Generate invoice numbers in Excel

If you need a way to create invoices in Excel, you can use one of the many invoice templates on Office.com. While these templates are a great starting point, they don't automatically generate unique invoice numbers—you need a macro for that.

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Generate invoice numbers in Excel

Sample: Automating Chart Importation from Excel to an Email Message in Outlook 2010 (Visual How To)

Download a C# Outlook 2010 add-in that provides a custom user interface in Outlook for you to select and copy a chart from an Excel workbook to an email message in compose mode.

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Performance Improvements Coming Soon to a Service Pack Near You (Stephen Peters)

With the SP1 work winding down, I thought that I’d take a moment and discuss three new performance improvements that are going into VSTO for SP1.

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Performance Improvements Coming Soon to a Service Pack Near You (Stephen Peters)

Quick Note: Importing XML Data into a Mapped List in Excel 2010

Learn to import XML data into a list in Excel 2010, with and without a mapping schema.

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Quick Note: Importing XML Data into a Mapped List in Excel 2010

Quick Note (Scenario): Getting Started with Excel 2010 Extensibility

The goal of these exercises is to enable you to customize Microsoft Excel 2010 for your own applications. Each task addresses a particular scenario.

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Quick Note (Scenario): Getting Started with Excel 2010 Extensibility

Quick Note: Creating an XML Mapping Schema in Excel 2010

Learn to create and utilize Xml Mapping schemas in Excel 2010.

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New Excel Developer Roadmap on MSDN

This blog post is brought to you by Allison Bokone a technical writer for Excel. With the wide variety of solutions available for automating, customizing, and extending Excel, it can be hard to determine which technology to use.

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New Excel Developer Roadmap on MSDN

A New Center for Excel Developer on MSDN

I thought that I should notify readers of my blog that Microsoft recently has launched a new Excel Developer Center on MSDN.

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Sample: Creating and Publishing Excel 2010 Documents with Custom SharePoint 2010 Workflows

Explore the code as you learn to generate Excel spreadsheets inside SharePoint workflows and publish them to SharePoint sites.

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DataMarket Add-In for Excel (CTP1)

DataMarket Add-In for Excel is a free application that allows discovering and importing data from Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket into Microsoft Office Excel.

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DataMarket Add-In for Excel (CTP1)