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Today's author, Diego Oppenheimer, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about connecting PivotTables to data stored in SharePoint Lists. Many of us on the Excel team have been approached by customers asking us how to create a connection to a SharePoint list. SharePoint lists can be exported...
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Today's author, Dan Battagin, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about joining two tables in Excel (a.k.a. returning multiple rows for VLOOKUP). Today, we'll take a look at the VLOOKUP function, and work out a way to get around its major drawback - it returns only a single value that...
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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, 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...
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Today's author, Charlie Ellis, continues discussing the spreadsheet he built to solve Sudoku puzzles. In my previous post , I walked through a number of formulas for setting up the valid values and solution board. In this post we'll cover using iteration and other formula tricks to help solve...
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Today's author, Charlie Ellis, a Program Manager on the Excel team, shares a spreadsheet he built in Excel for solving Sudoku puzzles. The spreadsheet can be found in the attachments at the bottom of this post. For those of you who don't already know, Sudoku is a type of logic puzzle (that I...
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We just recently released some online training courses for Excel Services and I wanted to call your attention to them. Excel Services I: The Basics - An overview of the value proposition of Excel Services as well as the basics for publishing and sharing workbooks using Excel Services. Excel Services...
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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...