lot of "real users", and everything in Excel2007 was a result of their feedback.  I am not sure why you would suggest that new beats improved - if you look at the posts, I think you will see in all areas - size, limits, performance, cond formatting, name management, formulas, tables, pivottables, etc., we have focused on improving a lot of things in almost every area of the product.  The challenge, of course, is that we have many users, and they all want different things.  To borrow a line from Peggy (a colleague from the past), making a version of Excel is like making pizza for 150 million people - hard to give all of them exactly what they want.  We had some areas of focus this time, and we will have another set next time, but what we do in those areas is guided by user requirements.

I am always happy to hear your specific feedback for the purposes of planning future next versions, so feel free to send me an email with your specific requests, or feel free to post them here for others to see.

Thanks!

Dave, Good to luck to you and the team with getting out the next beta.

Can't wait to read all about the new formatting features.