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  • PowerPivot Alpha Geek Challenge

    There was a recent contest with PowerPivot, see the details of the contest here: http://wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/19877?order=recency&view_entries=1   There were some great PowerPivot reports submitted, including some from our MVPs: Bill Jelen created a “Tag Cloud & SmartArt Updated Via PowerPivot!” report:   Tushar Mehta created a “Visualize US population trends over the last 150 years” report: Check out all of the entries here: http://wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests...
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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...

  • 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...

  • Programmability Improvements in Excel 2010

    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 Excel formulas with user defined functions, to name some key ones. Many developers create very complex applications, which have demanding requirements and push Excel to its limits, so developers are...

  • Table Improvements in Excel 2010

    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 area. The first table improvement feature, AutoFilters in sheet headers, builds on work completed in the previous version of Excel. In Office 2007, when the table header of a selected table is scrolled...
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  • Collaborative Editing Using Excel Web App

    In the last couple posts, we talked about how editing in Excel Web App works, how it’s different than editing in the Excel desktop client, and the kinds of things you can do in the Excel Web App. If you haven’t read about the editing experience yet, start with the Editing in Excel Web App – Part I post. Today I am going to cover how Excel Web App’s editing functionality enables easier collaboration on spreadsheets among multiple authors. Collaborative Editing – What’s That? Picture this scenario...
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  • Editing in Excel Web App – Part II

    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 with lots of data and formulas. You send it out to your team and are sure that everyone will love it, and they do…sort of. Your team is picky. They want to “analyze” the data. The want to easily...

  • Editing in Excel Web App – Part I

    Thanks to Dan Parish for putting together this series on editing in Excel Web App. Before I get started, if you haven’t already read our Excel Web App 2010 Overview , you may want to take a minute to get acquainted with what Excel Web App is all about. In the next two posts I’m going to be talking about the editing capabilities of Excel Web App, and I’ll use the example of creating a simple baseball stats tracking workbook throughout so that you can see how all of these capabilities come together...
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  • Excel Web App 2010 Overview

    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 and dashboard capabilities which ship as part of SharePoint Server 2010. Also included are APIs which enable rich business application development. Excel Web App: The companion to the Excel client which...

  • Updated Excel Services Web Services API in SharePoint 2010

    Thanks to Christian Stich, the founder of Excel Services Consulting, L.L.C. , for putting together this post on the updated Excel Web Services API. The Excel Web Services API that initially shipped with Excel Services 2007 has been updated and expanded for Excel Services in SharePoint 2010. I will address the additions and changes for the Excel Web Services API for SharePoint 2010 in this post. Additional information about the Web Services API covering the 2007 implementation can be found in the...

  • Introducing the JavaScript Object Model for Excel Services in SharePoint 2010

    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 Model (JSOM) which I will discuss in this post. The JavaScript Object Model (JSOM) enables a whole new set of solutions using Excel Services. With the JSOM it is possible to detect and react to...
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