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10th Oct 2005
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"Greetings. My name is David Gainer, and I am the Group Program Manager for Microsoft Excel. Starting today, I am joining several other members of the Microsoft Office team in sharing information about the upcoming release of Microsoft Office."

So begins an important new development in the Excel world - one of Microsoft's key executives is now maintaining an Excel blog to document how the program is evolving. As well as letting us know what his team has in store, Gainer's blog provides a means for Excel users to feed their ideas and opinions directly back to the development team.

Best-selling Excel author John Walkenbach reacted to the appearance of Gainer's blog by pulling the plug on his own efforts. Rather than having to rely on "facts, rumors, and speculation", often clouded by Walkenbach's non-disclosure agreements with Microsoft, he pointed readers towards Gainer: "His blog is pure fact."

Back in Redmond, Gainer's first post revealed that the most common question the Excel team gets asked by customers is 'when are you going to add more rows/more columns/more rows and more columns'.

"Well, the answer to the question is 'in Excel 12'. Specifically, the Excel 12 grid will be 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns," he wrote.

Subsequent postings ranged across the other features announced so far for Excel 12, the Save to PDF function, and tutorials on conditional formatting.

Having launched ExcelZone in April, a sniffy editor might accuse the author of jumping on a publishing bandwagon - but the blog is now a permanent feature on the ExcelZone RSS menu bar.

John Stokdyk

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