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• Hey, Where Did Solver Go?

  7 Sep 2006

  To this point in the blog, I've covered most of the new features that we've added to Excel 2007, but I wanted to quickly mention a couple of tools that folks use in Excel and where they can be found in Excel 2007 – specifically, the Solver and the Analysis ToolPak (ATP) Add-Ins. Enabling Excel Add-Ins...
• Referencing Tables From RefEdit Controls

  6 Sep 2006

  SamRad is back with another guest post. Today Sam is writing about another feature he worked on - supporting table referencing from places other than the formula bar. Enjoy. Dave posted about Tables and the new "structure referencing" feature in previous posts ... see here for the details . You’ll be...
• Recently Used Documents

  17 Aug 2006

  In the Office UI blog, Jensen recently authored a post describing the improvements that had been made to the "recently opened documents list" in Office 2007. This is something that I was going to cover this month, but now I don’t have to, because Jensen has. For those interested, I would suggest reading...
• Sam On Forms Controls

  16 Aug 2006

  Today we have another guest post from Sam Radakovitz (Sam brought you a number of posts on the Trust Centre as well as an Excel 2007 game ). Today, Sam talks a bit about Forms Controls and an example of the sort of thing you can do with them. Note – this is possible in current versions of Excel too....
• Developer Tab

  15 Aug 2006

  Eric is out for a few days, so there is going to be a temporary break in the compatibility posts (they will resume sometime next week). In the meantime, I thought I would quickly review a few tabs that I have not talked about yet and potentially one or two other items. Today, I wanted to briefly review...
• Templates, Templates

  9 Aug 2006

  In the past I have written about Office Online (you can get to Office Online using Help|Office Online in any current version of Excel). One of the great things that Office Online provides is a wide variety of templates that can help users get going more quickly, solve specific problems, etc. Here is...
• Minimizing and Maximizing the Ribbon

  21 Jul 2006

  There were some questions in the comments in the last few days about working with the Ribbon minimized (which I do a lot, but not exclusively). In a nice piece of chance timing, Jensen wrote a short piece (UI blog) on how the Ribbon has been improved in this area post-beta. Please check it out: https...
• All About File Formats

  20 Jul 2006

  To this point in the blog, I haven't talked too much about the file formats that Excel 2007 uses, since Brian Jones has been covering the new Office Open XML format pretty well in his blog. Today I thought I'd give an overview of the three main formats that we have in Excel 2007. File Format Number 1...
• 4 More Shortcut Keys

  28 Jun 2006

  A while ago, I wrote a post about 214 keyboard shortcuts . In the last few months, we have added 4 more for one reason or another, so I wanted to pass them on. (I have not updated the matrix I included as part of that post, because I accidently misplaced the file that I used to make it in the first place...
• Excel And High-Performance Computing Part I

  26 Jun 2006

  Fairly recently, the Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 team publically released their product. What is “Windows Compute Cluster Server”? Lots of information available here , but, to borrow a line from their site, Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is “an integrated, standards-based...
• "Save As PDF" Not In The Box After All

  2 Jun 2006

  A few months back, I wrote a post about how Excel 2007 will enable customers to save their work as a PDF file by simply using the Save As command from within Excel. Well, it turns out that’s not looking like it will be the case – the feature will be available as a free download, but it will not be installed...
• Tools|Options – The Rest

  25 May 2006

  A few days ago, I outlined some changes that had been made to Tools|Options. Today, I wanted to run through how the options were organized for those of you that are curious, and point out one other feature I forgot to mention Monday. Since we already looked at the “Personalize” tab, let’s start with...
• Whatever happened to Tools|Options?

  22 May 2006

  In the course of writing this blog, between comments and direct emails, I would estimate that I have fielded over 1,000 questions. Of those, only one had anything to do with Tools|Options, which I found to be a surprisingly low number, given how often I hear people comment about it when I am talking...
• One More Great-Looking Documents Post – Shapes

  25 Apr 2006

  A few weeks ago I posted a series of articles about great-looking documents. I have had a few questions about shapes since I wrote those posts, so I thought I would write a quick post on changes to shapes in Excel 2007 (and Office 2007 really – anything I write here applies to all the apps). Much the...
• Charting II – Professional charts, made easy (continued) + Excel 2007 keyboard access model …

  12 Apr 2006

  Keyboard Access Today I want to start with a link to Jensen Harris' UI blog, where Jensen has put up a post that describes the Office 2007 keyboard model . I am personally a big keyboard user, and I know the same is true for a lot of Excel users, so this is a topic that is near and dear to my heart....
• SpreadsheetML News

  6 Apr 2006

  BioIT Alliance I haven’t spent a lot of time on the new Excel file formats, since Brian Jones is writing a blog on that subject , but I saw a story today on Brian's blog that was interesting, so I thought I would share it with you. Specifically, he posted a story about an industry group getting ready...
• A Small Piece Of Pleasant News For Those Of Us That Write Code In Office, Plus Some More Screenshots …

  4 Apr 2006

  Any readers that have written VB using the VBA editor in Microsoft Office has probably noticed that historically, their mouse scroll wheel (or equivalent) does not work in the code window. I just noticed in recent builds of Office 2007 that it does. I am not sure when, exactly, that was fixed, but I...
• Quick detour #3: Updates we have made to XLLs

  3 Jan 2006

  In the past few months, I have written a couple of articles ( big grid , multi-threaded calculation ) that prompted comments and questions along the lines of “what about XLLs?” Since the email questions have actually been picking up in frequency (I guess a lot of readers are also XLL authors), I thought...
• We interrupt conditional formatting for a brief message about undo/redo and PDF…

  6 Oct 2005

  A few posts ago when I wrote an overview of everything we did in Excel 12, I said that the list wasn’t 100% complete. Undo/redo is an example of that. We did work to improve undo/redo this release, and since someone asked about it in the comments of a previous post, I thought I would describe the work...