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The team blog for Microsoft Excel and Excel Services.

October 2008 - Posts

Excel Web Application Announced at PDC
During today’s Professional Development Conference keynote, Ray Ozzie made an exciting announcement about a new way to view, edit, and collaborate with Excel. If you weren’t able to watch the keynote, feel free to check out the following links: PDC Keynote Read More...
Creating a Master-Detail View in Excel
Today's author, Dan Battagin, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about joining two tables in Excel (a.k.a. returning multiple rows for VLOOKUP). Today, we'll take a look at the VLOOKUP function, and work out a way to get around its major drawback Read More...
Don't forget about the "A" in "VBA"!
Today's author, Stephane Viot, a Program Manager in the Office Global Experience Platform team, reflects on how leveraging application features could help speed up the development of your VBA solutions, while improving their performance. Often -but hopefully Read More...
Using Office Data Connection files (.odc) and the DataConnections Web Part in SharePoint to Specify External Data Connections in Newly Created Excel Workbooks.
Today's author, Christian Stich, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, discusses how to enable users to quickly and easily create workbooks using external data connections specified in server based data connection files. Overview Excel and Excel Read More...
What is the fastest way to scan a large range in Excel?
Today's author, Dany Hoter, a Product Planner on the Excel team, talks about some performance characteristics he recently discovered using various methods to manipulate large ranges using VBA. Problem description You have a large range in Excel with data. Read More...
Building a Basic, Understandable Sudoku Solver Using Excel Iterative Calculation - Part 2/2
Today's author, Charlie Ellis, continues discussing the spreadsheet he built to solve Sudoku puzzles. In my previous post , I walked through a number of formulas for setting up the valid values and solution board. In this post we'll cover using iteration Read More...
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