Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Publishing Workbooks to Excel Services

Making an Excel workbook available through Excel Services begins with uploading an Excel 2007 workbook to a document library on a SharePoint Server 2007 site. You can upload an existing Excel workbook or create a new one directly within the document library. Any of the standard techniques for interacting with a document library will work to store an Excel file on the server, such as uploading it through the Web site or through the Explorer View. However, to take advantage of specific features of Excel Services, such as controlling which worksheets are visible and which cells can receive input, you must use the Publish feature within Excel 2007. None of the other methods of making an Excel 2007 workbook available ...