Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Microsoft Excel

The team blog for Microsoft Excel and Excel Services.

February 2008 - Posts

Chart Templates
Today's author, Ben Rampson, a Program Manager on the Excel team. Customers who author charts in presentations and reports often spend a significant amount of effort modifying their charts to get them looking just the way they want. While the new Chart Read More...
A PivotTable Trick That Brings Data Validation to Excel Services
Today's author: Dany Hoter, a product planner who works on the Excel Services team. Excel has a feature called Data Validation that controls the possible values a user might enter into a cell or a range of cells. As you can see there are many options Read More...
New Blog Focused on BI
If you are passionate about business intelligence (BI), you may be interested to know that a new Microsoft blog has started that is all about BI. It is aptly named The BI Blog . One interesting recent post talks about how Microsoft was recently placed Read More...
Common Questions Around Excel 2007 OLAP PivotTables
Today's author: Allan Folting, a program manager who works on the Excel team. I have gotten lots of questions from customers around specific functionality in Microsoft Excel 2007 PivotTables that is missing when connected to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Read More...
New Excel Blog in Town
Gabhan Berry, a Program Manager on the Excel team, has just started up a new blog devoted to Excel programming . To quote his first blog post : Starting from today, I'll be blogging about all things related to programming with Excel. From addins to automation; Read More...
Page view tracker