excel spreadsheet in news
Queen Mary Uni ditches Excel, makes student plans with IBM
News The software replaces a system based on a set of 64 Excel spreadsheets and will have a significant effect on financial planning for the university, according to its head of business systems, Ken Burt. [16 Oct 2008]
Cruise line gets ship-shape with workforce management tool
News Up to now, the company got by with an Excel spreadsheet but according to Royal Caribbean UK and Eire business manager, Marcus Lyall, the 50-seat contact centre has grown to the point where it could no... [16 Aug 2007]
Microsoft-backed ODF converter set for launch
News The same group of Microsoft partners will now start work on code to translate file formats between Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint presentation software and the corresponding ODF files, said... [02 Feb 2007]
Microsoft, Nortel show off their unified comms
News Ballmer said: "Presence information could show up in the comments on an Excel spreadsheet. The CEOs of Microsoft and Nortel Networks have announced the first set of products stemming from an alliance of... [18 Jan 2007]
Google adds wikis to its arsenal
News For example, the company has an online spreadsheet and calendar that multiple people can edit. Say someone fluent in Excel macros or scripting languages. Google's empire building has swallowed up... [01 Nov 2006]
Get your fix: Microsoft sinks 18 holes
News Of those, one is dedicated to Excel and offers a fix for a total of eight flaws in the spreadsheet application. The Office and Excel flaws are detailed in security bulletins MS06-037,... [12 Jul 2006]
Excel flaw opens door to PC hijackers
News A hole in Microsoft Excel has been identified that could allow attackers to take control of a computer, a security group said on Thursday - the third vulnerability affecting the popular spreadsheet... [07 Jul 2006]
Cyber attack targets unpatched Excel flaw
News The malicious spreadsheet file contains a Trojan horse, called 'Mdropper.J', and program called 'Booli.A' that can download more malicious files to an infected PC, the security company said. A new, yet-to-be-patched... [19 Jun 2006]
Google Spreadsheets takes aim at Excel
News The launch of Google Spreadsheets puts the search engine in even more heated competition with Microsoft, whose desktop-based Excel spreadsheet program is a standard office tool. Google is today set to... [06 Jun 2006]
Microsoft gives a heads-up on Office 2007
News Many of the new capabilities will be included in SharePoint Portal Server, which has been expanded from a tool for handling portals to one that also handles other Office tasks, including forms management, spreadsheet... [16 Feb 2006]
Office update 'will cause more hassle than you think'
News As a result of the case, Microsoft said it was forced to change the way Microsoft's Access database interacts with its Excel spreadsheet. Microsoft's recent warning that customers must use an updated... [07 Feb 2006]
SAP to strengthen links with Office
News The new program will enable Office workers to enter data into an SAP system via Microsoft's popular Outlook calendar and email programs and via Excel spreadsheet. Microsoft and Germany's SAP are joining... [26 Apr 2005]
Excel finally gets registered
News Microsoft introduced its Excel spreadsheet program in 1985, but didn't get around to officially registering its trademark until earlier this year. Microsoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake said the company filed... [12 Nov 2004]
QuickBase gets new tools
News QuickBase, which competes with server-based collaboration product such as Microsoft's SharePoint, is most commonly used for collaborating on tabular data typically saved as a spreadsheet. We let people finish a report in... [10 May 2004]
Sun plans Microsoft Office migration help
News The macro migration tool will convert macros written in Microsoft Excel so that they can be recognised and used in StarOffice Calc, the spreadsheet included in the StarOffice bundle, said Sun. Macros are... [17 Mar 2004]
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