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  • 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...

  • Calculate the ISO Start of Year date

    Today’s author is Shane Devenshire, who has been an Excel MVP for many years and who regularly contributes to Excel Newsgroups. He has published over 300 articles in different computer magazines, and co-authored numerous books. Excel might be better today because of the many bugs he posted when he was a Beta tester! This post shows you how to use a formula or custom VBA function to calculate the ISO Start of Year date. Here is a formula for calculating the ISO Start of Year date for any legal Excel...

  • Week Numbers in Excel

    Today’s author is, Ron de Bruin, an Excel MVP . You can find more useful tips from Ron and links to Excel add-ins at his website: http://www.rondebruin.nl/ There are four primary week numbering systems in use worldwide. Each system has subtle differences that you should be aware of. Excel can work with any of these systems: 1)  ISO Week number: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ISO8601:2000 Standard. All weeks begin on a Monday. Week one starts on Monday of the first week...

  • Building an Asset Tracking Application in Excel Services – Part 3b of 5

    Today's author, Dan Parish, continues his discussion on building an Excel Services solution. In Part 3a I walked through how to create the SharePoint List that stores the data users enter. In this post, I will walk through how to create the Excel Services User Defined Function (UDF) that will pull this information from the SharePoint List into Excel Services. Overview Out of the box, Excel Services does not support pulling in data stored in SharePoint Lists. However, you can add this functionality...
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  • 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...
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  • Building an Asset Tracking Application in Excel Services – Part 1 of 5

    Today's author, Dan Parish, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, will discuss over the next few posts how he built an asset tracking application using Excel Services. At the SharePoint Conference in Seattle in March, I did a presentation entitled "Leveraging Excel Services to Build Rich SharePoint Applications". The talk included a demonstration of how to build a SharePoint application that used Excel Services to solve a data collection scenario in which group administrators...
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  • Ten Tips for Using Excel Services

    A new MSDN article about Excel Services was just released. If you do any kind of work with Excel Services, whether you are just getting started with it or trying to do something a bit more advanced, this article is a pretty good read because it covers some of the more common pitfalls that we hear from customers. The following topics are discussed: Making an Excel Workbook Compatible with Excel Services Configuring External Data Connections Configuring Excel Services to Work with Kerberos Saving an...
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