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Friday, September 15, 2006 9:35 AM

Ribbon Shots

OK, for those interested, here are shots of the ribbon as they shipped in the beta that was released yesterday. These are more or less finalized – there may be a few tweaks between now and when we are done, but not many. There are both XP and Vista versions
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Friday, May 12, 2006 4:40 PM

And now for something completely different – regulatory compliance and spreadsheets

Spreadsheets today support critical business processes, from financial reporting and analysis to research and development. As a result, they have become an important enterprise resource that must be included when addressing compliance requirements. Some
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 1:08 PM

Excel 2007 – The Final Look, and more rows and columns

The Final Look For most of the history of this blog, I have been showing you screenshots produced using “Beta 1” builds of Excel 2007 and making comments along the lines of “not final UI”. Today, the UI became a lot more final. What do I mean? This morning
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:54 PM

Charlie’s List, or “214 Keyboard Shortcuts”

One of the program managers on my team (Charlie) has put together a list of 214 keyboard shortcuts available in Excel. While it isn’t exhaustive (for example, it doesn’t cover shortcuts available in dialogs), I find it a useful presentation of the shortcuts
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Friday, February 17, 2006 12:42 PM

How Much Does It Cost, or "Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System"

Over the past few months, I have been asked three specific questions repeatedly either via comments ore more often via email. One of them, "how do I sign up for the public beta", was one that I could answer (which is to register here ). Another one, which
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:22 PM

The big picture ...

Before I carry on digging into the details of the new and improved features in Excel 12, I wanted to make sure everyone had a good sense for the work we’ve done in this version. When we were planning Excel 12, we spent a significant amount of time talking
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Monday, September 26, 2005 10:17 PM

Some other numbers ...

As part of the Excel team’s work to increase the number of rows and columns in Excel 12, we also increased a number of the other “limits” in the product. This work falls into a two categories. First, we increased a number of limits to support our “big
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Friday, September 23, 2005 7:21 AM

Let’s start with some "big" news …

Greetings. My name is David Gainer, and I am the Group Program Manager for Microsoft Excel. Starting today, I am joining several other members of the Microsoft Office team in sharing information about the upcoming release of Microsoft Office. Specifically,
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