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Opening workbooks by running separate instances of Excel
This post is brought to you by Chad Rothschiller, a Program Manager in the Excel Team. In Excel 2013, each of your workbooks opens in its own window, similar to Word and PowerPoint. This means that...
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Adding rich data labels to charts in Excel 2013
Storytelling is a powerful communication tool, and data is essential for many decision-making tasks. Together, they can be data visualization at its best: the science and art of transforming your data...
View ArticleExciting new BI features in Excel
Yesterday during the Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference we announced some exciting new Business Intelligence (BI) features available for Excel. Specifically, we announced the expansion of the BI...
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Automatically plot multiple pieces of online data in your Excel spreadsheet
This post on exploring Webservice functions is brought to you by Lee Bizek, a Program Manager in the Excel Team. If you’ve ever wanted to incorporate data from online resources into Excel...
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Creating cool animated visualizations with Excel and Power BI
Our friends over in the Power BI Blog posted an in-depth walkthrough of the new features available as part of Power Query and Power View. In particular, how to create a cool time series scatter...
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Manage your spreadsheets with Data Validation in the Excel Web App (aka an...
This post is brought to you by Cathy Harley, a Program Manager in the Excel Team. I moved out to the West (best) Coast about a year ago to join the Excel team, and I’ve absolutely fallen in love with...
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Telling a story with charts in Excel 2013
This post is brought to you by Alex Mullans, a Program Manager on the Office Graphics & Visualizations team. Charts are a method for visual storytelling. You may not judge a story by its cover, but...
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Practical PivotCharts in Excel
This post is brought to you by Kevin Donovan, a Program Manager on the Office Graphics & Visualizations team. PivotCharts allow for charting-based data exploration and summarization in a way that...
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Real-time co-authoring in the Excel Web App: Why and how we did it
This post is brought to you by Micah Myerscough, a Program Manager on the Excel team. Recently, we released some exciting new features in the Excel Web App. One of the highlights is real-time...
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Excel REST API in SharePoint Online
This post is brought to you by Andrew Stegmaier, a Program Manager on the Excel team. Excel Services on SharePoint offers a bunch of ways for developers to extend the power of Excel and integrate Excel...
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Filtering charts in Excel
This post is brought to you by Jeffrey Johnson, a Program Manager on the Office Graphics and Visualizations team. Have you ever had a dataset but only needed to chart certain parts of it? Here are 4...
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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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Introducing new and modern chart types now available in Office 2016 Preview
Editor’s Note 7/7/2015: We added the sample workbook used to create the charts, which you can download here. As part of a wave of new updates delivered in the Office 2016 Public Preview last month, we...
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6 updates in Power Query for Excel
This month’s Power Query update includes six new or improved features including: Improvements to ODBC Connector Navigator dialog improvements Option to enable Fast Data Load versus Background Data Load...
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Introducing the Waterfall chart—a deep dive to a more streamlined chart
Last month, we introduced six new chart types that will be available as part of Office 2016. Today, we will show you how to take advantage of the Waterfall chart, one of the most popular visualization...
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