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Office Web Apps Announcements

Yesterday we announced some exciting news about Web Excel (and all of the Office Web Apps) over on the Office 365 Blog. Specifically, we announced that we’ll be improving the Web Apps to be a comprehensive productivity experience (not just a companion to the desktop applications) on more browsers and devices over the next year and beyond. Head on over to the Office 365 blog to check it out! ...( read more ) Read More...

Published Wed, May 05 2013 1:19 PM by Excel Blog

Filed under: Excel Server, Web Services, Excel Web Apps, Web Apps, Excel Web App, browser

Your top 10 favorite Excel posts of 2012

There's an Excel community out there that continually wants to learn new tricks, and there are lots of people just discovering Excel's capabilities who want to join it. The most popular posts about the current version of Excel reflect that mix. But for the new Excel, the popularity ranking reflects the enthusiasms and demands that Excel professionals face. They want to know how the new version makes their lives easier, especially those features that you let you work from anywhere. Check out...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2013 12:55 AM by Excel Blog

Filed under: Excel 2010, VLOOKUP, Excel, Web Apps, Excel 2013, Excel Web App

Creating Excel mashups

If you’re a web developer (or even if you’re not), you’ve doubtless heard of mashups—apps or web pages that combine existing functionality from different sources to create something entirely new. It’s now possible to create cool spreadsheet-based mashups by combining features from Excel Web App—specifically, the embedded workbook feature—with existing JavaScript APIs. Read on to see a couple of demo mashups, and learn about our new site for web developers...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2011 2:00 PM by Excel Blog

Filed under: Excel 2010, Excel Web Apps, Embedded Excel, Excel, Web Apps

Poll your friends with Photo Vote

What should I wear to the party next week? Which hair style suits me best? Your Facebook friends no doubt have strong opinions about these weighty matters, so why not create a quick poll and let the people decide? In this post, we'll introduce you to Photo Vote, a new app created by the Microsoft Office Labs team. With Photo Vote, you can create quick polls in Facebook, gather input from your friends, and then geek out on your results in Excel. ...( read more ) Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2011 9:00 AM by Excel Blog

Filed under: Embedded Excel, Excel, Web Apps

Excel Services content refresh is live

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...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2011 1:35 PM by Excel Blog

Filed under: Excel Server, How To, Excel 2010, JSOM, Web Services, Excel Web Apps, Excel, Web Apps

Free training: Take the next steps in growing your Excel skills

In early May, we told you about the new video series Excel Skills Builder in our post " Take the first step in growing your Excel skills ." In that post, we announced the launch of lesson 1. Well, we've finally finished the rest of the lessons, and wanted to share this great resource with you! As a reminder, the skills builder is a video series that comprises short (typically under 5 minutes each) videos that give you an overview of a task or feature in Excel. The videos are grouped...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2011 1:15 PM by Excel Blog

Filed under: Charting, Conditional Formatting, PivotTables, Data Validation, Formatting & Printing, Solver, Excel 2010, Sparklines, Slicers, Beginner, functions, Excel Web Apps, PowerPivot, macros, Excel, training, Basics, Web Apps, SmartArt, print

College students learn about SkyDrive and embedding workbooks

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...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2011 2:50 PM by Excel Blog

Filed under: Excel 2010, Web Services, Excel Web Apps, Embedded Excel, students, Excel, embed, Web Apps

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