Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

8.10. Summary

This chapter started by asking whether Excel was the weakest link in the Microsoft Office lineup of products in terms of collaboration with SharePoint. In the previous chapter, you saw that a key feature of sharing data between two systems, synchronization, had been deprecated in the most recent version of Excel. And while I did show a way to recover from this weakness, it still may have felt that Excel did not contribute to collaboration as thoroughly as some other products.

So I kicked off this chapter by showing how you can publish a static Excel workbook to a SharePoint site. Once published, a service called Excel Services could open and display that Excel workbook in your browser with virtually no lost of visual fidelity compared ...