Updated: July 10, 2020 (May 1, 2006)

Office 2007 Retires Web Controls

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Office 2007 will ship without the Office Web Components, ActiveX controls that enable users to view and chart data in Web pages. Office 2007 will also drop Web design features that use the controls. The controls will still be available, but administrators will have to deploy them to Office 2007 desktops, and developers might want to avoid the controls for new projects.

Data Exploration on the Web

Introduced in Office 2000, the Office Web Components enable users to access a subset of Excel functions in Internet Explorer (IE). (See the illustration “Office Web Components“.) Designed for interactive reporting and charting in Web applications, they enable users to see and graph data tables and make temporary changes to tables for “what-if” analysis.

The Web Components include four ActiveX controls:

A spreadsheet control, useful for delivering Web-based calculation models (e.g., mortgage calculators)
A PivotTable control for exploring multidimensional data tables
A chart control,

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