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  • Switching to Excel 2010? Start here…

    There are lots of great reasons to step up to Excel 2010 from an earlier version. Some of the new features— sparklines , slicers , PowerPivot —were enough for me to take the plunge personally. If you’ve recently upgraded to Excel 2010, or are just about to do so, I want you to know that we have resources available that can help you through the transition. If you’re upgrading from Excel 2007, it won’t take you long to figure out Excel 2010. For the highlights, I’d recommend scanning the What’s New...
  • How it's Made: Tower Defense - a Game in Excel 2010

      This blog post is brought to you by Karen Cheng a Program Manager on the Excel team.     In today's post, we'll show you how the arcade game Tower Defense was created in an Excel spreadsheet (see a video of the game being played here ).  In this game, creeps move toward your castle. You must defend it by placing towers which shoot at the creeps. The more creeps you kill, the more money you get to buy and upgrade your towers. To play, you'll need - · To download the...
  • Office Web Apps Now Available on Windows Live

    We are excited to announce that today Office Web Apps are available on Windows Live. The initial release is available to Windows Live customers in the USA, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland with support for English, Spanish (USA) and French (Canada). More languages and locales will be added over the coming months. This release includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. The ability to edit Word documents and open OneNote notebooks is included. Not only do we want you to try these web apps, we also...
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