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The Excel blog is back after a short break for the holidays. Happy New Year! Today's post comes from Chad Rothschiller, a Program Manager on the Excel team, who is looking at ways to improve performance in the next version of Excel. The Excel development team is currently investigating a number of...
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Over on Brian Jones' blog there are two recent articles that may be of interest to our readers here. They deal with using the Open XML SDK to programmatically interact with Excel's XML-based file format. One deals with "document assembly", which is essentially building a file mostly...
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Today's author, Stephane Viot, a Program Manager in the Office Global Experience Platform team, reflects on how leveraging application features could help speed up the development of your VBA solutions, while improving their performance. Often -but hopefully not always- VBA developers forget about...
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Today's author, Dany Hoter, a Product Planner on the Excel team, talks about some performance characteristics he recently discovered using various methods to manipulate large ranges using VBA. Problem description You have a large range in Excel with data. Let's say it contains 100,000 rows and...
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Today's author, Danny Khen, a Program Manager on the Excel team, discusses a solution he recently built using Excel. The Manual Spreadsheet Spreadsheets are the bread and butter of running the business world, where PCs are ubiquitous. The possibility, indeed even the need, to use spreadsheets in...
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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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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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There's a new article up on MSDN that describes a custom solution built by the IT department here at Microsoft that uses Excel Services. Rather than re-paraphrase, I'll "borrow" liberally from Shahar's description : The solution is probably one of the most advanced implementation...
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Today's author: Sam Radakovitz, a Program Manager on the Excel team that enjoys creating VBA applications in Excel. A bit ago I got a question through email asking if we could change the 'grid selection color' in Excel. Or at least I called it 'grid selection color', it's basically...
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Last post we talked about how to use Excel as a flexible development environment and touched on how to use ActiveX Controls to enhance your solution and using tables programmatically to manipulate data. In this post we are going to drill into how to add custom Ribbon UI, context menus. Custom Context...
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Last post we talked about how to use Excel as a flexible development environment and touched on the benefits of using Office graphics to build your UI. This post goes into how to use ActiveX controls in Excel and how to contain and manipulate data in tables to drive your application. Using ActiveX Controls...
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Today's author, Jon Adams, a Tester 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. As you are probably well aware, Excel is a very versatile tool and is often used in ways that are hard to imagine. This blog post is a...
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Today's author, Sanjay Kulkarni, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team. We have heard from several customers about scenarios where they have workbook dependencies. So the output of one workbook is used in other workbooks for calculations. The dependencies could be a result of the business...
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Following MacWorld earlier this week, there has been some inaccurate information circulating online regarding VBA support in Office for Windows. While it’s true that VBA isn't supported in the latest version of Office for the Mac and the VBA licensing program did close to new customers last year...
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A bit of older news but worth mentioning again for those that might be interested. The Office Developers Conference (ODC) is being held this year in San Jose, California and will take place February 10-13. To quote the site: "ODC 2008 is the premier event for Microsoft Office and SharePoint developers...