Today's author, Christian Stich, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, discusses how to enable users to quickly and easily create workbooks using external data connections specified in server based data connection files. Overview Excel and Excel Services support importing external data, which...
Recently I posted an article discussing how PivotTables can be used on Excel Services to mimick the Data Validation feature . The author, Dany Hoter, sent me a copy of the file he used in the example screen shots and I never got around to posting it for our readers. Here's a short description of...
Excel has a feature called Data Validation that controls the possible values a user might enter into a cell or a range of cells. As you can see there are many options for validating data entry. The most popular is probably validating against a list of values. The list can be included in the validation...