Additionally, the ability to author OWC-based web pages is also being removed from Microsoft Office 2007 applications such as Microsoft Office ExcelÂ® 2007 and Microsoft Office Access 2007, and OWC will not ship with Microsoft Office SharePointÂ® Designer 2007, which is partially based on Microsoft Office FrontPageÂ® 2003. The version of OWC that shipped with the 2003 release of Microsoft Office will be the last revision to this technology.

Microsoft has shipped different versions of OWC in the last three releases of MicrosoftÂ® Office, including Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2000, however, the Office Web Components will not ship with the 2007 Microsoft Office system. The Office Web Components (OWC) are a set of ActiveXÂ® controls that provide four principal components: Spreadsheet, Chart, PivotTableÂ®, and Data Source Control (DSC). Here you go:Īs some of you have recently noticed, the Office Web Components are no longer installed when installing Microsoft Office 2007. Today, I wanted to post the official âroadmapâ from the Office Web Components team.

Since I have been writing this blog, I have periodically been asked âwhatâs up with the Office Web Componentsâ.

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