New support for query tables on Excel Services improves the workbook, sharing in an organization

This week we are highlighted as part of the SharePoint 2013 release some improvements in Excel Services. This post is brought to you by Prash Shirolkar, Program Manager on the Excel team.

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With the improvements as part of the new Office, we support in Excel Services now refresh the query table. Workbooks with query tables now can seamlessly on the go will be updated from any browser! No need to convert query table to a pivot table or download of a workbook in Excel-desktop-client, to refresh the query table. In other words, the broad sharing of workbooks in the entire organization just got easier.

Ensure the desktop Excel (2007 or 2013) a workbook that contains a query table you and that it is connected to a data source. On the table, table, click the right mouse button on external data properties. If you have virtually no, follow the steps to create here .

Once you're connected, follow these 5 steps:

Guarantee you a link for 'Name' in the external data properties dialog box.

 

Make sure that your query table updated successfully. Select " Update " on the data Ribbon tab for desktop-Excel (2007, 2010 and 2013).

Make sure is, that your Excel Services configured to 2013, refresh external data, depending on whether the query table uses embedded or external data.

Publish your workbook with the query table to a SharePoint document library in 2013, and then viewing the query table on the file. The steps here , you can publish Excel workbooks on SharePoint.

Choose to see update, all connections to the most recent data.

This is it! The query table is now updateable in the Excel Services deployment.

As always, we will continue to work to enhance Excel Services. One area that we do not yet support is refreshing a specific connection via "Update selected." That is something we are considering, but would love to you important hear in the comments, if this is something that you can find and use often.

Refreshing happy by query tables! Notify us of additional features that you would like to see in future versions.

-Prash Shirolkar, Excel program manager

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Support for international users and multiple languages in the new Office

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Julian Parish is the Senior Product Planner in Office International, responsible for coordinating language and market strategy across Office products and services.  He is based at Microsoft's EMEA head office in Paris, France. 

We have made major new investments in the new Office to support international users who work in languages other than English.  Three new languages have been fully localized for the first time and Language Interface Packs added in 13 more.  The range of languages supported in Office 365 and in Office Mobile has also been greatly extended. For the many international users who need to consume or create content in more than one language we are introducing new ways to access Office proofing tools in additional languages.  

We know how important it is for you to feel comfortable using our applications and to be as productive as possible. A key part of that is to use Office in a language you know well or use regularly in your work. We are continuously reviewing the languages we support. As the economies in emerging markets grow further and more people come online around the world, we need to take Office into new languages. In fact, in the past ten years we have increased the number of localized Office languages by over 50%. In the new Office we are therefore investing in two major ways.

 

Word 2013 templates in German

First, we are adding new fully localized versions of Office in three Asian languages: Indonesian, Malay and Vietnamese.  This means that the User Interface (UI) and User Assistance (UA) content will be available in these languages across Office--including Lync--and as a Language Pack for SharePoint Server 2013.   These new language versions will be available to consumers to buy in 2013 and to enterprise customers as part of our Multilingual User Interface or MUI packs.  Alongside the Office Client a dedicated Office.com site in the local language will provide more help and tools for making the most of the new Office.

PowerPoint 2013 in Malay

Secondly, and working closely with our partners in Windows, we are adding thirteen completely new languages as Language Interface Packs to the new Office.  These packs--or LIPs for short--provide a localized User Interface (UI) for the most frequently used Office Client applications: Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word.  They run on Windows 7 and Windows 8 and will be available in 2013 as free downloads; they can be quickly installed on top of Office 2013 in a base language such as English.  The same languages can also be used as Office Web Applications in conjunction with Microsoft SkyDrive.  Together, these solutions will make the new Office available to speakers of national languages in markets which are experiencing rapid PC growth (in Africa and Asia, for example) and of additional languages that are preferred by groups of customers in developed markets.  

These are the LIP languages we are adding in the new Office:

 

With these additional investments, the new Office will be available in 106 languages as either a fully localized language or Language Interface Pack.  Taken together, these languages are spoken as the first language of more than 4.5 billion people across the globe.  They cover at least one official language in nearly every country in the world.

PowerPoint 2013 in Japanese

Changes to the international support in the new Office are not limited to these extra languages.   As more and more of our customers move to our new cloud-based service offerings, we have massively increased the range of languages and markets available in Office 365.  Already, Office 365 is available in 88 markets and 32 different languages, with more planned to come online in the next year.   

The perfect partner to Office in the cloud or on your desktop, Office Mobile will be available in many more languages to accompany the release of Windows Phone 8.  Altogether, we will support 51 different languages.

With each new release, we look at the languages we localize each of the Office applications into.  In Project and Visio, for example, we are adding support for Romanian on top of the 27 languages already localized in Office 2010. 

We have also made significant changes to the Extent of Localization for the Lync family of products.  For the Lync Client, Lync Web App and Lync Admin Center 2013 we will provide a consistent end-to-end user experience in 44 languages.  Language switching for the Lync Client will now be possible as part of the central Office language settings.  For Lync Server we are adding a new localized version in Russian.  Finally, we are stepping up our language coverage for the Lync Desktop Phone Edition software, with ten new languages added (Arabic, Czech, Croatian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Turkish and Ukrainian), bringing the total to 26.

During the development of the new Office we have worked  with our worldwide partners and MVPs to improve not just the range of languages we support, but also the quality of the experience in the local language.  For this release more than 8,000 localized terms have been changed and a new, modern voice adopted.  This is clearer, less formal and more up to date, whether providing help on a new feature or in error messages. 

Being able to navigate confidently in the new Office, using the UI language you want, is only half the story.  Just as important for many of our customers is to be sure of using the right spelling, finding a synonym or checking a point of grammar, whether it's for a proposal in Word or a presentation in PowerPoint.  In the new Office we have made significant investments in our proofing tools:

A feature much requested by our customers has been to add spell-checking in the subject line of Outlook messages

 

There are new thesauri (or dictionaries of synonyms) in Bulgarian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Serbian. The thesaurus feature--in all available languages--can now be accessed in PowerPoint for the first time

 

The grammar-checking functionality is now available in OneNote

A new definitions feature--available in 22 languages--lets you check the meaning of a word as part of the Proofing Pane. Dictionaries for this feature can be quickly and easily installed--free of charge[1]--from the Office Store

Research carried out by our planning teams has shown that up to 45% of Office users regularly read or create content in a second or further language, often English for people who do not speak English as their first language.  For these users we need to make it as easy as possible to find and use the proofing tools in each language they speak and not just their first language. 

In Office 2010 we already include the proofing tools for two or more "companion" languages with each language version.  The English version of Office, for instance, includes all the proofing tools for French and Spanish.  This feature will continue in the new Office, but we are going beyond it to introduce a completely new approach to proofing in multiple languages.  The range of language combinations users may need is almost limitless: a company in Germany may need Greek to do business with customers or partners, a family in the US with relatives originally from Italy may want to send mail in Italian as well as English.  To help all these users, we are introducing enhanced functionality to our existing Language Auto-Detect feature.

Imagine that you have an English version of the new Office installed on your PC, but want to write a document in Portuguese.  As you start typing your content in Portuguese, Language Auto-Detect will now recognize that you are writing in Portuguese and that you don't currently have the Portuguese proofing tools installed.  A pop-up message appears inviting you to download complimentary proofing tools for that language.  Minutes later, you can continue writing with full support to check your spelling and enrich all your Portuguese documents.

This new approach to proofing was introduced for the Consumer Preview of the new Office in summer 2012 and is available now in 50 languages.  Already, more than 700,000 users have downloaded proofing tools for additional languages; if you are using the Consumer Preview, why not visit the Office Language Options page and try them yourself?

We hope you like the changes we have made in our support for international users and multiple languages in the new Office.  If you have suggestions for further improvements or would like to hear more about language-related topics, please let us know in the comments below!

--Julian Parish

[1] Internet access required, fees may apply.

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Outlook.com increases security with support for DMARC and EV certificates

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In a previous blog post, we talked about our goal of making Outlook.com the best and most-used personal email service on the planet. That means building a great service with all the features you expect from modern email, but it also means building a service that is known for world-class reliability, industry leading spam protection and rock solid security features.  Today we're announcing two new enhancements to Outlook.com that help protect your email. 

Over the past several weeks since we announced Outlook.com, we've continued to work to deliver you the highest levels of security and protection technologies.  Today, we are excited to announce two important new security features that help fight common phishing attacks and provide you with even more protection.  The first is complete support for DMARC, a standard that makes it harder for someone to deliver phishing mail to your inbox.  And the second is support for Extended Validation Certificates (EV Certificates), which provides a more secure SSL connection when you are using Outlook.com. We're proud to be the first major email service to provide this higher level of safety and security. Taken together, these new security measures help prevent attackers from stealing your account information and protect your account from phishing attacks.

One example of a common phishing attack is when someone fakes the sender's address, and uses that to try to trick someone into giving up personal information.  For example, an attacker could send mail that looks like it is from a legitimate bank and ask for account verification to trick someone into giving their account name and password.  The attacker could then use that name and password to access the actual bank account.  Today we help prevent these phishing attacks by supporting email authentication standards for sending and receiving email--including SPF, SenderID and DKIM--as well as our own email filtering technology. 

DMARC is a new policy enforcement and reporting standard that builds on SPF and DKIM providing more deterministic outcomes of authentication-failed messages.  Microsoft has been a core participant in the DMARC standards body since its inception. We share their mission to fight against domain-based phishing, along with Facebook, PayPal, Gmail, ReturnPath and others. This standard helps prevent phishing mail from getting into your inbox, and helps senders understand when an attacker is trying to send phishing mail from their domains. 

Our DMARC implementation helps protect you by making it easier to visually identify mail from senders as legitimate, and helps keep spam and phishing messages from ever reaching your inbox. If a sender supports DMARC, we put a trusted sender logo next to their email indicating it is legitimate. The effect is cumulative; the more the email sending services that use DMARC, the broader the protection offered against phishing. 

DMARC helps protect email sending services by giving them valuable information about mail coming from their domain.  As part of DMARC, senders get reports on email that comes from their domain (good and bad), as well as how much of their traffic is passing/failing email authentication checks. This info helps them plan their authentication deployment as well as better understand the nature of the attacks on their domains.  They can also request that messages using their domain that fail authentication be quarantined or rejected, and receive data extracted from failed messages such as header information and URIs from the message body, to provide them visibility into the types of attacks that are targeting their brands.

This combination of protection for readers and senders allows DMARC to help the entire email ecosystem and we are happy to be fully compliant with DMARC for received mail. 

A second type of phishing happens when an attacker puts up a website that pretends to be from one company, but is actually from another.  SSL is an important part of protecting against phishing, but there have been recent cases where some SSL certificates have been compromised, which allowed attackers to impersonate SSL sites.  EV Certificates make your browsing experience more secure than plain SSL by adding confidence that you are interacting with a trusted website and that your information is secure. 

EV certificates are deeply vetted by the Certificate Authority, providing significant assurance that you can trust the sites that use them.  These certificates require a minimum of 2048-bit encryption, which is far more secure than what is commonly used with standard SSL.  The green address bar in your browser provides immediately recognizable assurance that your connection to the service is as secure as it can be from prying eyes. Contrast that with the key length standard SSL uses-in many cases, it can be fairly low, creating a false sense of security.  EV certificates deter phishing attacks by preventing malicious sites from masquerading as the trusted service. While malicious sites might try to impersonate a site's UI or brand, they cannot replicate the browser's green bar.  And by deploying EV certificates broadly we can apply 2048 bit encryption not just to your login, but to your actual mail content as well.

EV certificate support in Outlook.com is rolling out now, and will be coming soon to SkyDrive and our other services.  And of course, the same level of protection is extended to Hotmail.com and Live.com customers while they are upgrading to Outlook.com.  We have chosen one of the most-trusted Certificate Authorities (CA) to issue our EV certificates--Symantec. You can easily verify the authenticity of our webpages by using the enhanced display supported by most browsers, which includes the name of the company or entity that owns the certificate--in this case Microsoft Corporation--and a distinctive green color shown in the address bar to indicate that a valid EV certificate was received.

 

Security is a top concern when choosing an email service, and it's a top priority for all Microsoft development efforts, products, and services. We're never done and will always keep improving.  But we believe that Outlook.com is the best email service available, and now Outlook.com offers even more security enhancements that you won't find anywhere else.

--Krish Vitaldevara, Outlook.com Program Management Team

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HTML5 Editing Support on Adobe Contribute 6.5

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Using new Simulator Support feature for iOS

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BrowserLab adds Chrome 18 support

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Rovio Chooses Flash Player 11 with Support for 3D Graphics

Today, Rovio launched Angry Birds for Facebook using Flash Player 11 with support for 3D graphics. The most social version of Angry Birds yet takes advantage of hardware accelerated graphics in Flash Player to bring a silky smooth gaming experience to a wider audience than ever before. More than 130 million people play Angry Birds every day – now with Flash Player, hundreds of millions of Facebook users can do the same. New, enhanced special effects like lighting, smoke and explosions running smoothly at 60 frames per second bring the game to a whole new level and allow players to have a more connected and engaging experience. As we showed you at Adobe MAX in the fall, Rovio’s general manager of North America, Andrew Stalbow provided a sneak peek of this new hardware accelerated version of Angry Birds built on Flash Player 11:

Angry Birds on Facebook game makes it even more exciting to play with friends, offering amazing new power-ups like Sling Scope, Birdquake, King Sling and Super Seed to extend players’ gratifying arsenals. And with new accelerated graphics, the feathery antics hvae never been more fun to more people. For more information about how to power-up your games using Flash and AIR, please visit the Adobe Gaming Solutions site.

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CSS Regions Support in Google Chrome for Android

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End of Support for Windows Vista SP1

The reason why I asked if there will be an SP3 is because of the business editions (Enterprise and Business). Support for those won't end until 2017. If someone were to install a copy of Vista SP2 in 2016, they would spend until 2017 updating that computer through Windows Update.

@Tommyinoz You are on a Windows blog promoting Linux. Hmm, lets see, would hypocrite be the best choice of word to describe you?

@7flavor If are not interested in running the latest version of Windows, you are probably not interested in running the latest version of IE either. Considering that IE 10 has certain specific dependencies built into Windows 7 and 8 and the fact that support for all the consumer editions will be ending by the time IE 10 goes RTW, it wouldn't make business sense to support Vista.

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10 Ways to get Office help and support

There is: sometimes you need help with Office. If it does not, not would you you read this. (Then again, you would perhaps.) Perhaps you would like to just stop and visit old Office partner every day. Or maybe you here by chance and have no idea how you got here. Either way - you're help today anyway, whether you it or don't want.)

Is there really a variety of ways answers to your burning questions of the Office, and today I will show you toward them. But the thing is, people, you have these resources; You are here for you.

So, if you have ever beaten the you know what of the mouse frustrated me follow as I by my top five ways to get help - and then I'll pop in five more, because I can, and because they are available.

These pages are the connection to all that you want to know about the in ins and-outs for each Office program:

Help information, articles, tips & tricks and procedural help for multiple versions of Office ProgramsFree online training CoursesPodcasts, webcasts and DemosPricing

..... .and more. Get to know their support pages. You are your friends.

This is my favorite online forum where you with other Office users, experts can interact and get others, answer your questions, answer other questions, exchange ideas, and learn more about the Office products and technologies, you interest you. (My OneNote guru, Michael, wrote a great post about the Microsoft answers of use of.)

Sometimes it is on no simple question that which you need an answer; Perhaps, it is used as an entire program or a broad aspect of the programme. How about short, online training, covering everything from the very specific (how do you create a flowchart in PowerPoint), the very wide (color printing in Publisher)?

Are these online courses, self-paced, and they get the hands dirty you, by all of your Lieblings-(und_vielleicht_nicht-so-Favorit) really help Office applications as part of the course. There are exercises, a test (for mom's refrigerator, natch), and even a quick reference card for printing, if your memory is hidden.

Sometimes you do need those who really know what they're talking about only a little help from your friends. If you are for tips and ideas, or if you are troubleshooting, have already many capable friends to turn. You are ready to answer your most basic questions, as well as your most difficult. The Office MVPs are experts who have recognized by Microsoft for their helpfulness, depth of knowledge and passion for technology. And they speak to you in a language you can understand.  Capiche?

(Each year we sponsor a "MVP Summit" in the Office MVPs from around the world come to Redmond and share their experiences with us.) Beth Melton, a most valuable player Award winner, talks about their experiences at the Summit of 2010.)

Well of course I will bring the blogs; I am here. Go through the various blogs, the part of the Office family of blogs, casual such as Office in education, Office, and Microsoft OneNote are; You are with tips, tricks, informative (and still entertaining) video, newsy items, ideas, links to other resources, and much more.

My last 5, nice and fast:

When you press F1 when you are working in Office programs is like an Angel on your shoulder sit. An overhead view on a particular feature or lower, the exact how to find that you need before you your hair from ribs. When help can't help, it is you by other means, can lead.

Microsoft product support services  This is where you can read the article, you get in to a community of like-minded Microsoft users, read the latest support news and read the latest updates and other downloads.

Books   Some people like to have even a book in the hand when learning a new skill, while they are soaking in the tub. And truth be told, it is safer this way. (If you don't find a book you have there listed, try Amazon; that is, where I looked.)

Microsoft security and Security Center   Your access to security updates, free antivirus and anti-spyware products, a free malicious software tool to remove, and more.

Live Support   The best way, Microsoft customer service options to find telephone numbers and E-mail addresses is, visit the contact Microsoft homepage and read about what you can do it.

Third-party - support and solutions    These third-party support centers are usually pay-as-you-go types of offers and they can be infinitely useful. These companies are customer-oriented service and go through any kind of problem. Visit the Microsoft Office services, training & support center to find, that can work for you.

(I.e. okay, six; clubs would you?) I could do me; (all of these solutions can be useful depending on what you need.)

And finally a quote: "Complain, one that can help you." - Yugoslavian proverb

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Get free technical support for your Microsoft software

The Microsoft answers community is to make the best choice for questions and get free help and technical support for your Microsoft products - including Office, Windows, Internet Explorer, Windows phone, Zune, and security-essentials.

The product forums on the website Microsoft answers user experience one much easier than ever before. Clean layout and improved search functionality makes it easy for you to questions, issues and specific content for the Microsoft products you are looking for is the Web site. An improved Reputation system, which prominently recognize the most active and helpful beigesteuert is implemented on the website. Users, who provide the most helpful tips and answers for others, as also those members of the identification are recognized the best and most valuable information on the website on the home page.

When you first visit a forum for a specific product, you can start as the questions that other visitors have previously posted. Very often, someone else has already into something that allows you to be executed, and one answer or solution may already be available. In each forum can be filtered and in a variety of ways, such as "answered," "Unanswered," "Useful", and so on sorted. If your question or problem is not already listed, you can book a specific question in this forum.

The website almost half a million daily visitors include prominent members of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) community, Microsoft technical support professional, Microsoft employees from various product teams, technical enthusiasts from all over the world, and regular users, which their user community through the exchange of information with other users help enjoy.

If you have a response from a particular community member in the past has helped, you can easily all posts from that person to others see what else you can possibly learn from them. As well, if you find that this person is looking for an answer or solution itself, you can figures it forward all information and insights, you can have parts with them.

The site now give a try want? Here, the keyboard shortcuts for the U.S. are product forums:

If you live or work in another country, you can the region selection (in the vicinity of the upper-right corner of the homepage) before you begin with the website.

At present, free support is Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish in Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian.

Tip   Need help with the site itself, show that frequently asked questions.

Social networking we has to dramatically changed the manner in which with others interact. Whether you "like" something on Facebook or you book something on Twitter, tell to others, have most people the benefits our commitment in the close constant and positive information sharing how recognized. The way we help each other to find technical solutions and information designed to to.

Enter the next time you need support or have a question about your software, trying Microsoft answers . It's free, it's fast, and it is the best way, finding an expert, can help you by a binding.

--Michael C. Oldenburg

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DNG Converter PowerPC support ending

Over on the Lightroom Journal, PM Tom Hogarty reports that the recently posted DNG Converter 6.4 will be the last to support PowerPC Macs.

As Tom explains, although Photoshop CS5 & Lightroom 3, following Apple’s lead with Snow Leopard, no longer support PPC, the team has maintained support in the DNG Converter.  That way customers who couldn’t upgrade to CS5/LR3 could convert their files to be backward compatible.

Supporting aging systems comes at the expense of enhancing the apps for the future, and the overlap between people using the very latest, high-res SLRs together with 5+ year-old Macs has gotten small. Thus 6.4 will be the last PPC-compatible release of the converter.

Just to be clear, DNG files themselves are unaffected, so in the future you could use an Intel-based Mac (or a PC) to convert proprietary formats for use with PPC-based Macs.

Posted by John Nack at 9:27 AM on March 26, 2011

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