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Backwards Compatibility

• Replacing OWC Reporting with Excel Services

  9 Jan 2008

  Today's author: John Campbell, a program manager who works on the Excel Services teams. Replacing OWC Reporting with Excel Services As a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, I often field emails from people who have a thin reporting solution that is based on Office Web Components (OWC). They would...
• New Whitepaper - Migrating to Excel 2007

  2 Mar 2007

  Another Excel 2007 whitepaper is available. According to the description, "This paper has been developed to aid IT professionals in the process of migrating to Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Here you will find descriptions of the primary functional differences and how those variances might affect workbooks...
• PivotTable Compatibility

  30 Aug 2006

  Today Eric Patterson finishes his series of posts on compatibility. For my last post about compatibility, I would like to drill down into more detail on Excel’s PivotTable feature. In Excel 2007, we have invested a lot of our time improving PivotTables. If you are just joining, you can find a number...
• Deprecated Features For Charting

  28 Aug 2006

  Today Eric Patterson continues his discussion on Compatibility. Last week I described the features that we have deprecated for Excel 2007 . Today I want to expand on that list to include the features related to Charting in Office 2007. There has been a lot of work in Office 2007 to move charting to use...
• Deprecated features for Excel 2007

  24 Aug 2006

  Today Eric Patterson returns with a few more guest posts on Compatibility. Thus far the discussion about compatibility has been focused on how new features in Excel 2007 are handled when saving files to previous versions or when working in Compatibility Mode. The flip side of the discussion is the list...
• Conditional Formatting Compatibility

  14 Aug 2006

  Today we have the third guest post from Eric Patterson, Excel Program Manager. Eric is writing about compatibility in Excel 2007. Conditional Formatting is one of the areas where we have made a lot of improvements in for Excel 2007. Dave has already described in previous posts what we have done; here...
• Compatibility Checker

  11 Aug 2006

  Today we have the second guest post from Eric Patterson, Excel Program Manager. Eric is writing about compatibility in Excel 2007. As introduced in the last post, the Compatibility Checker scans your workbook for issues that are not supported by earlier versions of Excel. When saving a file to the Excel...
• Compatibility Mode

  10 Aug 2006

  Guest writer: Eric Patterson. Over the next several posts, Eric, one of the members of the Excel Program Management team, is going to discuss backwards compatibility in Excel 2007. I hope readers find this interesting. Over the next several posts I will describe the features that we have built-in to...