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June 2008 - The Excel Team Blog

  • Community Clips

    The folks over in Office Labs are testing out a new idea called Community Clips and I, personally, think it's a fantastic idea. It's a community site where anyone, not just Microsoft employees, can upload "how to" videos that take you step-by-step through accomplishing a particular task. Think of it as YouTube meets Office Online . If, like me, you're a visual learner, this is a great way to learn new tips and tricks on how to do any number of things with Microsoft products...
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  • Building an Asset Tracking Application in Excel Services – Part 3a of 5

    Today's author, Dan Parish, continues his discussion on building an Excel Services solution. Part 3 turned out to be a bit longer than we had anticipated so we've split it up into two parts: 3a and 3b. Thus far in this series, I have given an overview of the solution , and detailed how to build the Excel workbook that is the core of how it works. In today's post, I will walk through building the SharePoint List that users will input their machine information into. Overview In order to...
  • Building an Asset Tracking Application in Excel Services – Part 2 of 5

    Today's author, Dan Parish, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, continues on with his multi-part post about building an application using Excel Services. In my last post I gave an overview of the asset tracking application that I am going to spend the next four posts describing how to build. The core of the application is the workbook it is based on. The workbook is what really makes this application work, since it is what pulls in the data users entered, figures out who has and hasn't...
  • VBA Focus Group at TechEd

    Do you use VBA (or any other extensibility mechanism) in Office and are you headed to TechEd? If so the we would like to talk with you in an "invitation only" meeting. This is your chance to share your feedback and influence the work that Microsoft is doing in the programmability space. You must be available for either: TechEd Dev: Held at 4:30 on Thursday, June 5th TechEd ITPro: Held at 3:00pm on Monday, June 9th If interested, please respond to the following questions to Amanda.Silver...
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