When Microsoft rolled out Office 2007, the company made some fundamental changes to its file formats, updating them from binary files to XML-based packages. The default format for Excel 2007 followed ...

Small databases of a few rows, to a few thousand rows, can often be created more quickly and easily in Microsoft Excel, than by using a dedicated database system. Excel is available as a stand-alone ...

People use the multipurpose Microsoft Excel for everything from logging scientific spreadsheets rife with calculations and charts, to tracking quarterly sales of widgets, to cataloging the books in ...

Microsoft's latest sneak peek at its 2007 update to the Office software package unveils a much more customizable interface for Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Access. As Microsoft fine-tunes the ...

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Microsoft on Tuesday issued two Security Advisories, one warning about a zero-day Excel 2007 vulnerability, the other addressing with a problem that prevented the disabling of Windows Autorun.

When you have a lot of data in an Excel worksheet it often becomes necessary to summarize the information to get to the crux of what it is telling you. There are a number of ways to do this in Excel, ...

I don't usually cover random software bugs on Hardware 2.0 but since a few of you sent me links to this story I thought I'd post it for others. The Problem This issue was introduced when we were ...