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This page links to the main papers and demonstrations I've published about Excelsior. I also have a repository of examples, which demonstrate Excelsior's ability to produce nicely formatted documentation from programs.
Spreadsheet Components For All. In Proceedings of EuSpRIG 2008, Greenwich, 10-11 July 2008. The presentation (the text of my talk) is Less Excel, More Components.
Spreadsheet Components, Google Spreadsheets, and Code Reuse. Blog posting, May 28 2008, for Dobbs Code Talk.
It Ain't What You View, But The Way That You View It: documenting spreadsheets with Excelsior, semantic wikis, and literate programming. In Proceedings of EuSpRIG 2007, Greenwich, 8-10 July 2007.
Rapid Spreadsheet Reshaping with Excelsior: multiple drastic changes to content and layout are easy when you represent enough structure. In Proceedings of EuSpRIG 2006, Cambridge, 7-9 July 2006. The presentation (the text of my talk) is How To Avoid Hours Of Tedious Spreadsheet Editing.
Excelsior: bringing the benefits of modularisation to Excel. In Proceedings of EuSpRIG 2005, Greenwich, 6-8 July 2005. The presentation is here.