Excel is a very versatile tool and is often used in ways that are hard to imagine. This blog post is a follow up of Joe's post "Unusual (but cool!) Uses of Excel" . I am going to show you how to use Excel for rapid application development using the new Office Art graphics Engine, ActiveX, Table Objects, VBA (Excel OM and ActiveX), and a touch of custom Ribbon code. The complete solution description will be split up over several posts, with the following topics covered in each:

Part 1

• Building UI using Office Graphics

Part 2

• Using ActiveX Controls
• Table Manipulation
• Data Analysis

Part 3

• Context Menus
• Ribbon UI

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