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Find all your data connections with Office Discovery and Risk Assessment
This post is brought to you by Steve Kraynak, Program Manager for Excel spreadsheet management features. Special thanks to SQL MVP Scott Stauffer for contributing to this article. Who’s using my data?...
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Calling all Excel pros
We invite you to join analysts from around the world to connect, share experiences, and learn more about the power of data to transform business. The only pre-requisite? A passion for data. Join us in...
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6 cool ways to use Custom Maps
Today’s post was written by James Marshall, a developer on the Excel Power Map team. If you haven’t noticed, Excel Power Map got a whole lot richer in September with the introduction of a new feature...
View ArticleMicrosoft sponsors the Financial Modeling World Championships for Excel power...
ModelOff, the Financial Modeling World Championships, is a fun and educational international competition for students and professionals who use Microsoft Excel. This year, Microsoft continues the...
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Office 365 Search is now smarter about spreadsheets
Steve Kraynak is program manager for Excel Spreadsheet Management. Businesses use spreadsheets for many critical functions, such as financial reporting and investment modeling, and they need to...
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Excel Power Map—November update for Office 365
Last month we focused on quality improvements for Excel Power Map, shipping more fixes than in any previous monthly release. This month we’re continuing to make fixes but we’ve also added a nice...
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Power Query November 2014 update—Connect to Analysis Services, Salesforce and...
We are happy to announce the availability of the November 2014 update for Power Query—packed with lots of new features that we hope you will enjoy and thank us for them (since we are in the...
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Who will be crowned Financial Modeling World Champion in New York?
It’s a big deal. This year, ModelOff, the Financial Modeling World Championships, caught the attention of over 3,700 Microsoft Excel users and financial modelers from the U.S., Australia, Russia,...
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Excel Power Map–December update for Office 365
Last month we shipped a great time saving feature—playing a tour directly from any scene. This month we’ve improved Geocoding performance, made the Auto Fit feature for custom maps more accurate, and...
View ArticleWhat happens when 9 Excel power users come to Microsoft campus?
Excel is a tool that means different things to many different people. And with the app available for the PC, Mac, web and even your phones and tablets, the ways in which Excel is being used is...
View ArticlePower View interactive visualizations and PivotTables can now be embedded in...
Today’s post was written by Eli Schwartz, lead program manager and Tsur Arieli, program manager on the Excel product team. Embedding Excel spreadsheet tables and charts in a webpage or blog is a...
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Powering your business with Big Data and business analytics webinar
Big Data is big news, but what does it mean for you? Did you know that Excel now allows you to connect to more than 25 data sources—including Hadoop through Power Query? With Excel, anyone can use Big...
View ArticleAnnouncing new Excel 2013 BI stability and usability improvements
Recently we announced a new public update to Excel 2013 that includes major stability and usability improvements in Self Service BI scenarios—especially when Power Query, Power Pivot and Power View are...
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Excel for iPad helps students stay on top of their GPA
How often have you found yourself trying to calculate your GPA? Or let’s be honest…how many times have you tried to figure out the minimum grade you need to get in a course to maintain your GPA? If...
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Xbox and Power Map team up to analyze game data
In the spring of 2014, the Xbox team asked the Excel Power Map team to help them analyze data collected from the instrumentation of various games to improve performance and the gamers’ experience. We...
View ArticlePower Query January update—new connectors and usability improvements
Power Query for Excel enhances the Business Intelligence (BI) experience by simplifying data discovery, access and collaboration. The Power Query team continually works to improve the Power Query...
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Power Map for Excel–February update for Office 365
In our December update, we promised to have some big things to share about Power Map for Excel in the first quarter of 2015. This month, we are ready to start revealing a few of these great additions....
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Excel Fun—Build 3D graphics from a spreadsheet
Today’s post was written by Carl Kadie, Ph.D., a research developer in Microsoft Research. How Excel helps to understand 3D graphics From video games to movie special effects, 3D graphics drives...
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Catching a comet with Excel Power Map
Today’s post was written by Thomas Nhan, program manager on the Excel team. The recent news that the Rosetta spacecraft made the closest approach ever to the Comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko (Comet...
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3 updates to Excel Power Query
A new update for Excel Power Query is now available to you! This update includes tremendous Performance improvements, a new Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online connector and a couple of new transformations...
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