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March 2008 - Posts

Friday, March 28, 2008 10:55 AM

Shadows on Charts and Cells in Excel 2007

Today's author, Helen Hosein, a Program Manager on the Excel team. Certain shadows created in Excel 2003 look different Excel 2007. In particular, you might notice that your old cell shadows, as well as shadows on things like Chart Titles might look a
Posted by Joseph Chirilov | 7 Comments
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Attachment(s): CellShadows.xlam
Monday, March 24, 2008 4:11 PM

Setting up Excel Services to Refresh Workbooks When Opened.

Today's author, Pej Javaheri, a Product Manager on the Excel Services team, talks about one of the more common configuration questions we hear about from customers. One of the challenges in sharing Excel workbooks is ensuring that the right people see
Posted by Joseph Chirilov | 3 Comments
Monday, March 10, 2008 9:20 AM

SharePoint 2008 Conference Recap

The BI Blog does a quick recap of the SharePoint 2008 Conference that just passed with particular emphasis on the popularity of the Excel Services session: Dan Parish, from the Microsoft Excel Services team, presented how you can extend the capabilities
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:41 PM

Unusual (but cool!) Uses of Excel

Many of you who have been using Excel for a long time have most likely seen some of the creative, interesting, and rather unusual uses of Excel that people have conjured up. I'm talking about things like writing the Pac-Man game completely in Excel ,
Posted by Joseph Chirilov | 15 Comments
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:45 AM

Handling Workbook Dependencies using Excel Services

Today's author, Sanjay Kulkarni, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team. We have heard from several customers about scenarios where they have workbook dependencies. So the output of one workbook is used in other workbooks for calculations. The dependencies
Posted by Joseph Chirilov | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): WorkbookDependencies.zip
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:48 PM

Example file for PivotTable / Data Validation Trick

Recently I posted an article discussing how PivotTables can be used on Excel Services to mimick the Data Validation feature . The author, Dany Hoter, sent me a copy of the file he used in the example screen shots and I never got around to posting it for
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