The earliest version of this application was written in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and it evolved from Microsoft Office Excel 2003 to the Excel 2007 managed add-in. This year, executives wanted us to put their application on the Web. We decided to stay in Excel so that...
If existing applications receive values that are not in "English (United States)" format, the application itself might convert values entered by the user to en-US before passing them to Excel. The conversion step causes errors because Excel expects the values in the user's culture, not en-...
One of the drawbacks of previous Excel versions is the limit on the number of rows that you can manipulate. For Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and later versions, that limit is one million rows. In contrast, Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel enables you to build BI applications that can...
Examples discussed herein relate to creating and handling lambdas in spreadsheet application, e.g., Microsoft Excel. As discussed herein, lambdas are user defined functions (UDFs) that are natively creatable and maintainable through the use of a lambda registry in the spreadsheet application. In an...
The Backstage is a new area in Office 2010 Applications that allows us to easily view document properties and interact with the "Backend" systems. This means that we don't have to learn anything about these weird and wonderful IT systems, we just access them dir...
ADXKeyFilter. It deals with a feature of Excel that captures the focus if a key combination which can be processed by Excel is pressed. By default, Add-in Express panes do not pass key combinations to Excel. In this way, we are assured that the focus will never leave the pane ...
This would be important if you're building a server that needs to generate Excel and PowerPoint documents, and you want to avoid using Office Automation on the server. Note: Microsoft does not currently recommend, and does not support, Automation of Microsoft Office applications from any ...
Creating a Windows Console Application in Visual Studio 2005 In this procedure, you create a Windows console application. However, the example code is not specific to Windows console applications and could be used in a variety of application types. ...
Welcome to Office Space, the column that offers tips and tricks for scripting Microsoft® Office applications. We’ll post new tips every Tuesday and Thursday; to see an archive of previous tips, visit theOffice Space Archive. And if you have particular questions about Microsoft Office scripting...
In support, we get a lot of questions and feature requests. One request that has passed my desk a few times is the ability for a webi document to use an unmanaged Excel