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homeofdarts on "Noticed some changes to Excel Web App that may need addressing"

homeofdarts — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:52:09 +0000

Excellent work and thanks very much. I knew you guys wouldn't let me down.
Cheers

jkudish on "Noticed some changes to Excel Web App that may need addressing"

jkudish — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:18:45 +0000

Hi homeofdarts,

I've fixed up the issue and posted an update here: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/embed-no-longer-working-for-excel-office-web-apps?replies=4#post-1062458

Cheers

homeofdarts on "Noticed some changes to Excel Web App that may need addressing"

homeofdarts — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:05:11 +0000

Hi, you may already know about this but just giving you a heads up in case you don't.

Microsoft are changing Office Live documents in SkyDrive to resemble the Metro interface, they have also started offering you the option to opt in to a preview of the new Office Web Apps. I currently embed spreadsheets into my WordPress site.

I decided to opt in and then found that any new items I went to embed simply didn't appear. I noticed that the url Microsoft provide you with for the preview has changed and no longer starts http://r.office.microsoft.com, but starts skydrive.live.com and I think WordPress doesn't know yet how to interpret it.

Giving you the heads up in case this becomes a wholesale change and all of a sudden WordPress user's can no longer embed documents/spread sheets etc.