Share Information With Customers And Partners; Accessible, Browser-Based Data; Dynamically Render A Spreadsheet In Html - Microsoft 065-04940 - Office Excel 2007 User Manual

Share Information with Customers and Partners

Sharing sensitive business data such as financial plans or sales reports can be
challenging. Sending spreadsheets in an e-mail message can risk exposing confidential
data, and it can be difficult for users with bandwidth constraints to open large
spreadsheets. Furthermore, you cannot control who might view a spreadsheet, or specify
that only certain sections of a larger spreadsheet can be viewed.
Office Excel 2007, combined with Excel Services, a new technology that will ship with
Office SharePoint Server 2007, provides significant improvements for sharing data with
greater security. You can share sensitive business information more broadly and securely
with your coworkers, customers, and business partners.

Accessible, Browser-Based Data

Providing universal access to spreadsheet information in a browser helps you share data
more easily and securely. External users, like customers or business partners, can access
and interact with your data without the ability to see formulae, macros, or other
confidential business logic that might be contained in a spreadsheet.
Excel Services also gives you more control over published workbooks. You can specify
particular sections that should be rendered, like a chart or table, while concealing other
sections that contain confidential data.
In addition, when you publish a spreadsheet to Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can
specify particular cells within a spreadsheet to be used as input cells or parameters for
performing calculations in a custom application within a Web browser. This helps workers
across any organization to take advantage of the same calculation model by entering
their own values for the parameters.

Dynamically Render a Spreadsheet in HTML

With Excel Services you can render a spreadsheet dynamically in HTML for browser-
based viewing. You can permit others to view the entire spreadsheet or only parts of it.
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