Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Inside Out

Using Excel Services

In every organization, knowledge workers need to analyze increasingly more data more frequently. This version of Excel supports vastly larger worksheets than the prior version to meet these increased demands. The worksheets and workbooks you can create in Excel 2007 are very large. A single workbook can easily contain millions of values—a challenge for a standard desktop or laptop. Although Excel data stores are increasing in size, the number of controls placed on company data is also increasing, particularly for publicly traded companies. Excel Services, new in Office SharePoint Server 2007, is a special server version of the calculation capabilities found in Excel to support and secure Excel workbooks in a multiuser environment ...