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• Drilling around in your Excel PivotTables and PivotCharts

  17 Dec 2012

  This week, I want to turn your attention to one of the truly fantastic Business Intelligence (BI) features that we added to the new Excel. It's called, Quick Explore, and, as long as you are working in the volume licensed desktop version or in the Office 365 "E3" and "E4," or "M" packages , you may have...
• Introduction to PowerPivot in Excel 2013

  13 Dec 2012

  This blog post was brought to you by Diego Oppenheimer a Program Manager on the Excel team. Some weeks ago I introduced an important, new part of the Excel 2013 Data Model and how you could create relationships between different data sources right in your Excel workbook ( http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft...
• Interacting with Your Website’s Data Using Web Excel Mashups

  5 Dec 2012

  This post is brought to you by Harrison Gordon, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team. What exactly is an Excel Mashup? With Web Excel, you can embed workbooks into your website or blog. This alone is really powerful and lets you show a workbook directly in your website (it also lets you easily...
• A Primer on Apps for Office in Excel

  30 Nov 2012

  This post is brought to you by Keyur Patel, a Program Manager on the Excel team. In Excel 2013, even your spreadsheet can have an app . . . One of my areas of responsibility in the 2013 cycle was thinking about integration of the Apps for Office platform into Excel across the desktop and the web. I’m...
• Field List and Field Well in the Excel Web App

  19 Nov 2012

  Since we delivered Office in the browser -- slightly over 4 years ago -- we have targeted a progressive release schedule meant to deliver features that narrow the gap between desktop and web versions of Excel. For a long time, you could do things with the Excel desktop application that were inconceivable...
• Excel Surveys

  16 Nov 2012

  This post is brought to you by Harrison Gordon, a PM on the Excel Services team. I love making music. It’s one of my passions, and it’s a passion I know many of my friends share as well. The problem is that it can be challenging to schedule time and get us all together, and what’s worse...
• Chart Elements: Customizing your Chart

  31 Oct 2012

  This post is brought to you by Chris Doan, a Program Manager on the Graphics team. What’s the first thing you do with a chart after you’ve inserted it? For many users, it’s modifying the chart to make it look exactly the way you want it to look. Sometimes that means fiddling around...
• Beyond column filters: slicers on tables

  24 Oct 2012

  This blog post is brought to you by John Campbell, Lead Program Manager for the Excel Web App team. Slicers were first introduced in Excel 2010 and made filtering PivotTables as simple as clicking a button. We’ve taken the goodness of slicers but moved it beyond just PivotTables - with Excel 2013...
• Quick Analysis: Discover new insights

  22 Oct 2012

  This blog post is brought to you by Chad Rothschiller a Program Manager on the Excel team. As part of our planning work at the beginning of the Office 2013 project, we (the Excel team) participated in several customer visits. We went in small groups to someone’s work environment (whether that was...
• Calculated Member and Measures in Excel 2013

  15 Oct 2012

  Today blog post is brought to you by Alex McMains a Software Development Engineer in Test from the Office Business Intelligence team. Besides many new, exciting features, Excel 2013 also offers enhancements to older features even those that may be a little more obscure to the everyday Excel user. Today...
• Intro to Power View for Excel 2013

  4 Oct 2012

  This blog post is brought to you by Allie Rutherford a Program Manager on the Excel team. Have you ever looked at a dashboard someone made and went, “man, I like that, but there’s too many steps for me to remember”? Or maybe wanted to have a way to play around with your data in a safe...
• Inserting Charts in Excel 2013

  27 Sep 2012

  This blog post is brought to you by Nick Chiang a Program Manager on the Office Graphics team. As Scott mentioned in his Charting Overview post , users have always struggled with picking the right chart type to represent their data. Unless you have a good understanding of the different chart types available...
• Webinar: Previewing Excel 2013

  17 Sep 2012

  In this week’s webinar, we’ll show you some of the new features coming to Excel 2013. You can try them out right now during the free Customer Preview . What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar: How to visualize your data quickly New, easy ways to reformat and rearrange your data How to do...
• Introducing spreadsheet controls in the new Office

  13 Sep 2012

  This blog post is brought to you by Steve Kraynak, Program Manager on the Excel Services team. We have 5 brand new Excel, Web Excel and SharePoint features to introduce to you in the new Office, all designed to help you manage the use of spreadsheets and Access databases. I'll tell you about each of...
• Charting Overview for the new Microsoft Office

  6 Sep 2012

  This post is brought to you by Scott Ruble a Lead Principal Program Manager on the Excel team. With the new Microsoft Office release, the Office DataViz team is proud to deliver a rich set of charting capabilities across Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project. In fact, because there are so many features...
• Introduction to the Data Model and Relationships in Excel 2013

  23 Aug 2012

  This blog post is brought to you by Diego Oppenheimer a Program Manager on the Excel team. I am very happy to be writing this blog post today. Not just because I will be showing you another way Excel can make your data analysis easier but also because I will be introducing the new Data Model and Relationships...
• Flash Fill

  9 Aug 2012

  This post is brought to you by Chad Rothschiller a Program Manager on the Excel team. To try out this new feature download the Office Preview here . Before coming to Microsoft I spent a good deal of time messing around with data. I would extract first names, last names, and email addresses from chunks...
• The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

  2 Aug 2012

  This blog post is brought to you by Melissa MacBeth, Lead Program Manager on the Excel Web App team. As Dan mentioned in his blog post, there’s data all over the web , and with the Excel Button we are giving you a way to get deeper insights with nothing more than the click of a familiar looking...
• Office Business Intelligence – The way people experience data

  26 Jul 2012

  This post is brought to you by Steve Tullis Group Program Manager of the Office Business Intelligence team. This is the third introductory post from the Excel family – Office BI. If you have not read Jane’s post about the Excel client, or Dan’s post about the browser-based versions...
• Excel Web App - What's now available in a browser near you?

  23 Jul 2012

  This blog post is brought to you by Dan Battagin, Group Program Manager for the Excel Web App team. Greetings - I hope everyone's been enjoying the content on the blog over the last few releases, and that everyone's excited to see what's coming in the next version of Office , Excel, and the Excel Web...