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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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Today’s author, John Campbell, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, shows us the quick and easy way to get external data access working with your Excel Services spreadsheets. I have seen a lot of great blog posts that tell folks how to do great
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A new case study has been published that describes how Microsoft IT used Excel Services to build a portal for finance data. Here's a snippet from TechNet: Controller Workspace: Connecting With Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Today's author, Steve Tullis, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, talks about the various load balancing schemes available for Excel Services. I have received a number of questions in the past few weeks about the load balancer administration
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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
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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
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We just recently released some online training courses for Excel Services and I wanted to call your attention to them. Excel Services I: The Basics - An overview of the value proposition of Excel Services as well as the basics for publishing and sharing
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