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Just over a year ago, I started this blog with the goal of documenting the new features in Excel 2007 and Excel Services. My plan was to write this content until around the general availability of Office 2007. After 163 posts, ~1,900 comments, and ~1,800 emails, this goal has pretty much been met – while I am sure there are a few small items that have slipped by, I am pretty sure that myself or another team member has written about every large- or medium-sized feature or change in Excel 2007. Along the way, I have met a huge number of users in the Excel community (several of whom I have already visited here in Redmond or when out on the road), seen numerous examples of interesting spreadsheets, received a ton of feature requests, heard a lot of useful feedback, and received a lot of help with calculation performance tuning. I have also had a lot of fun – I was not sure how things were going to turn out when I started this exercise last year, but the whole thing has surpassed my hopes in pretty much every area. Thanks to everyone that read, commented, and sent me email, and thanks to everyone that helped out with files and product issues. I really do appreciate everyone’s help.
Given that the blog’s original mandate – thoroughly documenting Excel 2007 for the Excel community - has been met, I am going to slow down my activity for the time being. I still have a few more forward-looking topics suggested by readers I hope to get to, there are more whitepapers coming to talk about, the team will probably want to post some more articles, and I am going to try and figure out a way to involve the community in the next version of the product (to the extent I can come up with a feasible model for doing that). That said, starting today, I will not be churning out posts at the rate I have been, so I thought I would let everyone know - perhaps a few a month opposed to a few a week. We will see.
Again, a huge thanks to everyone that has read and participated so far … Dave.
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Thanks very much to you Dave. The information you have provided has been of great benefit.
and props on the OS/400 command lingo too.
well done, david. thanks for your efforts
David,
Thanks for keeping the blog alive with lot of good stuff.
I hope that the blog will be available even after You have 'closed the shop'.
Kind regards,
Dennis
My thanks too.
I've been following all the "Office 12" bloggers who were prominently displayed on the Beta site and you (by far) were more active; provided better information and lasted longer without repeating your old posts than all of them.
Mike Walsh
Needless to say I am very thankful for the good work you have done.
As XL-Dennis stated, please the site up (for as long as possible) as this is really a good reference site for the new Excel. I have finally started using Beta and I can see my need to come here often for some reference points.
Thanks Dave, for keeping us posted on all the great work that you guys are doing. :-)
Hey - does the posting title suggest an affection for the old S/38 or AS/400 days?
should be just a quiesce point restart... good work anyway Dave.
Hi all - yes, the blog will be around indefinitely so that folks can use it as needed.
With regard to PWRDWNSYS, yes, in a previous life long ago, I did a lot of work on the AS/400.
Thanks for all those most valuable information - it has helped me (I'm not an Excel specialist, only a PowerPoint user) a lot in understanding the program and its new features.
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