Comments on: My First Look at Excel 2010

By: Mark McHenry

Mark McHenry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:09:52 +0000

Good stuff. I will be interested in reading more info. about Sparklines and Power Pivot because I have already had prospects and customers start to ask me about it.

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:56:26 +0000

Added comment regarding sorting.
I did confirm that Excel2010 has problems with sorting.
I uninstalled 2010 replacing it with 2003: sorting was returned to normal speeds.
(I was concerned that it might by my new laptop.)

A recorded macro sorting routine in Excel 2010 is very different from all previous versions???

By: SHE

SHE — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:00:21 +0000

Working with Excel 2010 containing lots of VBA code AND a brand new i-7-720 laptop.
Have noticed a significant delay in sort routine completions, and significant delay in completing cell sizing by VBA code.
Anyone else having similiar problems ?

By: James Robinson

James Robinson — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:35:37 +0000

Excel 2010 BETA

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:41:25 +0000

James -

Is this the 2010 technical preview, or the beta itself? I haven’t tried all of my tricks yet in 2010, but Save As HTML is related to the exporting feature I use frequently.

By: James Robinson

James Robinson — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:45:34 +0000

I have several excel documents that i save as HTML. These documents contain graphs, and in Excel 2007 the graphs save as either PNG or GIF perfectly.

I have found that in Excel 2010 that these graphs, although still being saved as PNG or GIF, actually contain no data. They are blank.

Has anybody else experienced this?

Does any body know a fix or work-around?

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:06:52 +0000

Either that, or dot-net would be absolute overkill for such a simple project.

By: Dennis Wallentin

Dennis Wallentin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:53:57 +0000

>>not the latest flavor of dot-net

Simple because MSFT knows that VBA-developers don’t know how to handle this kind of high-tech add-ins .

All the . regards,
Dennis

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:38:14 +0000

Metrick -

As far as I know, the Goal Seek capability of charts (i.e., the dragging of points) has not been reinstated, and will not be reinstated.

Microsoft has admitted their mistake, though, and have released an Excel Add-In for Manipulating Points on Charts (MPOC). Wonder of wonders, it’s even written in VBA, not the latest flavor of dot-net.

This add-in lets you select a point, then use sliders on a userform to adjust values. I’ve been noodling around with a similar add-in that actually lets you click and drag the point, like in the good old days. It’s been hard, though, because I am trying to invoke Goal Seek for those cases where the plotted value is a formula depending on other values.

By: Metrick

Metrick — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:28:42 +0000

Feature: Direct manipulation of data points on charts
97-2003: You can drag data points on a chart and change their source values on the worksheet.

2007: Dragging data points to change the source values on the worksheet is no longer supported.

Has dragging data points to change the source values make it make back to 2010 version.