Something that I wanted to cover briefly was some other sources for Excel 12 content and news. Some of you may have already run into these links, but to make sure everyone has the benefit, here you go: First, the Office Marketing Group has set up a preview site where you can see a summary of news to date. The site also has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to in order to get the latest announcements. Second, there are a couple of other blogs that discuss the new UI and our work around new file formats...

Before I carry on digging into the details of the new and improved features in Excel 12, I wanted to make sure everyone had a good sense for the work we’ve done in this version. When we were planning Excel 12, we spent a significant amount of time talking to a wide variety of customers. One theme that emerged clearly was that customers wanted to see continued innovation and improvement in the core aspects of spreadsheeting – working with data, formatting & printing, writing formulas, charting...

As part of the Excel team’s work to increase the number of rows and columns in Excel 12, we also increased a number of the other “limits” in the product. This work falls into a two categories. First, we increased a number of limits to support our “big grid” work. These are limits that we increased to make sure that all of Excel’s features could scale to handle more rows and columns. A lot of folks have already asked about these sorts of limits in comments to my first post, in emails, and in comments...

Greetings. My name is David Gainer, and I am the Group Program Manager for Microsoft Excel. Starting today, I am joining several other members of the Microsoft Office team in sharing information about the upcoming release of Microsoft Office. Specifically, I am going to be writing about what’s new in Excel 12 (that’s a working title, not an official name). The Excel team is very excited about the product we are building, and I am looking forward to being able to talk about all the great work the...