All About File Formats

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Lars Schouw — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:48:09 GMT

Cheer.

Where is the best place to report this as a request to get this fixed..

Lars

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Dan Battagin — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:32:45 GMT

Air_Cooled_Nut - The quick answer is that on the server, you really don't want the security or performance concerns that are inherent in allowing VBA to run. For more details, you can read up on Excel Services in Dave's posts here: blogs.msdn.com/.../11361.aspx

Lars - No, that same limitation still exists in Excel 2007.

Copy paste between two instances of Excel

Lars Schouw — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:36:32 GMT

Did this problem get fixed in 2007?

I found a bug in Excel copy-paste between two sessions.

groups.google.com/.../ff1eeb8706d15e3d

Lars

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Air_Cooled_Nut — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:33:14 GMT

Question regarding the "Working with Excel Services" note:

Maybe it's because I'm ignorant about Excel Services but why can't macros be used in it?

re: All About File Formats

sysmod — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:58:59 GMT

Re: ". Why is XLM still in Excel? "

I'm surprised to hear it's still in legacy systems, perhaps migrated from Lotus 123.

But XL4 code is still used TODAY to get access to some obscure functions via defined names. Such as GET.CELL

See:

www.jkp-ads.com/.../ExcelNames08.htm

Patrick O'Beirne

www.sysmod.com

re: All About File Formats

David Gainer — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:07:39 GMT

Harlan - I have stuff lined up for the next few weeks, so sometime in the first half of August with any luck.

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A User — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:30:06 GMT

When's the deprecated features list going to be available?

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Harlan Grove — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:07:53 GMT

When's the deprecated features list going to be available?

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David Gainer — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:12:37 GMT

Hi Dave ... the answer, unfortunately, depends on the feature. Where it is possible (which is many cases), we preserve features. One of the team is putting together back compat info which we will make available in a blog post soon.

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Dave — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:11:19 GMT

David, If I save a file containing 2007 features in XLS format, I understand that a 2003 user can open the file but will not have the new features available.

If that user makes a change and re-saves the file, will my 2007 features be preserved?