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  • Scatter charts with PowerPivot

    Rob over at http://powerpivotpro.com has a interesting post on scatter charts and PowerPivot: At right is a list of all chart types in Excel. But not all of them are supported as PivotCharts. Try to use XY (Scatter), Bubble, or Stock as a PivotChart, and you’ll get an alert saying you cannot create it with pivot data. So, do you give up? Nope. Remember the post where I converted a PivotTable to Cube Formulas using that button on the ribbon? This is a wonderful opportunity to use that feature in an...
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  • Windows Touch & Excel 2010

    Thanks to Robin Wakefield for putting together this post on touch. With the new Windows 7 Touch platform you now have the ability to interact with applications by touching the screen. This paradigm is a huge success in the mobile market and as the hardware evolves, applications utilizing touch input will become more broadly available. We will likely begin to see touch as the primary interaction method for some PCs such as wall mounted displays used as a kiosk as well as to enhance the experience...
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  • Migrating Excel 4 Macros to VBA

    Thanks to Eric Patterson for writing this blog post. As promised in our Programmability Improvements in Excel 2010 , here are more details about the Excel 2010 improvements to aid in migrating Excel 4 Macros to VBA. Excel has a macro facility, known as Excel 4 macros (XLM for short) that was the primary macro language prior to the introduction of VBA in Excel 5.0. Most people have long since migrated their Excel 4 macros to VBA; however, some Excel 4 macro capabilities were missing from VBA, which...

  • Where to Find the Form Controls

    Today’s author is Jan Karel Pieterse, an Excel MVP. In this article, he shows the different locations of the form controls in Excel. You can find additional details on how to use these controls on his web site: http://www.jkp-ads.com/articles/controls.asp . Excel 2007 and 2010 In Excel 2007 and 2010, the form controls and control toolbox controls are slightly hidden. First of all, you need to show the Developer tab in the ribbon. Here is how that's done: In Excel 2007, click the Microsoft Office...
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  • Offloading UDF’s to a Windows HPC Cluster

    Thanks to Gabhan Berry for putting together this series on high performance computing. In my previous post I discussed how we have enabled workbooks to be calculated on a Windows HPC cluster. In this post, I’ll describe the other piece of HPC integration we have developed in Excel 2010: offloading the calculation of UDFs to a Windows HPC cluster. Overview User defined functions are one of the most popular pieces of Excel extensibility. UDFs enable customers to create their own worksheet functions...

  • Calculating Excel Models on an HPC Cluster

    Thanks to Gabhan Berry for putting together this series on high performance computing. In a previous post , I introduced the work we have done with the Windows HPC team to enable customers to calculate Excel models on a Windows HPC cluster. In this follow up post, I go a little deeper into how we can harness the utility and power of Excel 2010 and Windows HPC to solve complex modeling problems. Modeling Complex Systems using Excel 2010 and Windows HPC Mathematically modeling complex problems is far...

  • Excel 2010 and High Performance Computing

    Thanks to Gabhan Berry for putting together this series on high performance computing. In this post, I introduce the work we’ve done with the Windows HPC team to integrate Excel 2010 with cluster computing. This is a high level overview and I’ll follow up with the technical details in later posts. High Level Overview of Excel 2010 and Cluster Computing High Performance Computing (HPC) is a branch of technical computing that uses supercomputers and cluster computing to solve computationally intensive...

  • Management Features of PowerPivot for SharePoint

    Thanks to John Hancock from the PowerPivot team for putting together this post. Previous articles have covered some of the features of PowerPivot for Excel, and shown how PowerPivot helps users build really powerful BI applications right in Excel. We have described some of the PowerPivot for SharePoint features on this blog as well as the PowerPivot blog , so for this article I will be focusing on the features that we provide to help IT to manage and understand the self-service BI activity. Self...
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