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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Thanks to Danny Khen for putting together this post. What’s new? Excel has been a platform for developing business solutions for a long time now. Developers write code to customize and extend Excel in many ways – automating Excel operations, user interface customizations, data entry forms and extending...
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Thanks to Ben Rampson for putting together this post. In today’s article I will outline three features in Office 2010 that improve table interaction in Excel. These feature additions build on the work started Excel 2007, addressing areas with significant customer feedback and further improving the feature...
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Today I’m going to continue on with our baseball stats tracking workbook example and talk more about the editing capabilities in Excel Web App. If you haven’t read Editing in Excel Web App – Part I though, I suggest you check it out first. Working with your data So now you’ve got a great looking workbook...
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Thanks to Steve Tullis for putting this together. Way back in November 2009, I wrote a short blog post announcing the two browser-based solutions the Excel team is delivering as part of the Office 2010 wave of products: Excel Services: Version two of our real-time, interactive, Excel-based reporting...
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Thanks to Christian Stich , a consultant working on Excel Services projects, for putting together this series on the Excel Services JavaScript Object Model. Excel Services 2010 has added two entirely new programming APIs: The REST API which I covered in an earlier series of posts and the JavaScript Object...
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Thanks to Amy Lin for putting together this post. In Excel 2007, we introduced the ability to publish workbooks to SharePoint. This feature enabled users to upload Excel workbooks (or specific workbook items) on to their SharePoint sites for people to view and interact with using Excel Services. In Excel...
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Excel Services does a good job of rendering Excel spreadsheets with a high degree of fidelity. In other words, what you see in Excel is what you will see in Excel Services. Excel, however, is incredibly feature rich, comprising features added over decades of development. By comparison, Excel Services...
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Thanks to John Campbell for putting together this post. Ongoing management is key to any successful server product’s deployment. It can be challenging to figure out the right initial combination of settings, and to know how to further change those settings when problems arise. With that in mind, I have...
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Thanks to Dan Parish for putting together this post. One of the great things about Excel Services is the Excel Web Access (EWA) web part. This web part allows you to render entire workbooks, or just portions of a workbook (for example a chart or a Table) in a SharePoint dashboard page. For a high level...