August 2006 - Posts
Today Eric Patterson finishes his series of posts on compatibility. For my last post about compatibility, I would like to drill down into more detail on Excel’s PivotTable feature. In Excel 2007, we have invested a lot of our time improving PivotTables.
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Today Eric Patterson continues his discussion on Compatibility. Last week I described the features that we have deprecated for Excel 2007 . Today I want to expand on that list to include the features related to Charting in Office 2007. There has been
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Today Eric Patterson returns with a few more guest posts on Compatibility. Thus far the discussion about compatibility has been focused on how new features in Excel 2007 are handled when saving files to previous versions or when working in Compatibility
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Over the course of this blog, I think I have covered to some degree every tab in Excel 2007 except for the Add-Ins tab. Accordingly, today, I wanted to present some information on the Add-Ins tab. It turns out that there is already some good information
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Today we have a second guest post from Sander Viegers, a user experience designer who worked on many aspects of Excel 2007. Sander’s previous post is located here . In my previous guest post (thanks for all the feedback) I talked about the holistic design
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We are interested in getting some user feedback on how conditional formatting (Data Bars specifically – see here for some info on Data Bars) should behave when the sheet direction is set to right-to-left (RTL). (Background for those not familiar with
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In the Office UI blog, Jensen recently authored a post describing the improvements that had been made to the "recently opened documents list" in Office 2007. This is something that I was going to cover this month, but now I don’t have to, because Jensen
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Today we have another guest post from Sam Radakovitz (Sam brought you a number of posts on the Trust Centre as well as an Excel 2007 game ). Today, Sam talks a bit about Forms Controls and an example of the sort of thing you can do with them. Note – this
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Eric is out for a few days, so there is going to be a temporary break in the compatibility posts (they will resume sometime next week). In the meantime, I thought I would quickly review a few tabs that I have not talked about yet and potentially one or
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Today we have the third guest post from Eric Patterson, Excel Program Manager. Eric is writing about compatibility in Excel 2007. Conditional Formatting is one of the areas where we have made a lot of improvements in for Excel 2007. Dave has already described
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Today we have the second guest post from Eric Patterson, Excel Program Manager. Eric is writing about compatibility in Excel 2007. As introduced in the last post, the Compatibility Checker scans your workbook for issues that are not supported by earlier
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Guest writer: Eric Patterson. Over the next several posts, Eric, one of the members of the Excel Program Management team, is going to discuss backwards compatibility in Excel 2007. I hope readers find this interesting. Over the next several posts I will
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In the past I have written about Office Online (you can get to Office Online using Help|Office Online in any current version of Excel). One of the great things that Office Online provides is a wide variety of templates that can help users get going more
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Today we have the fifth and final guest post from Sam Radakovitz, Excel Program Manager. Sam is writing about the Trust Centre, a new feature for Office 2007. To properly secure Excel, the Data Connection security has been moved into the new Trust Center
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Today we have the fourth guest post from Sam Radakovitz, Excel Program Manager. Sam is writing about the Trust Centre, a new feature for Office 2007. While we have talked at length about reducing the impact of security decisions on end customers, and
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