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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:50 AM

Excel Services Books

Today’s author: Eran Megiddo, the program manager who led the Excel Services 2007 effort. Eran is going to briefly talk about a few books that the Excel Services team wrote about the product. I wanted to let folks know about two new Excel Services books
Posted by David Gainer | 1 Comments
Friday, August 24, 2007 2:06 PM

Combining Chart Types, Adding a Second Axis

Today’s author: Katherine Fifer , an intern on the Excel team. Katherine is just wrapping up a summer of fantastic work, and today she is going to discuss how to create a combo chart in Excel 2007. Often it is useful to create charts which compare different
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:29 PM

Working With Excel's XML-Based File Formats

Some readers have expressed interest in working with and better understanding SpreadsheetML, part of the Open XML Formats recently standardized by Ecma International (I received a string of about a dozen emails in the last week or two asking how to do
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:02 PM

Christian Stich on Excel Services: Financial option valuation implemented with Monte Carlo simulation using multithreaded User Defined Functions (UDFs)

Today’s author: Christian Stich, a program manager on the Excel Services team who likes to combine his finance and engineering backgrounds. Christian is going to talk about building a multithreaded UDF for Monte Carlo simulations and using it for options
Posted by David Gainer | 8 Comments
Tuesday, August 07, 2007 11:05 AM

Sam Radakovitz on Dynamic Ribbon Galleries

Today’s author: Sam Radakovitz, a program manager on the Excel team that enjoys creating VBA applications in Excel. When I went to create my first Excel 2007 Ribbon application, I found it a bit difficult to get the right RibbonX and VBA functions setup
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:13 PM

Sam Radakovitz on date pickers

Today’s author: Sam Radakovitz, a program manager on the Excel team that enjoys creating VBA applications in Excel. Back in early 2005, Excel 2007 was under development, the Backstreet Boys released a new album, and I took a weekend out to create a date
Posted by David Gainer | 21 Comments
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:19 PM

Now The Excel Team Blog

Over the past few months, there has not been a lot of activity on this blog. Today, we have made a slight change to the blog (specifically, turning it into the Official Excel/Excel Services blog). That means a couple of things. First, that activity is
Posted by David Gainer | 5 Comments
 
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