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With the announcement of easier collaboration on SkyDrive, sharing files with friends, family and colleagues just got a WHOLE LOT EASIER! Now you can share a link to your Excel files with anyone and they can edit the workbooks without needing to sign in with a Microsoft account, even at the same time! Read on to find out how to put this functionality to work for you. ...( read more ) Read More...

As Dan mentioned in his blog post, there’s data all over the web , and with the Excel Button we are giving you a way to get deeper insights with nothing more than the click of a familiar looking button. In this post, I’ll go a little deeper into the hows and whys of this new awesome feature. What is it? The Excel Button, also known as the Excel Interactive View, is like the Facebook like button for data on the web. When you find an Excel Button, click it and you’ll see the simple...

  This blog post is brought to you by Jenny French a Product Manager in the Microsoft Office Team.     On the Excel Web App team, we are committed to improving our products based on your feedback. Since we launched the Web Apps just over a year ago, we’ve been listening to you, and today we’re releasing new features based on what we’ve heard. To everybody who has shared their opinion with us, we want to say a big THANK YOU! Here’s what we’re delivering to you today, based on your requests...

If you're a developer, you may have been wondering..."When are they EVER going to revise the Excel Services JavaScript Object Model (JSOM) documentation for SharePoint Server 2010?" Well, I'm glad you asked! The SharePoint Server 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) online documentation has been refreshed, and I'm happy to announce that as part of that refresh, the Excel Services JSOM documentation was also updated--in fact, it's been completely revised. Keep reading to learn...

Last month, a couple of other writers and I visited the main University of Washington campus in Seattle, where we presented to a group of business students who were interested in learning more about Excel. We led them in a hands-on exercise that showed how you can work on a spreadsheet in your web browser without having Excel installed on your computer. Then, we showed them how to embed a SkyDrive workbook in a web page by inserting some easy to use HTML code. Keep reading to learn more about our...

Today’s blog post is brought to you by Dan Parish a Program Manager on the Excel Web App team. One of the feature requests we frequently get for Excel Web App is “it would be great if there was a way to embed my workbook in my blog”. Well, starting today, if you have an Excel workbook (xlsx or xlsb only) or a PowerPoint presentation on SkyDrive, you can embed them! In fact, the following embedded PowerPoint presentation will show you how: There is also a help article (referenced...