July 2006 - Posts
Today we have the third guest post from Sam Radakovitz, Excel Program Manager. Sam is writing about the Trust Centre, a new feature for Office 2007. Our goal is to have secured and reasonable default settings to allow customers get most work done while
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Today we have the second guest post from Sam Radakovitz, Excel Program Manager. Sam is writing about the Trust Centre, a new feature for Office 2007. Prior to Office 2007 the Office security model has had solid success in helping combat things like macro
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Guest writer: Sam Radakovitz. Over the next several posts, Sam Radakovitz, one of the members of the Excel Program Management team, is going to explain a new feature in Office 2007 called the “Trust Centre”. While Sam will be discussing the Trust Centre
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There were some questions in the comments in the last few days about working with the Ribbon minimized (which I do a lot, but not exclusively). In a nice piece of chance timing, Jensen wrote a short piece (UI blog) on how the Ribbon has been improved
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To this point in the blog, I haven't talked too much about the file formats that Excel 2007 uses, since Brian Jones has been covering the new Office Open XML format pretty well in his blog. Today I thought I'd give an overview of the three main formats
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Yesterday I wrote about some work I was doing with Tables recently. Today I want to do the same for conditional formatting – specifically, using colour scales. (For a refresher, or for those that are new to this blog, you can read up on changes to conditional
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A few weeks ago when I asked readers what they wanted to see in the way of content over the next few months, a few people suggested some discussion about everyday use. Accordingly, I am going to write today about some things I was doing with Tables in
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Since I have been writing this blog, I have periodically been asked “what’s up with the Office Web Components”. Today, I wanted to post the official “roadmap” from the Office Web Components team. Here you go: As some of you have recently noticed, the
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Some XLL add-ins may gain a performance boost if they take into account the worksheet context that calls them. For example, if a function is called from a sheet that is not currently active, and the rest of the workbook does not have dependencies on the
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Today we have a guest post from Sander Viegers, a user experience designer who worked on many aspects of Excel 2007. Hi, my name is Sander Viegers. I am user experience designer in the Office Design Group. I’ve had the pleasure of working with the Excel
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Today we have a guest post from Kevin Boske, a program manager on the Office Programmability team. Kevin discusses a feature that will make it much easier for developers to add their own task panes to Office, so while the example presented here is in
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First , I would like to thank everyone that provided feedback on our PivotTable questions – there were many helpful comments. I will see if I can get a member of the PivotTable team to post a reply sometime this week. Second , last week Microsoft announced
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