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To this point in the blog, I've covered most of the new features that we've added to Excel 2007, but I wanted to quickly mention a couple of tools that folks use in Excel and where they can be found in Excel 2007 – specifically, the Solver and the Analysis
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SamRad is back with another guest post. Today Sam is writing about another feature he worked on - supporting table referencing from places other than the formula bar. Enjoy. Dave posted about Tables and the new "structure referencing" feature in previous
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In the Office UI blog, Jensen recently authored a post describing the improvements that had been made to the "recently opened documents list" in Office 2007. This is something that I was going to cover this month, but now I don’t have to, because Jensen
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Today we have another guest post from Sam Radakovitz (Sam brought you a number of posts on the Trust Centre as well as an Excel 2007 game ). Today, Sam talks a bit about Forms Controls and an example of the sort of thing you can do with them. Note – this
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Eric is out for a few days, so there is going to be a temporary break in the compatibility posts (they will resume sometime next week). In the meantime, I thought I would quickly review a few tabs that I have not talked about yet and potentially one or
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In the past I have written about Office Online (you can get to Office Online using Help|Office Online in any current version of Excel). One of the great things that Office Online provides is a wide variety of templates that can help users get going more
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There were some questions in the comments in the last few days about working with the Ribbon minimized (which I do a lot, but not exclusively). In a nice piece of chance timing, Jensen wrote a short piece (UI blog) on how the Ribbon has been improved
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To this point in the blog, I haven't talked too much about the file formats that Excel 2007 uses, since Brian Jones has been covering the new Office Open XML format pretty well in his blog. Today I thought I'd give an overview of the three main formats
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A while ago, I wrote a post about 214 keyboard shortcuts . In the last few months, we have added 4 more for one reason or another, so I wanted to pass them on. (I have not updated the matrix I included as part of that post, because I accidently misplaced
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Fairly recently, the Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 team publically released their product. What is “Windows Compute Cluster Server”? Lots of information available here , but, to borrow a line from their site, Microsoft Windows Compute
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A few months back, I wrote a post about how Excel 2007 will enable customers to save their work as a PDF file by simply using the Save As command from within Excel. Well, it turns out that’s not looking like it will be the case – the feature will be available
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A few days ago, I outlined some changes that had been made to Tools|Options. Today, I wanted to run through how the options were organized for those of you that are curious, and point out one other feature I forgot to mention Monday. Since we already
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In the course of writing this blog, between comments and direct emails, I would estimate that I have fielded over 1,000 questions. Of those, only one had anything to do with Tools|Options, which I found to be a surprisingly low number, given how often
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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
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Keyboard Access Today I want to start with a link to Jensen Harris' UI blog, where Jensen has put up a post that describes the Office 2007 keyboard model . I am personally a big keyboard user, and I know the same is true for a lot of Excel users, so this
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