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Today's author, Chris Rae, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about using Perl code to read Excel's new file format. The OOXML Format As most readers will know, we spent a lot of time during the development of Office 2007 in creating and documenting a new XML-based file format (Office...
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Today's author, Dan Parish, concludes his discussion of building an Excel Services solution. In Part 4 , I walked through creating the web part pages for the solution. At this point, you should have a fully functional asset tracking application up and running. The last piece, that we'll build...
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Today's author, Dan Parish, continues on his discussion of building an Excel Services solution. In Part 3b I walked through creating a User Defined Function (UDF) that pulls information from a SharePoint List into Excel Services. In today's post, I will describe how to create the two web part...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Today's author: David Gainer, a Program Manager on the Excel team. PivotTables are designed to help users make sense of large amounts of data by providing an easy way to build a summarized report. In addition, PivotTables can be rearranged easily, so that once you have some summary data in a PivotTable...
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Today's author: Mark Gillis, an Excel and SharePoint writer, who's been through six versions of Office, survived to tell the tale, and picked up a thing or two along the way. Excel doesn't have an easy way to append multiple text files into one worksheet through the user interface. From time...
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Today's author, Gabhan Berry, a Program Manager on the Excel team. A copy of the spreadsheet discussed in this post can be found as an attachment at the bottom of this post. Introduction When faced with a table of data, what kind of techniques do we employ to extract information from it? Maybe the...
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Today's author, Helen Hosein, a Program Manager on the Excel team. Certain shadows created in Excel 2003 look different Excel 2007. In particular, you might notice that your old cell shadows, as well as shadows on things like Chart Titles might look a bit different when you open your workbooks in...