• Another day, another security flaw in Excel.

• There have been reports for another round of Excel attacks.

Microsoft has posted the a workaround for the disovery of the zero day vulnerability discovered in Excel last week.

Anil thinks Microsoft’s Office 2007 is the bravest update becuase the extreme change in the user interface.

Kiss goodbye to the File menu in Excel and say hello to the “ribbon”. I posted a comment on the blog wondering for keyboard short cuts will still work. Anil confirms with a “yes”.

Microsoft Excel 12 will introduce a new conditonal formatting feature called Data Bars. Data bars are graphical representation of the numbers within a cell; basically it looks like a bar graph behind the numbers in the cell. The data bars settings are found in Excel’s conditional formatting menu.

Data bars remind me of Edward Tufte’s sparklines.

David Gainer, the Group Program Manager for Microsoft Excel has a blog what will discuss the upcoming Excel 12. He says:

I am going to be writing about what’s new in Excel 12…I plan to write this blog from now until around the general availability of Office 12

In his first post, he tells us that E12 will have “1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns. That’s 1,500% more rows and 6,300% more columns than in Excel 2003”

How exciting! I look forward to reading his blog daily.