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April 2006 - Posts

Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:02 PM

Wanted: Excel Programmer Writers in Redmond

Today we have a “guest post” from our Documentation Team – the folks that bring you help, content on the web, etc. They have a few open positions they are looking to fill. Enjoy. I want to relay information from our documentation group today (more specifically
Posted by David Gainer | 4 Comments
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:56 PM

One More Great-Looking Documents Post – Shapes

A few weeks ago I posted a series of articles about great-looking documents. I have had a few questions about shapes since I wrote those posts, so I thought I would write a quick post on changes to shapes in Excel 2007 (and Office 2007 really – anything
Posted by David Gainer | 15 Comments
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:57 PM

Charting V – PivotCharts

Whenever we talk to users about PivotCharts, the first request we hear is that they behave more like regular charts. In previous versions, PivotCharts had very limited layout and formatting options. In addition, if you refreshed the PivotTable that the
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Monday, April 17, 2006 1:15 PM

Charting IV – Charts in PowerPoint and Word

One thing we know is that many of the charts that folks created in Excel end up in PowerPoint presentations or Word documents (I think the statistic is that 50% of all charts in PowerPoint presentations originate from Excel. While users work in Excel
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Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:43 PM

Charting III – Tabs and Templates

In the previous two charting posts, I wrote about how you can make a professional chart with four simple choices – chart type, chart layout, chart style, and document theme. As useful as we hope that is, we know that some users will want to tweak and
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:12 PM

Charting II – Professional charts, made easy (continued) + Excel 2007 keyboard access model …

Keyboard Access Today I want to start with a link to Jensen Harris' UI blog, where Jensen has put up a post that describes the Office 2007 keyboard model . I am personally a big keyboard user, and I know the same is true for a lot of Excel users, so this
Posted by David Gainer | 7 Comments
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:49 AM

Charting I – Professional charts, made easy

A few posts ago when I described the work we did in the area of “great looking documents” , I mentioned charting. I am going to spend the next week or two covering charting in detail. For this first two posts, I want to cover how we have used the ribbon
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Monday, April 10, 2006 11:14 AM

Headers and Footers in Excel 2007

In the post last week on Page Layout view , some of you may have noticed the words “Click to add header” in a few of the screenshots, which was a hint that there have been some changes in headers and footers in Excel 2007. I am going to review those changes,
Posted by David Gainer | 19 Comments
Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:22 AM

SpreadsheetML News

BioIT Alliance I haven’t spent a lot of time on the new Excel file formats, since Brian Jones is writing a blog on that subject , but I saw a story today on Brian's blog that was interesting, so I thought I would share it with you. Specifically, he posted
Posted by David Gainer | 19 Comments
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 3:11 PM

Page Layout View

A few posts back when I provided an overview of our work in the area of “better looking documents”, I mentioned that two of our goals were to “Make it easy to see what your work will look like printed as you create it “ and “Make it easier to maintain
Posted by David Gainer | 14 Comments
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 2:41 PM

A Small Piece Of Pleasant News For Those Of Us That Write Code In Office, Plus Some More Screenshots …

Any readers that have written VB using the VBA editor in Microsoft Office has probably noticed that historically, their mouse scroll wheel (or equivalent) does not work in the code window. I just noticed in recent builds of Office 2007 that it does. I
Posted by David Gainer | 11 Comments
 
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