New site layout and MVP links

This blog, based on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), is the blog of the Excel programme team. It is sometimes slow, but toward launch of new versions is a great resource for knowing what's going on 'at the coal face'.

Probably the most informative and complete site on Excel on the entire internet, covering many subjects in great detail particularly good for functions and formulas, understanding dates and times in Excel and VBA Chip is a long- standing MVP and Excel developer based in the US.

A great site for clever function use and 'the' resource for pivot tables. Debra is another long-standing Microsoft MVP and works in the area of Excel reporting and analysis. She also has authored a book on pivot tables and lives in Canada

Andy has a great resource on charting, including just how you get that desired look to your charts with incredibly clever tips and tricks to work around Excel's charting limitations. Andy works in data presentation on a daily basis, is an Excel MVP and hails from the UK.

Ron has some great general stuff on Excel but is particularly active in the area of the new Excel 2007 ribbon interface. He is a Microsoft MVP for Excel and lives in Holland.

Run by Dick Kusleika, for many years this site gave a daily tip and trick in Excel, so you can imagine there are few subjects that have not been touched upon. It is now tough to update this resource every day, but certainly there is something new a few times a week. many MVPs also guest author here. Dick is an MVP for Excel and comes from the US.

Jan Karel operates out of The Netherlands and is a Microsoft MVP. Developing custom solutions in Excel for a living, he is a founder member of the Professional Office Developer Association.

An obsessively detailed web site devoted to charting with some VBA on the side, and now a new blog to back it up. Authored by Jon Peltier, an Excel developer and MVP located in the good old US of A.