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SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
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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
September 2007
Beginner
822 pages
23h 3m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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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