Daily tips for using Microsoft Excel.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

SmartArt Diagrams in Excel 2007

One of the cool new features in Office 2007 is the SmartArt diagrams. Previous versions of Office offered Business Diagrams. The SmartArt feature extends this, offering 175 different layouts.

The one gotcha - Microsoft did not hook up the ability to have text in the shapes calculated by Excel. On today's episode of Call for Help, I will show you how to overcome this problem.

Complete details are here.

Friday, August 18, 2006

Collaborate on Excel Spreadsheets Using Google Spreadsheet

Google Spreadsheet is new, but it already does one thing that Excel can't do - you can have 2 or more people working on the same spreadsheet at the same time. Learn how to use Google Spreadsheets to load your Excel worksheet, collaborate, and then return to Excel.

Show notes from Call for Help episode 409 are here.