With the new results-oriented interface, rich data visualization, and PivotTable views, professional-looking charts are easier to create and use. Office Excel 2007, combined with Excel Services, a new technology that will ship with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, provides significant improvements for sharing data with greater security. You can share sensitive business information more broadly with enhanced security with your coworkers, customers, and business partners. By sharing a spreadsheet using Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services, you can navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views directly on the Web browser.
Create better spreadsheets
• Take advantage of the new results-oriented user interface
• Enjoy increased spreadsheet row and column capacity
• Quickly format cells and tables
• Formulas authoring experience
• Create professional-looking charts
• Use Page Layout View
Improve spreadsheet analysis
• Use conditional formatting
• Sorting and filtering
• Create a PivotTable or PivotChart view
• Full support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
Share spreadsheets and business information with others
• Use Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services to more securely share spreadsheets with others
• Create business dashboards from spreadsheets and share within a portal
• Save as XPS or PDF for easier sharing
• New Excel XML Format enables a more efficient exchange of information
Manage business information more effectively
• Centrally manage sensitive information by publishing spreadsheets to Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Protect confidential business information
• Connect to external sources of information using the Data Connection Library
• Take advantage of the Excel calculation engine in other applications
