The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

re: The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

jamiet — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:31:00 GMT

"How useful is that?"

OK, I'll bite. Its very useful indeed. a static table becomes instantly interactive. That in itself is very useful and if you want to go further and get the full power of Excel then it allows you to download it as a .xlsx.

How anyone can suggest that that is not useful is beyond me.

re: The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

tushar mehta — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:08:34 GMT

The idea of Interactive View (IV) is really neat. I combined my knowledge of HTML and JavaScript with IV to explore things like multiple tables with IV buttons and improved formatting for multiple buttons.

www.tushar-mehta.com/.../index.htm

The pièce de résistance, if I say so myself, is the ability to slice and dice (almost) any table in (almost) any webpage.

www.tushar-mehta.com/.../dynamic.htm

re: The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

padmeamanda — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:37:25 GMT

This is really cool... I tried it in Blogger and it doesn't appear at all in IE and it looks a little funny in Firefox. I'm assuming Blogger's styles must be interfering. runtyunicorn.blogspot.com/.../the-excel-button.html

re: The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

Dan B [MS] — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:55:09 GMT

@Richard - Hopefully I can relieve your worry a bit, on two fronts: First, for users who do want to use this inside the firewall, it should work fine in most cases (unless the firwall blocks all Web traffic) since it runs in the web browser and is standard HTML. Additionally, the audience for the Excel Button is all Internet users in the context of their day-to-day Web browsing. We see this being super-useful on sites like cnn.com, espn.com, government data sites, personal blogs, and more.

re: The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

richardb20 — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:22:38 GMT

This is such a great idea, it just a pity that your precious #1 Excel audience (poor corporate employees) are most likely stuck behind firewalls that completely block this capability! What were you thinking?

re: The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

Kwang-soo Park — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:37:30 GMT

wow...great! cool feature!

re: The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

Kwang-soo Park — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:36:35 GMT

wow... great.... cool feature!

re: The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

Dan B [MS] — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:55:34 GMT

@quanghoc - great news - you can do that too! We call it embedding, and you can learn more at http://excelmashup.com/jsapi or by reading this help topic on Office.com: office.microsoft.com/.../share-it-embed-an-excel-workbook-on-your-blog-HA102029502.aspx

re: The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

phanh — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:18:44 GMT

Hmm so this only takes the table below the button and turns it into some cool lightbox with different charts? How useful is that? I expected to be able to link to a xls file and display that on the webpage instead.

re: The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere

Melissa M. [MS] — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:45:08 GMT

@timbjames: The only limit is the number of rows that Excel can handle on a sheet (~1 million), so 40K should be fine, so long as they are all on the same web page.

@astroXP: Thanks!