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Your call: What would you like us to post about on the Excel blog?

We know you're pressed for time, and you want what you read to be worth the effort. Our question to you is this: What kind of blog post about Excel works best for you? Do great tips help you work smarter? Maybe code examples unlock your creative side? Or do guest posts from Excel MVPs hit home? Take this poll, and be heard. Thanks! ...( read more ) Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2011 6:00 PM by Excel Blog

Filed under: News / Announcments, Excel 2010, Excel Web Apps, Excel

Apollo 11 & Excel 2010 – Watch History Reimagined for a chance to win

That got us thinking - what would it have been like if Excel had been around back then? How might things have been different? Then we thought - what better moment in time to illustrate the point than the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. I mean, it literally is Rocket Science. So, we decided to create a video to see how Excel might've helped the team at NASA work through some of the tensest moments in American history. Have a look and see what you think. Better yet, after watching the film, enter...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2011 12:05 PM by Excel Blog

Filed under: Conditional Formatting, News / Announcments, Excel 2010, Sparklines, Slicers

Vote for the prototype you like for the Open XML SDK

The developer documentation team is asking for your feedback on a couple prototypes for the Open XML SDK Documentation. Visit their blog to download the prototypes and vote: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officedevdocs/archive/2010/07/13/vote-for-the-prototype-you-like-for-the-open-xml-sdk.aspx Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2010 1:03 PM by Microsoft Excel 2010

Filed under: Programmability, News / Announcments

Announcing Office 2010 and PowerPivot Beta Availability

From the Office 2010 Engineering blog : Today is an exciting day! At PDC we announced the availability of the public betas of Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps for business customers. If you’d like to be one of the millions of people who try, test and give feedback on the latest and greatest, you can download the betas at www.microsoft.com/2010 . We also announced that Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 beta is available now too, and you can download...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2009 12:22 PM by Microsoft Excel

Filed under: News / Announcments, Excel 2010, Gemini

Excel Add-In for Manipulating Points on Charts (MPOC)

Overview In Excel 2007, the ability to directly resize or reposition points on the chart was deprecated. This feature was sometimes referred to as "Graphical Goal Seek." For example, in Excel 2003 a user could click on a data point in a column chart twice which would surface handles that could be used to resize the columns. Over the last couple of years we have received a lot of feedback from customers indicating that this was a valuable feature for some scenarios. However, we were not...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2009 5:34 PM by Microsoft Excel

Filed under: Charting, News / Announcments

New PowerPivot Site

More info and a fun video here: http://powerpivot.com/ Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2009 7:44 PM by Microsoft Excel

Filed under: News / Announcments, Excel 2010, Gemini

Are you an Office Developer? You'll Want to Read This:

Today at the SharePoint conference the Office Developer Marketing Team announced the Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program . Details were posted today at Gray Knowlton's blog . Here's an excerpt from his post: With the great value Office 2010 brings for end users, IT Professionals and Developers, we are also investing heavily in making deployment of the new version of Office easier. As part of our focus on deployment, we have renewed priority on helping ensure applications and Add...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2009 5:58 PM by Microsoft Excel

Filed under: Programmability, News / Announcments, Excel 2010

More updates from SPC

Steve Tullis & Pej Javaheri presented “Intro to Excel and Excel Services 2010” to a standing room only crowd at SharePoint Conference 2010. Features demo’d include: Excel: Pivot Chart improvements Filter Search Named sets Improvements to conditional formatting Slicers Sparklines Excel Services: Client fidelity improvements & support of new Excel 2010 features (View) Support of workbooks containing images, VBA, etc. Edit & Collaboration in the Enterprise (SharePoint) and in the Cloud Read...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2009 6:33 PM by Microsoft Excel

Filed under: Excel Server, News / Announcments, Excel 2010

Office Web Apps Technical Preview Expanding

From the Office Web Apps Blog : About a month ago I wrote about the Technical Preview on Windows Live. Since then we’ve seen a lot of interest in Office Web Apps and received numerous requests from people wanting to try them out. To make this possible, we are opening up the Technical Preview and inviting more people to try out the Office Web Apps. For a limited time, you can sign-up for a Technical Preview account here (if you are already a part of the technical preview, this link will generate an...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2009 9:38 PM by Microsoft Excel

Filed under: Excel Server, News / Announcments, Excel 2010

SPC Day 1: Keynote

More dispatches from Charlie Ellis at SPC. Note, he mentions some new features we haven't yet talked about on the blog (spoilers!) but will soon! Three things really struck me during the keynote address: There’s just incredible momentum around SharePoint and a ton of excitement around SharePoint 2010 and all the great new social networking functionality, integration with the Office clients, the Web Apps, and – of course – the Business Intelligence in SharePoint. The atmosphere of the conference...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2009 4:32 PM by Microsoft Excel

Filed under: News / Announcments, Excel 2010

SharePoint Conference Starts Today

The SharePoint Conference is on this week in Vegas. What does that have to do with Excel, you ask? Plenty! The conference represents the first time we’ve shared with customers publicly all the great work we’ve put into the next release of SharePoint, which includes, of course, Excel Services and other investments in BI. So there will be some exciting announcements and lots of information to absorb. We’ll be covering all the Excel related stuff on this blog over the next month or so. Here are some...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2009 3:41 PM by Microsoft Excel

Filed under: News / Announcments, Excel 2010

SharePoint in plain English

A nice video on the SharePoint blog that answers the question: “ what is sharepoint? ”. Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 7:29 PM by Microsoft Excel

Filed under: News / Announcments

Update to Microsoft's BI Strategy and Vision

Many of you might have heard or seen posts about a recent change to the Microsoft BI Vision & Strategy, namely, PerformancePoint will no longer be sold as a separate SKU but rather be part of the SharePoint Server enterprise offering, and the specific planning components will receive one more update this summer. More information on this change can be found on Microsoft’s Business Intelligence site and the The BI Blog . Just what does this change mean? For the most part, it means that more customers...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2009 6:24 PM by Microsoft Excel