SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
by James Pyles, Christopher M. Buechler, Bob Fox, Murray Gordon, Michael Lotter, Jason Medero, Nilesh Mehta, Joris Poelmans, Christopher Pragash, Piotr Prussak, Christopher J. Regan
Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services
The first step in utilizing Excel Services is to create an Excel worksheet or workbook. When you load your workbook into Excel Services, you allow that data to be accessible through SharePoint; however, Excel Services supports only a subset of Excel 2007 functionality. The following is a list of Excel features supported in Excel Services:
Calculation
Cells
Charts
Connections
Consolidation data from ranges
Data sources such as SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, OLEDB providers, and ODBC drivers
Dates
Excel tables
Formatting
Functions
Names
What-if analysis
There are a number of Excel 2007 features that are unsupported in Excel Services. If you attempt to access or use an unsupported feature, you will receive an alert saying so. The following is a list of the unsupported features:
Attached toolbars
Comments
Consolidation data from PivotTable reports
Controls for Form toolbars, Toolbox controls, and ActiveX controls
Data sources for Microsoft Business Solutions, Windows SharePoint Services lists, SQL Server, and external data ranges and tables linked to Windows SharePoint Services lists
Data validation
Digital signatures
Displayed formulas
External references to linked workbooks
Images and objects that are linked or embedded
Ink features
Legacy macro languages such as Microsoft Excel 4.0 Macro Functions and Microsoft 5.0 dialog sheets
OLE and DDE links
Queries, either text or web
Security and Privacy
Shared workbooks
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code, macros, ...
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