   Microsoft Office 97 Intranet Product Enhancement Guide: New
            Features in Detail in Microsoft Excel 97

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New Features in Detail in Microsoft Excel 97

Web Form Wizard

Today, many Web pages use forms to collect user information. For
most spreadsheet users, creating an online form and retrieving
the information is difficult because it requires complicated
HTML code; and submitting information to a Web server is no
easier.

With the Web Form Wizard, Microsoft Excel 97 makes it easy for
users to submit information from a form created in Microsoft
Excel directly to a Web server. Once on the Web server,
administrators can retrieve the information regardless of their
operating system. Users now have an easy way to submit expense
reports, time cards, and similar forms to a Web server.

Support for HTML Tags

Microsoft Excel 97 introduces new HTML tags for spreadsheet
formatting, formulas, AutoFilters, and PivotTables to bring
Microsoft Excel functionality to HTML documents. Users viewing
these tags in incompatible browsers see the underlying data in a
simple HTML table. When opened in Microsoft Excel 97, however,
these tags are interpreted and bring an added layer of
functionality.

URLs in Formulas

Microsoft Excel makes it easy to connect to important data no
matter where it resides. Microsoft Excel users can create
formulas with links to a range of cells in a separate workbook.
This workbook can reside either on a desktop or on a corporate
network. Now Microsoft Excel extends this capability to a
workbook located on a Web server, so users can specify URLs in
their formulas.

Web Queries

Much of the data available on the Internet, such as financial
data, weather forecasts, and sports information, is dynamic and
changes frequently. As more data becomes available online, there
will be an increasing need for direct access to this data.

In Microsoft Excel 97, Internet data can be retrieved by running
queries that import specified data into a spreadsheet on a
regular basis. In addition, the imported data can be updated
regularly on the same worksheet and used for calculations or in
analysis.


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