Excel

Excel is often used as the programming environment for developing complex simulations and parameter studies, particularly in the financial and biomedical industries.  Windows HPC Server 2008 includes several features that enable Excel users to harness the power of cluster computing to make…

This video looks at improvements in the R2 version of HPCS 2008 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).  Application programmability, infrastructure, and manageability have all been improved.  Enhancements to features such as active & passive brokers, file & recollect, and…

News: Windows Server "8" will be called Window Server 2012 The Release Candidate (RC) build for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 will be early June Join David for the Consumerization of IT Jump Start on May 15th and 16th The General Availabilty (GA) of System Center 2012 was annouced at…

In this episode, guest Maarten Balliauw joins Peter to discuss his implementation of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for PHP and linking (non-pun intended) PHP to Microsoft Office Excel via the PHPExcel project. Maarten is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET and a PHP developer. Also, Dmitry and Peter…

Jeff Sandquist has been sending me these links about the crazy things you can do with Excel besides... well, Excel stuff. This is certainly no replacement for an Xbox 360, but count me impressed. Excel Music Synthesizer - EMS allows you to use Excel as a full music synthesizer. Just plot your notes…

What’s with all the Excel/Twitter mashups lately? First we saw SpreadTweet which lets you hide Twitter in a fake Excel spreadsheet, and now, at the (unofficial) Office Watch blog, they’ve posted instructions on how to read incoming tweets in a real Excel spreadsheet. The trick, it seems, is to grab…

With the launch of Office 2010, there are a number of new features found in the popular productivity programs, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote and others. From a now fully-customizable ribbon interface that extends across all programs to a whole new way to copy-and-paste (preview before…

Thanks to some internal emails that were going around recently, we’ve discovered some great Microsoft Office ribbon tweaks, tips, and customizations. I’ll confess, I hadn’t known about all of these, but they certainly are handy: Hide the Ribbon: To hide the ribbon out of view leaving only the tab…

Mor Hezi, the senior product manager for Microsoft Excel stops by to sum it all up for us. Ha, ha, okay that was so bad.  But seriously people the new Excel is so much easier to use.  With the Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Home Tab on the new user interface, you can immediately view the most…

I can’t tell you how many times I was asked this question when I worked in I.T.: “I accidentally just closed my spreadsheet and said NO to saving my changes…is it gone?” For whatever reason, some people’s fingers slip from time to time and the wrong button gets mashed. The shadow copies feature…