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Thanks to Amy Lin for putting together this post. In Excel 2007, we introduced the ability to publish workbooks to SharePoint. This feature enabled users to upload Excel workbooks (or specific workbook items) on to their SharePoint sites for people to
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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This article continues the series on PowerPivot that started with an overview as well as an introduction to PowerPivot for Excel 2010. We’ll now focus on the support PowerPivot provides for collaboration. Frequently, business users need to share applications
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Steve Tullis & Pej Javaheri presented “Intro to Excel and Excel Services 2010” to a standing room only crowd at SharePoint Conference 2010. Features demo’d include: Excel: Pivot Chart improvements Filter Search Named sets Improvements to conditional
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From the Office Web Apps Blog : About a month ago I wrote about the Technical Preview on Windows Live. Since then we’ve seen a lot of interest in Office Web Apps and received numerous requests from people wanting to try them out. To make this possible,
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The SharePoint blog has a pretty extensive write up detailing the innovations in SharePoint 2010 . Here are some Excel relevant excerpts: On Business Intelligence: Historically, business intelligence has been a specialized toolset used by a small set
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A while back I blogged about the announcement at PDC of the Excel Web App. Today I am excited to share with you that we are making the Excel Web App, as well as the Word and PowerPoint Web Apps, available to a select group of Windows Live users. To quote
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