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January 2008 - Posts

Clarification on VBA Support
Following MacWorld earlier this week, there has been some inaccurate information circulating online regarding VBA support in Office for Windows. While it’s true that VBA isn't supported in the latest version of Office for the Mac and the VBA licensing Read More...
Easier Access to Office Binary Format Documentation
Brian Jones writes in his blog about some new developments with the Microsoft Office binary file formats. In summary, Microsoft will make the binary format documentation available directly from its web site, removing any intermediate steps that were previously Read More...
New Excel Viewer Available for Download
We are pleased to announce that a new version of the Excel Viewer is now available for download . To quote the download site: " With Excel Viewer, you can open, view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don't have Excel installed. You can also copy Read More...
Personalized Data in Excel Services
Today's author: Steve Tullis, a program manager who works on the Excel Services team. I've received a number of questions over the past months from customers wanting to deploy Excel Spreadsheets to SharePoint, such that when a user opens the page, s/he Read More...
The 2008 Office Developers Conference
A bit of older news but worth mentioning again for those that might be interested. The Office Developers Conference (ODC) is being held this year in San Jose, California and will take place February 10-13. To quote the site: "ODC 2008 is the premier event Read More...
Replacing OWC Reporting with Excel Services
Today's author: John Campbell, a program manager who works on the Excel Services teams. Replacing OWC Reporting with Excel Services As a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, I often field emails from people who have a thin reporting solution that Read More...
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