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• Your call: What would you like us to post about on the Excel blog?

  26 Jul 2011

  We know you're pressed for time, and you want what you read to be worth the effort. Our question to you is this: What kind of blog post about Excel works best for you? Do great tips help you work smarter? Maybe code examples unlock your creative side? Or do guest posts from Excel MVPs hit home? Take...
• Apollo 11 & Excel 2010 – Watch History Reimagined for a chance to win

  13 Jul 2011

  When you think about it, the ease with which we're able to process and visualize complex mathematics in the digital age is profound. Especially when you consider that it wasn't that long ago that much of this work was done manually. That got us thinking - what would it have been like if Excel had been...
• Vote for the prototype you like for the Open XML SDK

  14 Jul 2010

  The developer documentation team is asking for your feedback on a couple prototypes for the Open XML SDK Documentation. Visit their blog to download the prototypes and vote: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officedevdocs/archive/2010/07/13/vote-for-the-prototype-you-like-for-the-open-xml-sdk.aspx
• Announcing Office 2010 and PowerPivot Beta Availability

  18 Nov 2009

  From the Office 2010 Engineering blog : Today is an exciting day! At PDC we announced the availability of the public betas of Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps for business customers. If you’d like to be one of the millions of people who try,...
• Excel Add-In for Manipulating Points on Charts (MPOC)

  2 Nov 2009

  Overview In Excel 2007, the ability to directly resize or reposition points on the chart was deprecated. This feature was sometimes referred to as "Graphical Goal Seek." For example, in Excel 2003 a user could click on a data point in a column chart twice which would surface handles that could be used...
• New PowerPivot Site

  23 Oct 2009

  More info and a fun video here: http://powerpivot.com/
• Are you an Office Developer? You'll Want to Read This:

  22 Oct 2009

  Today at the SharePoint conference the Office Developer Marketing Team announced the Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program . Details were posted today at Gray Knowlton's blog . Here's an excerpt from his post: With the great value Office 2010 brings for end users, IT Professionals and Developers...
• More updates from SPC

  21 Oct 2009

  Steve Tullis & Pej Javaheri presented “Intro to Excel and Excel Services 2010” to a standing room only crowd at SharePoint Conference 2010. Features demo’d include: Excel: Pivot Chart improvements Filter Search Named sets Improvements to conditional formatting Slicers Sparklines Excel Services: Client...
• Updated! Office Web Apps Technical Preview expanding

  20 Oct 2009

  From the Office Web Apps Blog : About a month ago I wrote about the Technical Preview on Windows Live. Since then we’ve seen a lot of interest in Office Web Apps and received numerous requests from people wanting to try them out. To make this possible, we are opening up the Technical Preview and...
• SPC Day 1: Keynote

  19 Oct 2009

  More dispatches from Charlie Ellis at SPC. Note, he mentions some new features we haven't yet talked about on the blog (spoilers!) but will soon! Three things really struck me during the keynote address: There’s just incredible momentum around SharePoint and a ton of excitement around SharePoint 2010...
• SharePoint Conference Starts Today

  19 Oct 2009

  The SharePoint Conference is on this week in Vegas. What does that have to do with Excel, you ask? Plenty! The conference represents the first time we’ve shared with customers publicly all the great work we’ve put into the next release of SharePoint, which includes, of course, Excel Services and other...
• SharePoint in plain English

  17 Aug 2009

  A nice video on the SharePoint blog that answers the question: “ what is sharepoint? ”.
• Update to Microsoft's BI Strategy and Vision

  26 Jan 2009

  Many of you might have heard or seen posts about a recent change to the Microsoft BI Vision & Strategy, namely, PerformancePoint will no longer be sold as a separate SKU but rather be part of the SharePoint Server enterprise offering, and the specific planning components will receive one more update...