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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:56 PM

One More Great-Looking Documents Post – Shapes

A few weeks ago I posted a series of articles about great-looking documents. I have had a few questions about shapes since I wrote those posts, so I thought I would write a quick post on changes to shapes in Excel 2007 (and Office 2007 really – anything
Posted by David Gainer | 15 Comments
Monday, April 10, 2006 11:14 AM

Headers and Footers in Excel 2007

In the post last week on Page Layout view , some of you may have noticed the words “Click to add header” in a few of the screenshots, which was a hint that there have been some changes in headers and footers in Excel 2007. I am going to review those changes,
Posted by David Gainer | 19 Comments
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 3:11 PM

Page Layout View

A few posts back when I provided an overview of our work in the area of “better looking documents”, I mentioned that two of our goals were to “Make it easy to see what your work will look like printed as you create it “ and “Make it easier to maintain
Posted by David Gainer | 14 Comments
Friday, March 31, 2006 4:11 PM

PivotTable Styles

Yesterday we looked at Table Styles . Today, I wanted to revisit PivotTable Styles (see a post here where I introduced PivotTable styles a few months ago – you might want to re-read that before proceeding). This post will be a bit shorter, because most
Posted by David Gainer | 13 Comments
Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:05 PM

But wait, there’s more (styles) … Table Styles in Excel 2007

Last post we looked at Cell Styles – both the changes we made to the feature as well as the set of Cell Styles that will ship in the Office public beta. Today, I wanted to revisit another (completely new) set of styles that are part of Excel 2007 – Table
Posted by David Gainer | 6 Comments
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:36 PM

Cell Styles - More Usable, better defaults

A few posts ago, I presented an overview of the work we are doing in the area of great looking documents . Over the next few posts, I want to walk through a number of the improvements we have made to styles. Today, let’s cover Cell Styles. “Cell Styles”
Posted by David Gainer | 4 Comments
Friday, March 24, 2006 8:45 PM

Document Themes Part II

Last time, we looked at what a Document Theme (“theme”) was, some of the places it shows up in the Excel UI, and a few examples of why themes are useful. Today I wanted to cover how to change, create, and modify themes, how to tweak themes, and themes
Posted by David Gainer | 8 Comments
Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:15 PM

Document Themes Part I

In the last post, I presented an overview of the work we are doing in the area of “great looking documents”. Over the next few posts, I want to walk through a number of the improvements in a bit more detail. Today, I am going to introduce the idea of
Posted by David Gainer | 11 Comments
Monday, March 13, 2006 11:24 AM

Excel 2007 documents – easy on the eyes

One of the themes we focused on with Office 2007 was “great looking documents”. For the next half-dozen articles, I am going to explain what that means for Excel, and some of the cross-application features that users will see in Office 2007. Way back
Posted by David Gainer | 18 Comments
 
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