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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...
Using form controls on a worksheet
Today’s author is Rob van Gelder, previously quite active in the online Excel scene (Newsgroups, Excel forums, his own but currently inactive website) and who just upgraded to Excel 2007 because he still likes to dabble. The following power tip shows Read More...
Copying Worksheets with a List or Table
Today’s author is Ron de Bruin, an Excel MVP . You can find more useful tips from Ron and links to Excel add-ins at his website: http://www.rondebruin.nl/ Problem : It is not possible to copy more than one sheet to a new workbook or existing workbook Read More...
Creating a Custom Popup Menu
Today’s author is Derek Mang, owner of Systems Solution Developers Inc. You can find more useful tips from Derek on his website: www.officevbasolutions.com . This post shows you how to create a custom popup menu in Excel. Microsoft Excel has lots of popup Read More...
One More Sparkline Trick
In this blog post I’ll walk through one more interesting way you can use sparklines in Excel 2010. In the above example we have the sales for each book category and for each store. While you can’t see the exact numbers in this view, you can get the feel Read More...
Using parameters with web queries
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 shows you how to dynamically work with data from a website in Excel. Introduction Excel provides a very Read More...
A Sparkline Trick - Using the Horizontal Axis as a Reference Line
In this blog post I’ll walk through some of the ways you can use sparklines in Excel 2010 using sample sparklines from the book store demo file: In the above example we have the data for the employee sign-up contest, this is a contest where employees Read More...
Sparklines – Lining Up the Points
In this blog post I’ll walk through some of the ways you can use sparklines in Excel 2010 using sample sparklines from the book store demo file: In the above example we have sales for each year, the cost of sales, and net profit for that year all divided Read More...
Sparkline Axis Options
In this blog post I’ll walk through some of the axis options for sparklines in Excel 2010 using sample sparklines from the book store demo file: The above sparklines are displaying the number of books by category for each month. The sparklines in this Read More...
Formatting Sparklines
In this blog post I’ll walk through formatting sparklines in Excel 2010 using sample sparklines from the book store demo file: The above sparklines are displaying the net profit by month for the three book stores in 2008. The net profit number alone can Read More...
Adding Some Spark to Your Spreadsheets
In this blog post I’ll walk through creating sparklines in Excel 2010 using a sample table from the book store demo file: In the table we have the sales for the month of June: a column for total sales for the month, multiple columns for each day’s sales, Read More...
Add Buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar and Customize Button Images
Today’s author is Ron de Bruin, an Excel MVP . You can find more useful tips from Ron and links to Excel add-ins at his website: http://www.rondebruin.nl/ This post shows you how to add a button to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) for one or all workbooks. Read More...
Modifying Conditional Formatting Color Ranges in Excel 2007
Today’s authors, Amit Velingkar, a Program Manager on the Excel team, and Bob Silverstein, a User Experience Researcher on the Excel team, talk about creating professional looking Color Ranges in Excel. Introduction: My fellow PM on Excel, Robin Wakefield, Read More...
A Robust Way To Reference Multiple Columns In a Table
I’m sure many of you have built a spreadsheet like this before: you’ve got a table of data; one of the columns in this table contains a formula which references a span of columns in the same table. The number of columns you need to reference may change Read More...
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