Getting to Know the Excel Services Service Application

From a high level, Excel Calculation Services (Excel Services) is a shared service in SharePoint 2010 Enterprise that allows users to publish Excel workbooks to a document library. Excel Services can open workbooks from SharePoint libraries as well as from UNC paths and HTTP websites. For initial testing purposes, it is generally recommended to start with SharePoint library-based workbooks and then extend to other sources.

This is not meant to replace the other means of making Excel data available in SharePoint 2010 as outlined in the previous section, but is meant as a means of managing and securing the workbooks and publishing content through the SharePoint interface. For example, if ...

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