Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Inside Out

Excel Services Overview

SharePoint Server offers a powerful new feature called Excel Services to interact with Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbooks securely and directly on SharePoint sites. In Chapter 1, we discussed how SharePoint document libraries and lists in conjunction with Outlook allow for a new way to share attachments. Embedding a URL into an e-mail that points to specific content will allow all users on the e-mail’s distribution list to have access to the same file or pieces of content in a version-controlled, secure manner. Office Excel 2007 files are typically the most-used document type in an organization, followed closely by Microsoft Word (DOC/DOCX) and Adobe (PDF) files. Excel Services assists organizations by enabling them ...