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The team blog for Microsoft Excel and Excel Services.

November 2009 - Posts

Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 Feature Support
Excel Services does a good job of rendering Excel spreadsheets with a high degree of fidelity. In other words, what you see in Excel is what you will see in Excel Services. Excel, however, is incredibly feature rich, comprising features added over decades Read More...
Deploying Office Web Apps in the Enterprise
Following on the heels of the Office 2010 beta availability announcement, the Office Web Apps blog has a new post discussing deploying office web apps in the enterprise . Have a read if you're looking to test drive the beta version of Office Web Apps Read More...
Announcing Office 2010 and PowerPivot Beta Availability
From the Office 2010 Engineering blog : Today is an exciting day! At PDC we announced the availability of the public betas of Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps for business customers. If you’d Read More...
Easily manage defined names in Microsoft Excel
Today’s author is Jan Karel Pieterse, an Excel MVP. You can find more useful tips from Jan Karel on his website: http://www.jkp-ads.com/ . This post informs you about Name Manager, a free utility that helps you manage defined names in your workbooks. Read More...
Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 Administration Improvements
Thanks to John Campbell for putting together this post. Ongoing management is key to any successful server product’s deployment. It can be challenging to figure out the right initial combination of settings, and to know how to further change those settings Read More...
Find Combinations
Today’s author is Bill Seddon from Lyquidity Solutions, who informs us about a free tool for Excel users that allows you to find combinations of numbers that total to a selected value. For more information and a video, see http://www.lyquidity.com/findcombinations Read More...
Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 Dashboard Improvements
Thanks to Dan Parish for putting together this post. One of the great things about Excel Services is the Excel Web Access (EWA) web part. This web part allows you to render entire workbooks, or just portions of a workbook (for example a chart or a Table) Read More...
New Posts From One of the Principal Developers Behind Excel Services
One of our most senior developers on Excel Services, Shahar Prish, is busy writing posts in his blog on the new programmability features in the 2010 version of Excel Services. The first set of posts talk about REST and moving forward he will expand to Read More...
Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 REST API Examples
Thanks to Christian Stich for putting together this series on the REST API. In this final installment on the REST API, we’ll walk through a couple examples of using the REST API to embed spreadsheet data in new and interesting ways. Embedding a ‘Live’ Read More...
Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 REST API Syntax
Thanks to Christian Stich for putting together this series on the REST API. As we saw in the previous post , using the Excel Services REST API is as simple as specifying a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) in your web browser. In this post we’ll walk Read More...
Simple Access to Spreadsheet Data Using the Excel Services 2010 REST API
Thanks to Christian Stich for putting together this series on the REST API. Beginning our journey on all things Excel Services 2010, I thought I’d start off with a feature that’s been getting a lot of buzz lately since its introduction at the SharePoint Read More...
Excel Services 2010 Overview
Thanks to Steve Tullis for putting together this post. Before delving into Excel Services 2010, I want to recap a point that some readers may not be aware of. The Excel team is delivering two browser-based solutions as part of the Office 2010 wave of Read More...
Excel Add-In for Manipulating Points on Charts (MPOC)
Overview In Excel 2007, the ability to directly resize or reposition points on the chart was deprecated. This feature was sometimes referred to as "Graphical Goal Seek." For example, in Excel 2003 a user could click on a data point in a column chart twice Read More...
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