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The team blog for Microsoft Excel and Excel Services.

August 2007 - Posts

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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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