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44 Excel Blogs

According to my count, there are now 44 English language blogs that deal with Excel. You can view the list, and see the latest posts here: Excel Blog Headlines.

I also provide an OPML file that you can download.

What's an OPML file?

It's an XML file that contains feed details, and can be imported by most RSS aggregators. The net effect is that you can subscribe to all of these Excel blogs with just a few mouse clicks.

What's a RSS aggregator?

It's software that makes it very easy to keep up with dozens (or hundreds) of blogs. If you don't use an RSS aggregator, you really should. My favorite is Google Reader, a web-based aggregator (requires an account with Google).

To import these 44 Excel blog feeds (plus 20 additional feeds for the blogs that provide a comments feed) into Google Reader, first download the OPML file. Then navigate to Google Reader choose Manage Your Subscriptions, and then Import/Export. Browse for the OPML file, and the subscriptions will be added. Other RSS aggregators provide the same functionality.

- Reader Comments -

Following are comments in response to this item.
The most recent comment is at the bottom.

1. By Bill. Comment posted 31 January, 2010 6:43pm

   John,
   
   When I download the OPML file I get this message:
   
   This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
2. By John Walkenbach. Comment posted 31 January, 2010 6:49pm

   Bill, you need to right-click the link and save the file to your hard drive. Then import it into your RSS reader.
3. By Rick. Comment posted 08 February, 2010 7:19am

   Hi John (er... Mr. Walk),
   
   I'm becoming one of your new fans. Any chance you'll come up with an RSS reader in Excel? Or would that be written in Word?
   
   All the best, looking forward to your books for Excel 2010.
4. By John Walkenbach. Comment posted 08 February, 2010 7:51am

   Rick, I can't think of a single reason why anyone would want an RSS reader in Excel.
5. By ross. Comment posted 09 March, 2010 10:56am

   Colo written one in Excel, and accounding to this post at automate Excel you linked to it! ha it's a small world!
   http://www.automateexcel.com/2004/08/15/excel_mod_rss_reader_add_in/