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Friday, May 26, 2006 4:14 PM

Multi-Threaded Calculation Tip and File Format Converters

I have received a few emails from folks that have downloaded the beta and tried out multi-threaded calculation – thanks, it was great to hear from you. One thing I wanted to point out is that for most workbooks, you will see the maximum improvement in
Posted by David Gainer | 8 Comments
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:11 PM

Tools|Options – The Rest

A few days ago, I outlined some changes that had been made to Tools|Options. Today, I wanted to run through how the options were organized for those of you that are curious, and point out one other feature I forgot to mention Monday. Since we already
Posted by David Gainer | 24 Comments
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:36 AM

Give us your thoughts on chart and table styles

In previous posts, I have talked about new features we have added around chart styles and table styles . These features, as you may or may not recall, are designed to make it easy to apply good-looking formatting and to create consistent-looking documents.
Posted by David Gainer | 20 Comments
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:11 AM

Office 2007 Public Beta Available

Starting today, those of you that are interested can download the public Office 2007 Beta from the Office preview site using this link: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/getthebeta.mspx . For those that do download and check things out, please
Posted by David Gainer | 15 Comments
Monday, May 22, 2006 11:10 AM

Whatever happened to Tools|Options?

In the course of writing this blog, between comments and direct emails, I would estimate that I have fielded over 1,000 questions. Of those, only one had anything to do with Tools|Options, which I found to be a surprisingly low number, given how often
Posted by David Gainer | 12 Comments
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:00 PM

Word Blogging

Short post tonight. Several of my recent posts have been written in Word. The beta2 version of Word 2007 includes blog support, which means you can write in Word and output blog-compatible HTML. Word supports publishing text and pictures to many common
Posted by David Gainer | 6 Comments
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:44 AM

SmartArt Graphics with Style

Here is the second guest post from Matthew Kotler, a lead program manager on the SmartArt team. In the last post, I presented an overview of SmartArt Graphics. In this post, I'll show how to take the basic SmartArt Graphic that you have created and format
Posted by David Gainer | 26 Comments
Monday, May 15, 2006 10:56 AM

Introducing SmartArt Graphics

A few weeks ago a few folks sent me email asking about what the new shapes features meant for things like org charts and other diagrams. Today we have the answer in the form of the first of two guest posts from Matthew Kotler, a lead program manager on
Posted by David Gainer | 12 Comments
Friday, May 12, 2006 4:40 PM

And now for something completely different – regulatory compliance and spreadsheets

Spreadsheets today support critical business processes, from financial reporting and analysis to research and development. As a result, they have become an important enterprise resource that must be included when addressing compliance requirements. Some
Posted by David Gainer | 13 Comments
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:00 PM

A bit more on Icon Sets – answers to Biff’s and Harlan’s questions

Since a few of the comments that were made on the last post were more easily answered with pictures, I thought I would just go ahead and make a new post out of it. (I have answered the other comments in the comments section of the previous post.) Biff
Posted by David Gainer | 13 Comments
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:52 PM

Conditional Formatting Trick 2 – How to get an icon in some cells, but not all cells

A few months ago, I described the new features we have added to Excel 2007 in the area of conditional formatting. One of the new formats we added is called a “icon set” … check out this earlier post for a refresher, but the basic idea is that Excel draws
Posted by David Gainer | 11 Comments
Friday, May 05, 2006 1:00 PM

Excel 2007 investments in UDFs #3: client/server solution using a core library

In the previous post I showed how an existing set of UDFs, defined in an Excel addin, can be used with Excel Services by wrapping them with a managed UDF assembly. Some companies develop calculation libraries in a modular way. They want to use their library
Posted by David Gainer | 3 Comments
Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:25 PM

Excel 2007 investments in UDFs #2: Existing UDFs

Here is the second post from Danny Khen, a program manager on the Excel Services team. In the previous post I explained about the investments we made around UDFs in Excel 2007 and in the Excel Services. I also showed how Excel Services use a different
Posted by David Gainer | 3 Comments
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 6:14 AM

Excel 2007 investments in UDFs #1

For the next few posts, we have a “guest post” from Danny Khen, a program manager on the Excel Services team. Danny is going to talk about UDFs in Excel and Excel Services. Enjoy. UDFs are user-defined worksheet functions – custom functions that you create
Posted by David Gainer | 18 Comments
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:52 PM

Crystal Ball® User Conference + Excel Services Video

I am spending some of this week at the Crystal Ball ® User Conference , where I had the good fortune to be able to present an overview of Excel 2007 to the conference attendees. I want to thank the folks as Decisioneering for the opportunity, and I would
Posted by David Gainer | 2 Comments
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